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In reply to the discussion: Not so Modern Family: Top sitcoms make for sexist, inaccurate television [View all]redqueen
(115,103 posts)29. So... wait...
are you saying that if all the men are dopey or stupid, that it makes for boring tv?
I can think of a handful of tv shows about dopey stupid men that were fairly popular (Red Green, Trailer Park Boys, Jackass), but maybe a handful proves nothing?
Anyway, I guess I just don't watch enough sitcoms to know if the observations in this piece are completely accurate. It seems to have generated at least a sputtering start of a discussion though... and that, I like.
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Not so Modern Family: Top sitcoms make for sexist, inaccurate television [View all]
redqueen
Jan 2012
OP
ALL i have seen on modern family (didnt know til a poster told me it was that show, maybe family guy
seabeyond
Jan 2012
#8
I am watching it on DVD because I don't get much network TV, so I can't tell you.
cbayer
Jan 2012
#35
did anyone watch stewart last night about primetime tv. all the sodomy talk on all the shows. and
seabeyond
Jan 2012
#11
On The Big Bang Theory, the character 'Amy' is not 'undatable' she is in fact the romantic
Bluenorthwest
Jan 2012
#13
So you do not see the sexism in insisting that Amy, who dates the main character is
Bluenorthwest
Jan 2012
#33
I did not say she is a liar, at all. I said she misreports the facts. And she does.
Bluenorthwest
Jan 2012
#40
or you can not worry about it and the threads sink and swim depending on others interest
seabeyond
Jan 2012
#43