...and flipped on the TV. I normally watch shows on HGTV, but they're visual in nature, which would only serve to distract me while doing dishes. So I flipped it to TLC -- Jon & Kate, Plus 8.
Okay, lots of cute kids, busy family....snarky wife. I was appalled by Kate's total disrespect for her husband. But then she'd laugh, and that made it okay, right? No.
So I switched to abcFamily. abcFAMILY. So why, then, was the primetime show talking about vibrators? Really? Is that appropriate for a family? Then, the following show was just a mess of indiscrepencies and loose morals.
Okay, okay. Our society isn't so "uptight" as to relate to Leave it to Beaver anymore. But I stand by my convictions, and I stand by the fact that television should not be encouraging these false, skewed, and disturbing ideals.
Next time I guess I'll just turn on the radio.
I had a talk about this kind of stuff a couple of weeks ago, I think (the whole TV characterization of fathers/males in general as a bunch of bumbling buffoons, and their wives as the smart ones, but oh, not so smart as the children. Yeah, that makes lots of sense, because smart and intelligent children could have come from an environment where the parents are a pair of idiots just trying to make it in the world. Nurture means noting eh? Good lessons to learn there...). abcFamily has gone down the tubes as well...the shows they have on there are a huge joke and whatever mission statement the station had was flushed years ago.
ReplyDeleteMost of what I see with the guys is that they're portrayed as distant and disinterested. On Jon & Kate Plus 8, there was this whole montage with the mom telling her kids repeatedly to go away because she was working hard at something. The few shots of the dad were of him talking or lounging or thinking. I suppose it's a product of our feminist society, but it puts the mom up as the victim, and that irritates me too.
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