Heck, it's not as obvious as a slap on the face even... I don't know which is worse, the woman slapping a man and being considered "cute" over it... or entire sitcom sdevoted to proving that the man of the family is a socially inept fool who is incompetent with kids and needs to be treated like a child in front of his own children (Everybody loves Raymond)... in ONE episode the man looked at what this was doing to the kids, and was upset with it, but in general, the whole plot was devoted to him being the brunt of jokes from everyone else who were all so much more clever than him.
I want to see a sitcom where the guy is a REAL dad, COMPETENT and treated as if he's competent, where he refuses to allow people to treat him like a fool. Last one I remember like that was Cosby... and that ended in 1992... a whole generation ago. But heck, weren't there even times on that show where his lawyer-wife gave him the EYE and basically informed him that he was not right about this, that or the other thing? I guess that's realistic though in that none of us are perfect... but on that show, wasn't she portrayed as perfect?
I guess that's the problem... no matter how right a guy is, the gal is always MORE right, according to the media. GRRR.
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