Where are the Heroes of Television?
I’m a huge advocate for equality between men and women but that doesn’t mean I think we should demean men to make women look better. Yet, the media is saturated with portrayals of dimwitted men dating, or married to, strong women. I’m referring to sitcoms like “According to Jim” and to commercials like the ones for Diet Pepsi where the man photocopies his butt, or wears a jacket from the 80’s. It seems to me that in the age of political correctness we have gone from making fun of the ethnic, of women and of the handicapped to ribbing the White Man, surely he can take one on the jaw for the sake of comedy.
But what are we teaching our kids? That white men are all morons? I don’t want my son growing up to admire men that dumb down to look cool, and I don’t want my girls to date and marry men with no ambition because they think intelligence is for geeks and losers.
And people wonder why women read romance novels; at least they’re guaranteed to contain a strong, intelligent and caring man with goals.
