A Discourse On The Current Views Of MarriageAndRelationships
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To be more specific, for the thread title will only allow me so many characters, I wish to initiate a conversation on a rather disturbing theme I have noticed in North American media.
Recently I have been watching the TV sitcom Scrubs and I noticed very often that the female characters on the on the show would often browbeat, demean, and insult the male characters on the show in a harsh and unwarranted manner. This is particularly the case when the male and female in question are dating or married.
This lead to the realization that in many television shows, movies and other media, particularly comedies, men are depicted as unintelligent, childish, lecherous, irresponsible, etc, while women are depicted as irrational, over-emotional, cruel, and for lack of a better word, bitchy.
If a man is in a relationship with a woman he will he will try to hide his actions from his wife, such as checking out a beautiful woman that walks by and if discovered the wife flies into a rage and the man cowers from her as though he were a child. Also a man in these television shows might want to do something like go fishing or play poker with his friends but he mus meekly ask his wife for permission before he does so. And if said man ever has a disagreement with his wife or without meaning to upsets her, she will punish him by doing things such as withholding sex until he apologizes. It is rather disturbing to see this because the man seems to act towards his wife or girlfriend as though she were some sort of tyrannical mother and she to him as though he were an exceptionally trying son.
I do realize of course that this is only a work of fiction, and a comedy at that, however I can not help but wonder if it is indicative of a real trend in today's society? Do people today believe that men are supposed to behave like irresponsible, browbeaten children in their relationships with women? That women must be irrational, angry and jealous shrews in their relationships with men? How on Earth, and why, could such perceptions, if they truly exist, have come to be?
Recently I have been watching the TV sitcom Scrubs and I noticed very often that the female characters on the on the show would often browbeat, demean, and insult the male characters on the show in a harsh and unwarranted manner. This is particularly the case when the male and female in question are dating or married.
This lead to the realization that in many television shows, movies and other media, particularly comedies, men are depicted as unintelligent, childish, lecherous, irresponsible, etc, while women are depicted as irrational, over-emotional, cruel, and for lack of a better word, bitchy.
If a man is in a relationship with a woman he will he will try to hide his actions from his wife, such as checking out a beautiful woman that walks by and if discovered the wife flies into a rage and the man cowers from her as though he were a child. Also a man in these television shows might want to do something like go fishing or play poker with his friends but he mus meekly ask his wife for permission before he does so. And if said man ever has a disagreement with his wife or without meaning to upsets her, she will punish him by doing things such as withholding sex until he apologizes. It is rather disturbing to see this because the man seems to act towards his wife or girlfriend as though she were some sort of tyrannical mother and she to him as though he were an exceptionally trying son.
I do realize of course that this is only a work of fiction, and a comedy at that, however I can not help but wonder if it is indicative of a real trend in today's society? Do people today believe that men are supposed to behave like irresponsible, browbeaten children in their relationships with women? That women must be irrational, angry and jealous shrews in their relationships with men? How on Earth, and why, could such perceptions, if they truly exist, have come to be?
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Takerial
Lovable Teddy Bear
I was going to read what you posted.
But then I saw you posted videos from a comedy show and just shook my head instead.
But then I saw you posted videos from a comedy show and just shook my head instead.
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As you said, it is comedy, it does it magic by working with stereotypes and magnifies characteristics that are labeled as masculine or feminine to ridiculous heights. I doubt there is any risk of life turning out as it does in these TV-shows. You are supposed to laugh at it and not take it seriously.
Then of course, these gender roles exists today, just as they have always existed, and is pretty much what the discussion of gender equality is all about; how men and women are forced into already decided roles of society. You would be blind not to realize that what the comedy shows are doing is in fact showing off these gender roles in a much more obvious way.
Then of course, these gender roles exists today, just as they have always existed, and is pretty much what the discussion of gender equality is all about; how men and women are forced into already decided roles of society. You would be blind not to realize that what the comedy shows are doing is in fact showing off these gender roles in a much more obvious way.
