Perhaps it makes me humorless, but I never liked M*A*S*H even as child, mostly because of my visceral disgust for crossdressing. Sad to think that even all those years ago, entertainment media were hard at work trying to get Americans to accept perversion in the armed forces.
I don’t think they were trying to get it accepted. It was a joke about a guy that would do anything to get out of the army, even dress as a woman so he could get a section 8 discharge. In those days it was so unexceptable and uncommon as to make it funny.
Today the joke would be lost on a society being trained to accept such things as normal. Words like homophobia are thrown around in an attempt to make you feel guilty and accept such evil as being a normal part of society. It really is sad.
Hogan's Heroes also had considerable crossdressing scenes.
Oh come on. Relax. Klinger in M*A*S*H wasn’t about perversion. In fact, in one episode when he was offered a Section 8 if he admitted he was a homosexual, he adamantly refused. Klinger was just a guy trying to get out of the army. Don’t try to make it more than it was.
Neither did I, although I was a little older and wiser. The cross dresser bothered me less than all the smarmy political comments from Alan Alda. He was an annoying little prick and never as funny as he imagined himself to be.
“...I never liked M*A*S*H even as child, mostly because of my visceral disgust for crossdressing.”
So you’ve never watched a Bugs Bunny cartoon either? Bugs was quite a crossdresser in his early days.