TV shows (and ads) pretty much follow the same pattern these days:
1. The white heterosexual male is a blithering idiot; the pee-on. He’s good for involuntarily funding a society that hates his existence, though.
2. The person in charge is usually a woman or minority or a female minority combo package. The “mom” rules the roost; the “dad” is there to be the butt of jokes and ignored, except when “mom” wants to go buy shoes or the kids want $omething.
3. The token gay character represents the conscience/moral authority (what a f*cking joke) of the situation/show.
I stopped watching shows like Law and Order when show after show the bad guy was a White VietNam veteran.
Everybody [Micturates on] Raymond and King of [Not a Damn Thing] fit that formula. Useless lumps of guymeat -- I refuse to watch either show. Even now, whenever I see Patricia Heaton on TV in some other show, I get an instant "cold-on". What a hag, what a nasty little beastwoman. Women like her used to get shaken out early in life and wound up in convents or nunneries ("nunneries" in the Chaucerian sense, as in "get thee to a ...."). Or drudging some guy's slate floors and getting jumped on and rogered by his sons, and bearing bastard lordlings out in the barn.
Or did I miss something?