[reagan_fanatic]

Most TV shows and TV commercials have this same reinforced image: Fat, slobby, and stupid white male versus a) A hot, shapely, smarter and wiser wife who clearly is the leader although her too macho-dumb spouse doesn't get it; or, b) Smart kids who easily outwit the dimwit and slobby dad.

Exactly. What's funny is that I'll point out examples like this to my Wife or my Sisters and they will honestly tell me they never saw them that way.

I find it very instructive to pay attention to the commercials on at night and make note of how many portray white guys as uniformly fat, balding, clueless and stupid as opposed to the uniformly smart women who have it all together in spite of their knuckle dragging Neanderthal husbands.

Thanks for the crude stereotyping, Madison Avenue.

[HamiltonJay]

Frankly,

That's fine by me, portray me as slow witted, dim and othewise a moron... you'll still make your rent check out to me every month... Who's the fool now?