[Obadiah]

I don’t recall seeing any modern TV commercial with the male figure as being strong and in charge.

Today’s commercials always show the woman in the driver’s seat of the car or in the lead of the family/couple situation. The male, especially a white male, is typically the wimp, the buffoon, or both. Even the male’s children are smarter than the adult male according to Madison Avenue.

Commercial after commercial and in all TV shows even the young female is always the hero or the focus of any attention or accolades. The male child is clearly portrayed as irrelevant and unimportant.

You don’t think this message has gotten through to all the males growing up?

And why is it, some 30 years on, that people STILL cluck their tongues if someone makes some joke or reference to a male being in some manner superior? Like it’s this unspoken societal rule that you must NEVER suggest a woman may be inferior in some way or in some capacity.

Amazing.

[Buckeye McFrog]

I don’t recall seeing any modern TV commercial with the male figure as being strong and in charge. Today’s commercials always show the woman in the driver’s seat of the car or in the lead of the family/couple situation. The male, especially a white male, is typically the wimp, the buffoon, or both. Even the male’s children are smarter than the adult male according to Madison Avenue

This is the reason Bob Newhart gives for why he has always refused to play a dad on TV. Cause he's always a moron, or a buffoon, or being shoved around by his wife and kids.

At one point the writers of The Bob Newhart Show presented him with a script in which Emily becomes pregnant. He read it and said "This is outstanding! Really excellent work! One of the funniest scripts you've ever done! I have just one question.....who you gonna get to play Bob?"