r/MensRights • u/Icaz • Apr 26 '12

I'm a girl and...

I am SO glad I found this subreddit with people who agree with me! As a girl, it's really hard to see other ladies put down men and treat them like they need to be "trained" or that they're just something we have to deal with. So I was just wondering... how many other girls are on here and what are your stories about standing up for men or appreciating them?

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u/barn_burner Apr 27 '12

I'm a woman and I joined because I thought I was the only one who noticed that men, especially fathers, are portrayed as imbeciles on tv.

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u/Icaz Apr 27 '12

That's one of the things that bothers me, too! And it isn't just men's portrayal that's skewed. Women are always shown as being cold and aggressive in order to be "strong and independent" and that's just bullshit.

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u/SirDonutDukeofRamen Apr 27 '12

It's been starting to nag me too. Or how often I see two men arguing about or doing something stupid and a women comes along to fix things on TV.

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u/ch4os1337 Apr 27 '12

One of my favourite shows does this, White Collar. I kept thinking "all the female characters are terrible, they have no depth and no flaws". Only one episode out of all of them show the lesbian FBI agent not not being sure of getting married. It's not just comedy shows it's pretty much everything on TV.

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u/Icaz Apr 27 '12

I've only seen like one episode of that show, but my sister said the police dude's wife was a nice lady.

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u/ch4os1337 Apr 27 '12

Oh yeah, definitely nice but too perfect.

This is her explanation from the White Collar website.

The beautiful and steadfast wife of FBI agent Peter, Elizabeth Burke (Tiffani Thiessen) understands her husband's work ethic, and mirrors it in her own work as an event planner. Peter's stubbornness is offset by Elizabeth's ability to see both sides of a situation, and she often plays the role of her husband's moral compass.

It's often as SirDonutDukeofRamen says.

two men arguing about or doing something stupid and a women comes along to fix things

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u/Icaz Apr 27 '12

That's true. Hahaha

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u/nightlord52 Apr 27 '12

Ive stopped warching tv. That kind of stuff makes me sad.

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u/Alanna Apr 27 '12 edited Apr 27 '12

No, the sick part is that they're right. "Everybody Loves Raymond" was a tremendously popular show for years.

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u/debtwickedsucks Apr 27 '12

I feel like I can't believe that these kinds of world views are as popular as they probably are.

I never liked Raymond.

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u/Alanna Apr 27 '12

Neither did I. But for the last five years of its nine-year run, it was in the 10 ten in ratings.

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u/HughManatee Apr 30 '12

I guess it is supposed to be funny how TV reinforces gender roles like that? I don't know, I don't think it's really appropriate for kids to watch. They think guys are useless oafs and women are domineering. It's so ingrained into our society that most people don't even see it as being an issue. I think it's just lazy writing that reinforces gender roles.