By Daniel MartinezEmasculated TV
Contrary to pop-culture, most men should be strong, dominant, masculine, mature, and the supporter of their family. But society today wants a softer, more feminized male who’s sensitive to women and their feelings, almost to the point that they’re women with peni… ‘Y’ chromosomes. We see this emasculation mostly in our schools, the mainstream media, advertising, and especially on sitcom TV shows.
Most sitcoms that I’ve noticed represent men as immature, weak, whiny, lazy, stupid kids who need a woman to do everything for them. The women are portrayed as the only characters capable of being strong who have to battle the antics of the childish males who can’t do anything without the help of a woman. And although the man might make money, it’s the woman who’s the breadwinner because it’s politically incorrect to say that men can wear the pants in a relationship.
Example, “Everybody Loves Raymond”. The character Raymond (played by Ray Romano) is a selfish, lazy, golf crazed sports fanatic who doesn’t help out in the home and is the biggest pansy when it comes to his relationship with his wife and mother. Though he’s always getting into trouble, in real life his wife would have divorced his sorry ass years ago, but for comedy’s sake, their marriage has lasted many seasons. What keeps this Freudian nightmare going season after season is his over-bearing, intrusive mother with who he has a hard time setting boundaries. The mother hates the wife so she is always sabotaging their marriage because Raymond doesn’t have the courage to stand up against his mother. Raymond is the worst male on TV that I’ve seen! I would love to kick him in the balls just to see if he has any. But instead, show after show, he makes some stupid excuse for his mother’s actions and makes his wife really mad. Hahahaha, the audience gets a good laugh and it’s over. Now in real life, is Ray Romano like that? I have no idea. But on the show he seems to have no problem making people think that he’s an incompetent pansy. Sure, there are things married people can relate to, but it’d be sad if someone could relate to everything on that show. If I were Raymond’s character I’d tell the mom off and to not come over at all if she doesn’t show any respect. That’s what he should have done in the first episode but I doubt they’d then get any ratings. Emasculating men gets the ratings. But ‘Ray’ is just a small example of what is on primetime TV.
What concerns me the most about this trend in sitcom mania is the message it’s sending to the boys of today. That message is that it’s ok to act immature, lazy, and whiny. My parents raised me to be a self-sufficient, mature, smart, hard working Man, everything that’s opposite of these characters. To show a vast majority of male characters as incompetent is a spit in the eye to men all over.
Now for the critics out there, I’m not saying that there should be shows promoting the abuse of women by the male characters. That’s far from it. What I’m saying is that we need to see more strong male characters who supports the family without whining and without being walked all over by a female and does what he has to do because that’s what men do! Boys without a father figure in their home subconsciously learn some of their male habits from TV. So when there is a lack of strong male role models on the shows they watch, they might grow up with the wrong idea of how real men act.
Shows like this today are the products of the extreme feminist movement where their goal has been to emasculate men and have found a great media in sitcoms. This has brought up a society that finds nothing wrong with emasculating men for laughs. What I would like to see done is for producers to create more shows that present men and women as equals in a relationship and not be one sided. I think the Cosby show was great at that. Both the husband and wife had their strengths and weaknesses and yet neither exploited nor put down each other. We need more shows that don’t take a bias but show men as men and women as women utilizing their strengths.