This has been a bit of a pet peeve of mine for a couple of decades now. You turn on an American Sitcom, and you see a fairly intelligent wife, and the husband, in order to be intelligent has to be a liberal "intellectual" (I laugh, and I fart in their general direction), or the husband is often overweight, big on football and dumb. Plainly said, that's been the truth. With "Home Improvement" in the 90s it was funny. Tim Allen as Tim Taylor was hilarious. Fast forward, and you have "King of Queens", "Family Guy", and various other cock-and-bull shows with the same premise, dumb man and smart wife. It's old, Hollywood. I'm a fairly conservative person, and I'm in the top 2% for IQ.
Shows I like are ones like "NCIS", where the characters run all stripes. Not all Muslims are terrorists, not all terrorists are Middle Eastern, and everyone's intelligence runs the gamut. The blatant politicizing is what gets me, how all the intelligent males in a lot of modern entertainment are far left.
"Family Guy" has gone way over the edge in this regard. I can't stand to watch it anymore. Every time I turn around, the show is making blatant fun of "Red" states, Conservative Personalities, and religion. "South Park" goes over the top sometimes, and is definitely not for children, but at least they play fair, and everyone gets their fair share of being made fun of.
Guys like Jon Stewart and Glenn Beck, I can handle. Yes, their views are to the extreme, but you know that going in. It's their job to give you their opinions and political views. You turn on CNN, you know you're getting a more liberal bent. FOX News favors a conservative view. That is well known. When I turn on TV to prime time television and sitcoms, I want to be entertained. I don't want the shows' creators' political views crammed down my throat. And I don't want to see how women are "so much smarter than men, unless men are liberals". Period. I want a gamut of characters. If I see a History Professor, I want to see an intelligent man or woman, who may be a little conservative or liberal, who's views are based on actual history, not on the predilections of the show's creator. Let the art teacher be liberal. Or maybe a conservative even. It's possible. Political debates and opinion shows are the place for politics. Sitcoms and dramas are the place for non biased entertainment.
Shows I like are ones like "NCIS", where the characters run all stripes. Not all Muslims are terrorists, not all terrorists are Middle Eastern, and everyone's intelligence runs the gamut. The blatant politicizing is what gets me, how all the intelligent males in a lot of modern entertainment are far left.
"Family Guy" has gone way over the edge in this regard. I can't stand to watch it anymore. Every time I turn around, the show is making blatant fun of "Red" states, Conservative Personalities, and religion. "South Park" goes over the top sometimes, and is definitely not for children, but at least they play fair, and everyone gets their fair share of being made fun of.
Guys like Jon Stewart and Glenn Beck, I can handle. Yes, their views are to the extreme, but you know that going in. It's their job to give you their opinions and political views. You turn on CNN, you know you're getting a more liberal bent. FOX News favors a conservative view. That is well known. When I turn on TV to prime time television and sitcoms, I want to be entertained. I don't want the shows' creators' political views crammed down my throat. And I don't want to see how women are "so much smarter than men, unless men are liberals". Period. I want a gamut of characters. If I see a History Professor, I want to see an intelligent man or woman, who may be a little conservative or liberal, who's views are based on actual history, not on the predilections of the show's creator. Let the art teacher be liberal. Or maybe a conservative even. It's possible. Political debates and opinion shows are the place for politics. Sitcoms and dramas are the place for non biased entertainment.
Agreed, Both men and women can be highly intelligent, work good paying jobs and be honest good family guys. Family guy, the show is the biggest joke of a disgrace of a man!! he only thing I like about that show is that Lois Is extended breastfeeding Stewie (but of course I would like that) Judging people before you meet them is unfortunately part of human nature, you see a fat person and assume they over eat because they want to. When in reality food is a drug to them and the act of eating is as addicting as heroin, only a heroin addict can not do the drug and will live a food addict cannot not eat and live (this is actually proven science)
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