I finally finished Mayans MC (spin-off of Sons of Anarchy) and in the second to last episode the main character has an accident and Jax Teller’s ex is the one to give him a ride to get help. In the car she says that men have it so easy because they can beat their chests and act like kids well into adulthood but women are the ones who really have it rough. Of course the main character offered no pushback. But hey I’m sure all the construction workers, miners, sewer workers, military, police, first responders, firefighters, farmers, etc. can rest easy knowing they have it easy.
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I've been watching through the mid-'90s revival of The Outer Limits. I'm on season 5 I think. The first few seasons were mostly just cheesy low-budget sci-fi except for one in season one that was specifically "men are bad and preventing women from reaching their magical potential" garbage.
I'd estimate that half of the episodes in this season have had either an abusive father/husband that's a character in the story or mentioned in the story. In some cases, it has no actual bearing on the story. There have been zero abusive mothers/wives (except for a robot ... sort of). There have been multiple stories with alien/human contact where the overreacting men end up starting a war over the objections of the brave, understanding woman.
One S5 episode had a post-apocalyptic commune where all men had been wiped out by a virus, and a military dude gets out of cryogenic storage and arrives at the commune. 10 minutes in I wanted to bail because I figured "this is just an entire men bad" episode, but there were multiple potential story threads (women were jealous of each other over his attention, another commune forces rationing and taking food, he's shown to be helpful to the commune despite the old cunt's admonitions of "women create, men only destroy!", etc.) but at the end none of those get resolved. The other commune attacks him because he's trying to restore power to his commune. He defends himself (and accidentally kills his allies in the process because of course) and then has to be put back in cryogenic storage because "man bad."
I did bail on two of like the last 3 episodes I started: the first was about a woman (abusive father, husband was revealed to be abusive and also impotent because of course) in a fertility clinic who was given a clone of Jesus to carry. I bailed when the female fertility doctor started lecturing the (abusive) male pastor/geneticist (yep!) about how she now had proof that Jesus was just a telekinetic dude (stupid Christian, you're worshipping a genetic freak, not the son of god! Ha!) Two episodes later opened in a WW2 concentration camp with the evil Nazis gleefully killing their prisoners, and then cut to the present where some dude appears to be hunting down said Nazis. I bailed there because I'm not interested in watching Jewish revenge porn in my sci fi.
This shit has been going on for decades. Back in the early/mid '90s I always just thought to myself, "well the bad guy has to be a white man because everybody else would throw a fit about negative stereotypes and besides, men are pretty abusive, right?" But no, it's actual malice towards specifically white people and even more specifically white men, and no, men are not significantly different than women when it comes to abuse.
I liked the 90s Outer Limits for the most part. I guess since I wasn’t hearing about that stuff constantly I didn’t notice. It wasn’t until the 2000s did I realize the “white man bad” push going on but looking back I can definitely remember feminist messaging as well. Although the Jesus episode you refer to doesn’t surprise me. I do remember that being something I would’ve rolled my eyes at.
Fringe, Stargate, all those cop shows with female side kicks. Nineties entertainment chronicled the introduction of females occupying roles in male dominated professions: cops, firefighters, first responders, doctors, lawyers, etc.
Ally McBeal captured the zeitgeist of that time period and foretold what was going to happen in the decades to come, including the cringe trender mania, single childless ladies, feminist chauvinism, strained gender politics in the work place, etc.
Another show was 'Sex In The City'.
I just saw Sex in the City as something marketed to women which is fine as long as you can market stuff to men. Like when I was a kid my dad watched A-Team and Magnum PI. Those are definitely shows that appeal to a male audience. I’m actually watching Stargate. Just finished first season
Sex in the City sold a lifestyle to women and the author has since regretted certain aspects as it, e.g. being childless. Don't recall The A-Team or Magnum P.I. selling a lifestyle.
Both shows didn't have the nu-females involved, by the way.
Yeah, I didn't watch it regularly but it was something I'd catch occasionally and I like low-budget sci-fi.
The race stuff has mostly been a non-issue; in fact, the few episodes that feature non-white people haven't played up race at all, except for the standard "diversity writing" where you know who will be the sympathetic/correct characters just by the color of their skin. In fact, one of the reasons I kept watching the commune episode was because there was an interracial lesbian relationship that looked like it was headed in the direction of the black chick being overly possessive and the antagonist of the episode. Instead I'm pretty sure she was one of the ones that ended up dying due to The Bad Man's ineptitude.
Ok now I’m starting to remember that episode. Turns out the lady had been in a relationship with that guy or something? I remember there was some sort of twist with the founder of the commune
Good memory, yeah. The old "men only destroy" woman had been the girlfriend of the frozen guy 40 years earlier, even still carrying a locket with his picture.
Which just made me think, "wow, how awful was she that he'd have been willing to ditch her for an experimental cryogenic freezing process?" I'm pretty sure that's not what the authors expected me to take away from the story though.
There was an episode in that series that highlighted stupid women and men that simp for them.
It's after a nuclear apocalypse and they are military officers in bunkers. The girl is in her bunker, and there's two dudes in another bunker. I think the girl had a crewmate that went outside where the radiation is supposedly lethal and that's why she's alone. One of the two dudes develops feelings for the girl over their radio chats.
The girl can swear she hears living people outside and ignores the two guys warnings and leaves her bunker. They hear screaming and the radio cuts off.
Pretty soon the girl shows up outside of the guys bunker (which is miles away) and convinces the guy who is simping for her to open the door and go outside. The other dude tries to stop him and immediately slams door shut behind him to protect himself.
Turns out all the "survivors" are some kind of vampire, and the girl and her simp buddy are turned. The episode ends with the last human guy in his bunker and his former crewmate is trying every code on the door starting with 0001. He tells the last human that he's got infinite time to keep trying until he gets in and you see the human guy sink down in his chair because he knows the vampire is right.
Telekinesis was never a power I noticed attributed to Jesus. The closest thing I remember is the rock on Jesus' tomb moving, but I always figured that was attributed to God, at that point, to the extent that that distinction matters. God definitely has telekinesis attributed to him at various points in the Bible. Though, since he's not corporeal, we probably don't think about it like that.
The story (spoilers!) was basically that some sort of telekinetic ability was allowing the unborn Jesus clone to manipulate objects around his mom, and that it was somehow genetic (that nobody outside of Jesus had before or since ... writers really don't understand evolution), therefore not supernatural/god.
Ignoring the fact that telekinesis would be a supernatural ability to begin with, which could have just as easily been granted by a god. And yeah, it really doesn't make much sense because Jesus wasn't moving things around with his mind in the Bible to my knowledge.
I really thought the spoilers were going to be for the biblical account, lol
I'm not even sure if self levitation (walking on water) is telekinesis. This is the kind of shit that bothers me.