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 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.
I’ve never seen sex in the city. I assume you mean the idea of them just having a bunch of sex and not getting married? I dont care for that either.
No they didn’t. I remember hearing someone describe the A-Team as the last show purely for guys. I’m also finding myself enjoying shows that I laughed at my grandmother for watching like Little House on the Prairie or The Waltons
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.