Men deserve equal footing in sitcom land
by Chris Taylor, editor-in-chief

    Attention all men. We are at war.

    I have stumbled across a female conspiracy to brainwash men. I never paid it much thought until I was watching television one day.
    I noticed that the men in most sitcoms are bumbling, ignorant buffoons. Even in dramas, men are made to be weak and sensitive while the women are the strong, unwavering characters who deal with all turmoil without panic.

    Another thing that bothers me is that anytime a male in a television show isn’t a typical chauvinist pig that is always wrong, he’s usually an obsessively neat gay guy.

    Think about it for a minute. On the show Roseanne, Roseanne is always the leader of the family while husband Dan is a lazy, ignorant beer-swilling slob.

    That’s only one incident, you say. What about Home Improvement? On that show Tim Taylor grunts like a pig. He acts like he is overdosed on testosterone and always blows things up. When he and his wife, Jill, argue, he is always wrong. And even when he is right, he still is partly to blame.

    How long do we allow these stereotypes to go on? If all women were portrayed on television as bubble-headed, gold digging feminists with no heart, then protests would erupt everywhere.

    Could a woman on television be portrayed to be as stupid as Homer Simpson is? Probably not.

    There’s nothing wrong with being pro-woman, but the problem is the energy has become more anti-man than anything else.

    I’m a little tired of hearing how I’ve oppressed women and how the pendulum has now swung the other direction.

    Number one, I’ve never denied anyone the right to vote, nor would I. Number two, I don’t think we should use a pendulum to describe how we treat each other.

    First of all, treatment will probably always be unfair in one direction, and that means you’re always going to have unhappy people.

    Second, I never got to enjoy having the pendulum in my direction, so it’s really easy to use that phrase when you’re on the good end of the spectrum.

    Third, I don’t understand why we can’t be proud of who we are without accusations of being against someone else.