Tuesday, February 24, 2009

Dominant Pants: My Paper Topic.

This going to be a rather short blog explaining a possible topic for my upcoming English paper.

I have been starting to notice a common theme among TV. It is quite obvious and I'm sure that the entire TV watching population has also noticed, but i think it's worth bringing up.
It seems to be that in the TV universe all men are dumb, have no control over their relationships, and are submissive to their wives.
This has always annoyed me.
Sure i usually makes for funny shows, but it's so unoriginal. There seem to be only 2 TV dads that i can think of that somewhat had control of their families:
Cliff Huxtable and Al Bundy.
Every other TV dad is the same character. A slightly dumb, but quick witted average joe who's wife is way out of his league and she always has the upper hand (pants).
In fact, i believe that the term used in the industry is the Doofus Dad.
I think that we need to go back to the days of Ward Cleaver where the men were wise and authoritative.
Not every joke in a sitcom has to be at the dad's expense.
We need more creativity in today's television.

Is that a good topic?

1 comment:

  1. You need to make a comparison between two different media for this paper, so you'll have to compare images of men/dads on TV shows to images of men/dads in some other form of media (movies, music, websites, news, etc.). If you can find that second medium, I think this could work well.

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