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He's got a sausage on a fork and his wife has a cell phone. OH WOW. STOP THE PRESS. I think you're reading too much into this one, chief.
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by Anonymous User on Tuesday September 03, @07:37AM EST (#2)
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I kind of agree. Seeing this posted as a comment somewhere would be fine, but placing it as a main story is stretching things a bit. We don't have any proof yet that the show is humor-at-the-expense-of-males, though this form of sitcom is reaching its peak.
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Well, the Disney company got itself in a lot of hot water because of the subliminal, sexual messages hidden in the clouds and the backdrops of some of its most favored animated features. So I wouldn't be a bit surprised to find that the person who composed this photograph DID have something subliminal in mind. But the kick in the groin shot is enough to turn me away from watching this show. One show I want to see more of before I make a call is the new show featuring John Ritter. The ads seem to show a father expressing a little authority around the house. It remains to be seen if he is left with his package intact, or if the writers and producers allow his wife and daughters to castrate him, as they usually do.
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by Anonymous User on Tuesday September 03, @07:52AM EST (#4)
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This story does belong here. It's very obvious that this show will be the typical man/father=idiot; wife/woman/mother=smart type of show like all the others out there.
and then society has the nerve to complain about bad fathers, that's all boys see on tv, not a surprise that they become bad fathers when they do, which they don't always.
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I agree. The story is valid and should be here. If the item on the knife had even remotely looked like a women's breast, it wouldn't have got on air and even if it did it would have been attacked throughout the media/talk shows immediately. The trailer happily shows the man being hit in the crutch with a baseball, and later repeats the sequence. I've seen enough to suggest that whoever composed the photograph chose the sausage not unlike a severed penis quite deliberately. Any number of items other than that could have been chosen from a barbecue assuming that is what is applied (hamburger, steak or even a complete sausage). In any case why is a barbecue indicated? Is it important to the plot or is it, as is more likely, just a gratuitous addition. There is no other reason that I can see. In other words the real reason for the photo is the deliberate implication of the severed penis.
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One further thought. This is billed as an "off center comedy". The photo is meant to be funny. No naive interpretation of the photo would be funny. Anyone want to place a bet that the men in this show don't come off worse than the women?
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by Anonymous User on Tuesday September 03, @01:12PM EST (#7)
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I was going to submit this as a news story too.
When I first saw the previews to "Hidden hills", I thought, "Oh, great, here's ANOTHER anti-male sit-com." The preview was the one where the guy gets hit in the groin with the baseball. (Gee, how ORIGIONAL. ...Never seen THAT done before.)
Anyway I wanted to do some "research" on this show before I submitted it to MANN, but Ahhkaboom beat me to it.(^-^) However near as I can tell from what little info I could find on this show, it IS INDEED your typical; "Men are too stupid to live", "Women are omnipotent gods" sit-coms.
So YES Ahhkaboom's post DOES belong here.
And we should monitor this show closely.
Also, we should be on our gaurd in GENERAL, regarding this new TV season. Although I can't be toataly certain, This season may well be one of the most ANTI-MALE to date.
...I have enough aggrevation...
Thundercloud.
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The sausage has been cut and presented to resemble an erect penis. There is no way ad people would do this be accident or not consider the symbolism. This is their daily bread and butter.
The juxtaposition with the man in pain clutching his groin on the main page under the title "SPECIAL FEATURES" makes it even more obvious. Once again there is no way ad people would just "innocently" do this.
If you still don't believe me take a look at the image in the page you get when you follow the ABOUT link to the left. You may notice the sausage has been touched up a little to make it a little more "knobby" at the left hand end. They have also done some shenanigans in the HTML on this page to make it harder to "save image".
cheers,
sd
Those who like this sort of thing
will find this the sort of thing they like.
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I agree. There are also 2 or 3 more variations on the picture under "Photos", including one that has her on the left, still with mobile, and him on the right, still with cut sausage. Clearly they felt it important in order to show 3 or 4 versions of it. This picture is the central to this show, not an accident.
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The promotional images also play the race game. Anyone who thinks that promotional pictures like these are just the result of lining the cast up haphazardly for a few "happy snaps" can stop reading here.
The white male looks anxious or foolish in almost every image, whereas the black male looks relaxed and confident. The black male touches the black female with obvious and possessive embraces which the black female accepts with pleasure; the white male hardly touches the white female, who usually wears a look of amused superiority, as though his affections were merely tolerated, not reciprocated.
One image illustrates this. Both males are sandwiched between two females, but what a contrast! The white male looks nervous and is half-turned away from the viewer, as if seeking support from the white woman to his left, who has a slightly pained expression. The black male faces the viewer directly with his arms sprawled over both women, a big cheesy grin on his face and a big bulge in his pants (this bulge discrepancy is consistent across all pictures of the two males).
This contrast in representations of the two males is unsurprising. The white male is symbolically castrated in the main promo image, and this theme of white male inadequacy is continued through the other images. This is a popular social stereotype that in this case is dovetailed with the stereotype of the "black stud".
The producers have been careful to pander to the anti-white-male prejudices of both white females and black males.
cheers,
sd
Those who like this sort of thing
will find this the sort of thing they like.
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After watching the video ad for the show at the weblink you provided I noticed that it both begins and ends with this man being hit in the testicles with a line drive. The whole thing is the only actual joke they have, provided you believe this even qualifies as a joke at all. Basically this show is about nothing else but men's balls and how funny NBC thinks it is to crush them. So here is my letter that I sent to the hiddenhills email address they so graciously provided:
"Your new show, Hidden Hills, isn't even on the air yet and already you have an ad that shows it to be the most sexist misandric shit you have ever had on your worthless, irrelevant network. I'm glad you are losing viewers faster than the Titanic lost passengers. If sexual abuse of males is your idea of entertainment then you deserve to be a bunch of unemployed assholes wandering the streets of New York without a clue as to why no one wants to watch your shit.
Fuck you!
Was that subtle enough for you?
Very Sincerely,
SJones"
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by Anonymous User on Thursday September 05, @01:10AM EST (#12)
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SJones.
Good letter.
I don't know if you or anyone else here remembers the show "MEN BEHAVING BADLY".
It TOO ran on NBC.
Up to now THAT was the worst anti-male show NBC had run. It actualy lasted a season and a half. (Go figure.) but it fell flat, never the less.
Apearantly, they just NEVER learn.
That or the success or failure of such shows is not as important to them as perpetuating a particular "political" and\or "social" message.
Despite the fact that MOST anti-male shows fail, they just KEEP crankin' them out.
'really makes one wonder if there is MORE to this than meets the eye...,
Thundercloud.
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