Male Bashing on Television

Jack Thomas, Jr. writes "I am so pleased to see a web site dedicated to men fighting back in a society gone berserk under the guise of "feminism" and "women's rights".



I am becoming more and more distressed each day as I witness the continuous, blatant and unrelenting bashing and discarding of men, especially white men, on television. It is very obvious on sitcoms and tabloid/talk shows, but I think it is the worst on commercials. I suppose that it is because they only have 60 seconds to complete their task, which is to make a guy look foolish, inane, and lacking intelligence and to completely destroy his self-respect and image as the head of the household.



The vast majority of television commercials now have a new purpose. Not to sell a product, but to show how many ways a man can be belittled, humiliated and shown to be an inept, blithering idiot to the delight of a "superior" in-your-face female.



There are two things I don't understand about this. The first is why the sponsors approve of and buy this garbage, which is supposedly designed to make the entire population, which I believe still technically includes us "lowly" men, buy their product or service. Do they feel that men are so incapable of making intelligent decisions, have no control over purchasing, and are so are totally inane, that it doesn't matter that the commercials make such fools of us day after day? I keep a list of commercials that offend me in this respect and I refuse the buy their products. If more and more guys did this, believe me, this insane mindset would disappear."



It's a tough battle. Women control 80% of all consumer dollars. Much like the idiotic, clumsy, ape-like, lazy black Jim Crow charicatures promoted a century ago to appeal to the elitist white dollar, the idiotic, clumsy, ape-like, lazy man charicatures promoted today are designed to appeal to the elitist female dollar. The first "Secret" deodorant commercial really exposed just how profitable appeals to female elitism are when their product was yanked out of the hands of a man (filmed in black and white with his face kept off the screen), by a woman, (filmed in color), as the message "made for us" was narrated. Other deodorants, whose commercials showed women or men picking up the deodorant off of the shelf and made no attempts to dehumanize the men by hiding their faces got clobbered by Secret deodorant. In addition to these "women violating the rights of insignificant men who submissively let them" types of ads Hallmark's Shoebox division came out in the early 90s appealing to female elitism by making horribly anti-male greeting cards, often depicting sexual abuse of men as humor. These cards outsold all the other Mother's Day, Birthday, and Christmas cards, (the ones that weren't produced by Shoebox), quickly becoming the most profitable division for Hallmark. There's a lot of money in appealing to the female supremacist majority, and when even most men can't see that Homer Simpson is identical to the charicature of "Sambo" from the Jim Crow days given a bleach job you know misandry has become so infiltrated into the social code as to be invisible.



See *read more* below for the rest of Jack's article.Continued... "Secondly, don't the guys see what is happening before their eyes? Why are the men of this country allowing this to continue? Ricardo Montalban had the Frito Bandito removed from the air because the cartoon character cast a slightly negative image on the Hispanic population by being a bandit. That was incredibly minuscule compared to what is happening today. Where are the white Ricardo Montalban's looking out for the interest of white men today?



Every sitcom has the exact same scenario. Find a loudmouth, liberated, angry, "victimized" female who can cross her arms and roll her eyes and a man whose every remark is intentionally designed as fuel for her rebukes and insults and there you have it…entertainment television of the 21st century! If you don't believe that, watch any new sitcom.



To the delight of the studio audience, the predominant theme used for daytime tabloid and talk shows is "Boo hoo hoo, look what a man did to me, boo hoo hoo. How can he be destroyed?"



"TV Land" cannot even promo it's reruns of "Father Knows Best" without inserting a disclaimer, "Not always, of course".



A program can no longer have a male host alone. There now must be a female "co-host" whose mission is to out talk him, be heard above him and to be the center of attention. And, of course, to put him down at every opportunity.



And, of course, females have taken over reporting the news. Men are only used now as background and filler and someone to be shown as being subservient to the female anchor. Watch CNN for 30 seconds to see this.



There is a "voodoo" commercial seemingly aired every 10 minutes by Progressive.com. The supposedly jilted female uses her computer and voodoo to completely humiliate and destroy a guy. I complained to the company about this blatant male bashing and the female's response was that it was a humorous way to sell their product, which is insurance, and that it would continue. Am I missing something here? Are men going to buy insurance because they enjoy watching a guy being relentlessly sexually humiliated to the delight of this revengeful female? I think not!



If anything offensive is presented about females, the feminists groups immediately jump on it and it is rebuked. And, of course, nothing negative or offensive can be written about blacks. But it is open season on white men. Anything and everything negative can be said and no one says a word. It is time for this injustice to end.



And, after all this, women still expect chivalry and "ladies first". No, I don't think so.



I think it is time that we men stood up and said loudly, ENOUGH IS ENOUGH! Men need to contact the sponsors who air this trash and let them know that they are not going to buy their products. And to contact the commercial studios who produce this garbage and let them know that men have had enough.



If females want to wear the pants in the family, drive the big trucks and SUVs in order to feel powerful, be "equal" on a 60-40 basis and be the dominator of men, then let's see some commercials where their fat rear ends or tiny breasts are the subject of male ridicule and jocularity and where females are routinely disdained and casually discarded like yesterday's trash and see how long THEY stay on the air.



Jack Thomas, Jr."

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