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There’s Always Somebody Ruining the Fun for the Rest of Us

Lady, if you don’t want him, we’ll take him:

Rick likes that he can be there for their 7-year-old daughter, but
Eleanor says, “I don’t like coming home and seeing him in my apron.”
Eleanor says she doesn’t know if she can learn to respect her husband
if he can’t find a job because, “that’s one of the basic things that
little girls grow up thinking, that the man is going to put a roof over
her head he’s going to support the family.”

All sexist crap aside, what the hell is going on? There are places to go for sensitive discussion of the erosion of traditional gender roles in our society and the effects on people’s marriages, especially during times of economic upset, but Good Morning America wouldn’t be on my top ten list of them.

Modern American Journalism: Like marriage counseling, in a way.

Stories like this always amuse me — and by amuse I mean enrage — with their total ignorance of any kind of history at all. World War II, anybody? Great Depression? I mean, this movie came out in 198FUCKING3, but leave it to GMA to act like the world began yesterday just because they noticed a really big bang.

A.

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