Part of the reason is that women were considered the "little woman" or "fair sex" or other semi-derogatory terms for a long time. If you look at commercials or ads from the 60s and before, women were treated in those ads as the cook, housekeeper, mother, and sometimes love mate, but usually in a very simple or even silly light. After the initial period of women's liberation, Advertising agencies could no longer make the woman look "silly", but it was open-season on men. Since then, you rarely ever see an ad where a woman is the silly one. It seems like it's almost always the men that look ridiculous. People constantly see this in print and on TV, so they now think it's OK to make fun of men and/or humiliate them in public. Granted, there are some men that truly deserve to be made fun of, but not in public.I used to love Steve Harvey. But after I watched a couple of his shows, I realized that he's playing to his audience (primarily women). For instance, his comments that it wasn't a woman's responsibility to impress a man, it was the man's responsibility to impress the woman (in a dating situation). In reality, both sides are trying to impress the other. It's this kind of pandering that's the reason I don't watch his show any longer.
@Retired_Engineer: VERY TRUE,,, I only pick and choose the shows I watch. Its the same thing 9 times out of 10.
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