Actually, to be fair, the point itself was discussed immediately. Did you see the posts on the first two pages about Everybody Loves Raymond, country music, the target audience of TV and commercials, Andy Griffith, sitcoms in general, old-time TV shows, etc. All of the posts that I saw on the first two pages at least were about the topic, not attacking Lee or accusing him of having a complex.

To return to the topic, Lee and Perry, you are in good company. Marilyn Vos Savant said something along these lines (about women being portrayed as smart and men portrayed as bumbling) in her Parade column this past Sunday. I tried to find it online to show you but they don't post it until seven days after the fact. But if you saved your Parade section from Sunday's newspaper it's in there.[/color]

I was responding to this comment:

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Nothing new, though.  During the Civil War, the men used the ideal of "Southern Womanhood" as one of their prime motivations for fighting.  Our culture's always elevated women to the point of sainthood, often by demonizing men a bit beyond what is necessary.

But in the end, men are the ones who do it.  Particularly southern men.  Take the whole genre of Redneck humor.  The purpose of the whole thing is to show how stupid and uncouth men are.  The culture has evolved to the point where men are often proud of their assumed stupidity, and a hint of intelligence or breeding is equated with a hint of femininity.  

So yes, this trend is real, but no, I don't blame women.  I think the lowest-common-denominator culture so many of us have bought into is to blame.[/color]