[–] Chiefpacman 1 point 10 points 11 points (+11|-1) ago
Why is the dad always a clown while the mom's quiet/smart.
Women are insecure, and men don't care enough.
[–] Chiefpacman 1 point 4 points 5 points (+5|-1) ago (edited ago)
Yeah haha
One odd example I have of this not being the case: American Dad.
Stan's a badass CIA agent, with a hot wife who does right by him. Refreshing.
Sadly, even Rick and Morty follow the 'defeated dad' set up. It's hilarious though.. And to be fair their both fuck ups.
[–] Firevine 2 points 5 points 7 points (+7|-2) ago
Because women are a protected class in America. They are favored in all areas, including laws, portrayals in media, etc. It's formed them into basically adult children for the most part, spoiled, coddled, and thinking the entire world is against them.
Not all, of course. There's been plenty of wonderful women contributing here on Voat, and surely millions more out there. But the rest of the herd has the U.S. bending over backwards for them, and they don't understand or appreciate it.
[–] IdSay [S] 0 points 3 points 3 points (+3|-0) ago
turning them into monsters https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y69tkCbeC5o
[–] 5321804? 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
This is also kind of true. The rules for broadcast tend to skew toward the restrictive in order to appease the most vocal people. Folks who want nudity and such on TV are far less likely to protest and cause a fuss than folks who don't want it on there. Mostly because it isn't that they actually want the TV full of nudity but because they don't really care if it is or isn't there.
[–] 1moar 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
It serves to the lowest common denominator; the continued dumbing down of society.
It's a baby sitter, entertainment, a must-have. (general sentiment, but not mine) It's almost weird to meet someone that doesn't have a TV in their house. Girl I'm seeing now doesn't have one at all, I'm...impressed.
Once I realized what a 'laugh-track' was and realized how creepy they really sound, knowing it's fake...a whole lot of questions started entering my head and I took the pill at a very early age.
Shit's cancer.
[–] rulloff_in_a_jar 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
Aside from the puritan influence and audience of network mentioned itt, male nudity is more funny, men are much more visually sexual so female nudity is either gross if she's ugly or arousing.
[–] ShinyVoater 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
animes don't have this problem, they show tits and butts of everyone
Be careful in your assessment there: the vast, vast majority of anime are late night affairs targeted to the sort of people who'll spend $70 or $100 per two-episode disc. Needless to say, this leads to a fair bit of pure fanservice shows, which tend to be fairly prudishly censored on TV for no other reason than to get people to buy said discs.
[–] ShinyVoater ago
Both of those are fairly old; Dragon Ball Z finished its run in 1996 and Ranma wrapped up in 1992. Standards have changed since then and not necessarily in a more open direction.
[–] alalzia 0 points 11 points 11 points (+11|-0) ago
Initially the colonies were populated by the most conservative Europeans and their traditions are still part of the generally prudish American culture .
[–] 5321518? 0 points 10 points 10 points (+10|-0) ago
There is something missing from this answer though. It isn't just that we were populated by the more conservative people. It was that we were populated by so many different sects of Christians and they had a tendency to segregate into different areas of the colonies where they could worship as they saw fit. When it came time to write a Constitution to bind all of these areas together, they inserted the Establishment Clause into the Constitution to forbid the Federal government from putting one religion above the others but did not require the states to do the same (many states had official religions well into the 1800's) in order to appease all of these different people. It wasn't until the 14th Amendment came along and a few Supreme Court cases were ruled upon that the states could no longer put one religion above others. At that point it still was not uncommon for the life of a town to revolve around the local church. And the US even to this day is largely rural, where those same churches still dominate the social life of the people.
What does all that have to do with butts? It means that we did not start the process of actually separating the morals of particular religions from the morals of the government until really late compared to other countries. It is happening in the cities more quickly than outside of them, but even there we have a lot of leaders who were raised in the old ways and fight against it. Look at things like the Civil Rights leaders. They are mostly clergy still. Until that changes (and it is starting to) you won't see as much change everywhere.
[–] IggyReilly 0 points 4 points 4 points (+4|-0) ago
TIL. This could explain why some of my ancestors were buried without much of a marker - they immigrated here mid-1800s but did not practice the popular religion in the area they settled. I always thought that was kind of weird the township wouldn't respect their passing by allowing them headstones.