I dunno… kinda seems like you’re off an a tangent there, which is a very interesting tangent IMO, but still not really what I was trying to focus in on.
I’m not gonna state my theme point ad nauseam, but I suspect there are some very significant reasons why shows like The Honeymooners were rare in terms of the skewed husband-wife dynamic. Patriarchy probably being first. Patriarch and patriarchical tradition across pop media.
That is the real point I was trying to get at, explaining why it took so very long for a show like The Simpsons to finally break through.
Ah, I see. Because your original comment seemed to confine the question to American media and TV specifically, I thought your interest was more in the mechanics of storytelling in that genre than it was.
I dunno… kinda seems like you’re off an a tangent there, which is a very interesting tangent IMO, but still not really what I was trying to focus in on.
I’m not gonna state my theme point ad nauseam, but I suspect there are some very significant reasons why shows like The Honeymooners were rare in terms of the skewed husband-wife dynamic. Patriarchy probably being first. Patriarch and patriarchical tradition across pop media.
That is the real point I was trying to get at, explaining why it took so very long for a show like The Simpsons to finally break through.
Ah, I see. Because your original comment seemed to confine the question to American media and TV specifically, I thought your interest was more in the mechanics of storytelling in that genre than it was.
OMG, no… that would be a Titanic-sized issue to try to tackle!