Philip Lewis wrote:
> I watched a trailer for this show and quickly thanked the gods of
science
> for DVD's!!!
>
> Phil
> -----------------------------
>
http://www.heraldsun.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5478,12144623%255E25717,00.html
> Hate men? Tune in
> Andrew Bolt
> 04feb05
>
> Unhappy, unfulfilled, unappreciated, unloved: these are the Desperate

> Houswives. And who's to blame? Men, of course.
[...]

> Yes, Desperate Housewives is in fact a bitch-and-revenge fantasy for
the
> self-pitying married post-feminist, who wants to let off steam from
> something other than an iron.

ROFLMAO!!!

[...]

> But you do know whose fault this all is, don't you?
>
> Meet her husband, who comes home from a business trip and jumps on
her for
> some hello sex. Told to put on a condom, he grins and says: "Let's
risk it."
>
> Whack! She punches him fair in the face. The monster.

Ironically, this is not a good way to portray women as strong.  If he
takes a right cross to the face and walks away unhurt, how strong is
she?

> Bree would understand. When single mum Susan complains how her
husband left
> her for his secretary, Bree says this is half the reason she got a
gun.
>
> Bree: When Rex started going to those medical conferences, I wanted
at the
> back of his mind that he had a loving wife at home, with a loaded
Smith and
> Wesson.

Or rather, a hateful wife who can't shoot for shit.

Angry Harry often talks of a coming backlash, and this is the sort of
thing that will precipitate it, if it ever happens.  No TV show could
ever portray a man threatening to kill his wife if she cheats, and
after the show portrayed one of his friends cheating.  But this show
does the reverse unabashedly.  Through shows like these, women
essentially gloat about their power, as does the woman who grabs a
man's ass at the office, knowing that no one can touch her for it.
It's an in-your-face way of saying, "Get back in your place, uppity
man.  I have the power.  Nyahh nyahh."  

[...]



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