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> Philip Lewis wrote:
>> I watched a trailer for this show and quickly thanked the gods of
> science
>> for DVD's!!!
>>
>> Phil
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>>
>
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."

A philosophy ultimately based on ill will and malice towards men will 
backfire badly on it's adherents!

Phuil

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