[ SECRET POST #5747 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #5747 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.


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[Halt and Catch Fire]



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[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]


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[According to Jim]


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11. [SPOILERS for Stranger Things Season 4]




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12. [SPOILERS for The Wishing Stone]




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13. [WARNING for discussion of transphobia]








































Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 00 pages, 00 secrets from Secret Submission Post #822.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[fscom]

10. https://i.imgur.com/fsfma4U.png
[According to Jim]

[(Anonymous)]

Seeing this image just gave me so many flashbacks. To this show, the one with John Ritter, the one with the redheaded dude, and then Reba and the show with Bonnie and her sister played by Kelly Ripa (which plays a lot on the responsible woman holding everything and everyone together, but who needs to learn to put herself first). I feel like the ones that featured divorced and not exactly mom+dad+kids were often "breaking the mold" in a way for what was often the reality for many people, and reaching "Middle America", as it were.

But man, have I forgotten these shows and what you're mentioning in the secret

[(Anonymous)]

To be fair, those shows weren’t meant to appeal to you. They were made for average suburban parents so the wife could feel like her story was being told but also that her husband was at least better than the ones on TV and to make the husbands feel superior to the idiot guys they saw on TV. The kids were always generic so it was easier to project one’s own kids onto them and feel like they were getting a glimpse into how their children think and act.

[(Anonymous)]

Congratulations, OP, you have accurarely summed up 95% of sitcoms there.

Somebody above said it's meant to appeal to average suburban parents, but that's not quite true is it? Most of these were written by men and you can really tell by the borderline misogyny in the way the wife was written. It's not showing the wife's story, it's entirely from the husband's pov. Joyless and fun killing, always nagging? Pretty sure you could walk into any one of these dudes homes and find a wife who has spent her entire married life wishing for a husband who would act like an adult and do the bare minimum of his share of household tasks. You'd definitely find the kind of immature asshole who secretly thinks domestic work is solely for his wife and resents not being waited on hand and foot. For every instance of joyless nagging they write about you just know there's a poor woman somewhere wishing just once her no good husband would do the fecking washing up.

[(Anonymous)]

^ This.

[greghousesgf]

I never did like that show.

[(Anonymous)]

There is (maybe was, it's going through some doubts) a show about this trope called Kevin Can Go F**k Himself that maybe would appeal to you. It's a meta approach about what a wife might feel being married to that kind of guy.