Bored on night shift and I am watching "Barabbas" with Anthony Quinn. The 50s and even early 60s were good for Biblical epics. At some point something changed but in our parents lifetime this was ostensibly not the case.
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My dad used to point out how all the TV dads were kind of like Everybody Loves Raymond by the late 90s. The wife could do anything and was always held back by her bumbling idiot of a husband. I want to say there were even multiple shows like this on one after another at one point, except every one except Raymond was also fat.. haha
It’s a good point, though. Even in lefty garbage like Modern Family, the dad is portrayed as kind of effeminate and largely superfluous in the grand scheme. It’s almost like they’ve been trying to convince men to succumb to frivolities and not to perform our “traditional” roles in society, while conditioning the rest of it that it doesn’t need traditional men and that such people are also toxic... Nah, surely they wouldn’t do that.