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Ask Dr. Helen: Is Male Bashing Curable?

February 21, 2008 - 1:10 am
Paul
2008-02-21 07:09:28

Is life really like that for men in America? Here in England, the women in my life (wife, daughter, mother-in-law, friends and colleagues) never abuse me in this silly way. On the contrary I am treated with love or respect and in some cases both. I have done nothing special to earn this. Whatever happened to: “Do unto others as you would be done by.” ???

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I would say that it is according to which generation of which you speak. It seems that the current generation of teens and twentysomething females have the princess complex; and, I don’t mean princess in a good way. They place themselves on a pedestal and seem to Paris Hilton as their model of behavior.

On a general note, the overall treatment of men is what turned me off of primetime television, especially the sitcoms, as I got tired of seeing the stereotypical idiot husband/father as the butt of abuse that was never leveled at June Cleaver or Lucy Ricardo during those “Dark Ages” of television.