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Why Are TV Dads Such Buffoons? - Mens Health There's a reason TV dads are usually portrayed as bumbling idiots: The ins and outs of real fatherhood don't exactly make for exciting television
Dumbing down Dad: How media present husbands, fathers as useless "One evening, after watching Homer Simpson wreck the family car at a monster-truck rally and plunge on a skateboard into Springfield Gorge, my 6-year-old son asked me, 'Why are dads on TV so dumb?'" wrote John Tierny from the New York Times
The Portrayal of Fathers in Popular Media - Southern Equip Buffoonish, ignorant, self-centered, and inept television dads must be shown their proper places in the home At best, television dads are nominal or figurehead leaders of the home, but at worst, they are relegated to the intellectual level of the family pet
Why are sitcom dads still so inept? — Center for Scholars . . . In a shift that media scholars have documented, only in later decades did fathers start to become foolish and incompetent And yet the real-world roles and expectations of fathers have changed in recent years
Why Does TV Love To Portray Dads As Idiots? - Role Reboot We already worry about children absorbing gendered messaging—adventure, exploration, and construction tools for boys, glitter and princess gear for girls—but what do they learn about their parents, or the way parents are “supposed” to be, from advertising and TV?
Dads on Sitcoms - The Atlantic On the small screen, dads are dolts, dads are idiots And while it may seem harmless to get a few cheap laughs at dads' expense, these characters, and their hilarious incompetence, form
How Mass Media Portray Dads What You Can Do About It From TV portrayals, to mass media advertising, and even digital and social media, seeking to counteract whatever bad or negative portrayals you've seen from dads in your life is important—for you and for those around you