I am also not the Death of Fun. It is okay to hang out with me. I will cheer at your hockey games, watch and enjoy your dorky movies, and line up for concerts with you.
God you're so right and I feel awful that I've almost accepted it as always going to be there. *growl*
I AGREE. At my super bowl party this weekend I yelled out "WHAT is WITH all these heteronormative women bashing commercials?!"
You could hear the crickets chirping after I said that. I don't care though, it was out of control!! Did you see the Dodge Charger commercial?! "Man's Last Stand". Argh!!
The Dodge commercial was really over the top, in a batch of women-as-funkiller commercials. It was a mark of how great the gathering at my house was that all six people in the room (three men and three women) groaned and threatened to throw things at the television. There was also the commercial addressed to 'women who love football,' and I didn't know how to feel about that. On the one hand, thanks for acknowledging it, but on the other, why do you have to make it sound like it's such a rarity?
I like football-- more than my husband does, in fact. and I like beer. And he has better fashion sense than I do. Although I do make him eat healthy food from time to time, he appreciates it and it's only cuz I want him around forever. Yeah, sometimes he has to take responsibilities for things and stuff, although that has more to do with being an actual adult and a parent to boot than with being married to a woman.
Oh my God my sister is CRAZY about football. She watches it religiously, and she mourns the finish of the Pro Bowl because it means football season is over.
Thank you for writing this, it was very satisfying.
As far as your "if only there was a sitcom where" - does How I Met Your Mother maybe live up to this maybe? With the Marshall and Lily thing?? I've only seen the first 3 seasons and it's possible that I'm blocking it out....
But my feeling memory is that the show DOESN'T buy in to this to the point where there's an entire character (Barney) who insists that all women ARE the death of fun.... and everyone else thinks he's an idiot. (Also spoilerspoilerspoiler but maybe he's kind of an idiot too).
Lily does show some shades of Death of Fun at times, but the times they've made her seem like the Death of Fun they tend to resolve it well by the end of the episode. One episode I'm thinking of made her the Death of Fun, but I think it led to a relisation about growing up rather than being played straight.
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God you're so right and I feel awful that I've almost accepted it as always going to be there. *growl*
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You could hear the crickets chirping after I said that. I don't care though, it was out of control!! Did you see the Dodge Charger commercial?! "Man's Last Stand". Argh!!
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I like football-- more than my husband does, in fact. and I like beer. And he has better fashion sense than I do. Although I do make him eat healthy food from time to time, he appreciates it and it's only cuz I want him around forever. Yeah, sometimes he has to take responsibilities for things and stuff, although that has more to do with being an actual adult and a parent to boot than with being married to a woman.
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As far as your "if only there was a sitcom where" - does How I Met Your Mother maybe live up to this maybe? With the Marshall and Lily thing?? I've only seen the first 3 seasons and it's possible that I'm blocking it out....
But my feeling memory is that the show DOESN'T buy in to this to the point where there's an entire character (Barney) who insists that all women ARE the death of fun.... and everyone else thinks he's an idiot. (Also spoilerspoilerspoiler but maybe he's kind of an idiot too).
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And Ted has DEFINITELY been the Death of Fun at least once ...
It seems to be spread around more egalitarianly:P
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