Dennis Prager: Dick Van Dyke show represents reality about gender relations
Dennis Prager is a right-wing radio host with fascinating ideas about gender relations.
Today he is using a clip from the Dick Van Dyke show as a basis for discussion, where the Mary Tyler Moore character had been considering resuming her dancing career, which she had given up to marry Dick. He doesn't want her to do that, but he doesn't forbid her. Is he not merciful. In the end, she decides not to do it and gives a little speech, saying "remember when you proposed to me, I told you, take me away from all this , I don't want to be a dancer, I want to be your wife."
Well, Dennis Prager loves this scene and he says this represents the ideal of what marriage is supposed to be.
I guess it's just the university-indoctrinated leftist in me that would point out that that was a TV show, it is fiction. Someone wrote that scene. It does represent something, but what it represents is the attitudes of those writers.
Oh, and about those writers, here are their names, from Wikipedia. Gee, what do these names have in common?
Frank Tarloff (as "David Adler"
John Whedon
Sheldon Keller
Howard Merrill
Martin Ragaway
Bill Persky
Sam Denoff
Garry Marshall
Jerry Belson
Carl Kleinschmitt
Dale McRaven
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...I asked friend, who was a detective at the time, which TV cop show was the most realistic. I was thinking Police Story or maybe one of the others that seemed kind of close to what I imaged was reality. His answer was Barney Miller.
A negative intellect, Prager sees himself a modern philosopher. He is a self-absorbed jerk. 
--imm
TO THE MOON ALICE...... and such 
Seriously - it's 2012, gender lines are blurring more and more every day. When are these idiots going to learn that the black and white stereotypes we were taught as kids no longer apply? Obviously never. 
