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Buttoneer

(928 posts) Tue Jan 6, 2026, 08:03 PM Jan 6

TV Series of the past that are cringey AF

Hill Street Blues. It is so misogynistic. Go ahead and try to watch it today.

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TV Series of the past that are cringey AF (Original Post) Buttoneer Jan 6 OP

Most of them. Srkdqltr Jan 6 #1

Bonanza boonecreek Jan 6 #2

I find that almost all TV shows in the 50s up until maybe the mid 2000s Diamond_Dog Jan 6 #3

I grew up on the original Star Trek. Back then, it was a different way of looking at men and women. Intractable Jan 7 #4

Yes, Hill Street Blues is awful. I liked it when I was a teenager. Lot of it's mucifer Jan 7 #5

Srkdqltr

(9,430 posts)

1. Most of them.

Reply to Buttoneer (Original post)

Tue Jan 6, 2026, 08:38 PM

Jan 6

I really love the beloved Gunsmoke, a marshal who lives upstairs of a saloon where the "girls" are sex workers and he co- habits with the madam

boonecreek

(1,402 posts)

2. Bonanza

Reply to Buttoneer (Original post)

Tue Jan 6, 2026, 09:06 PM

Jan 6

I swear, the Cartwrights were a family of serial killers.

Diamond_Dog

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3. I find that almost all TV shows in the 50s up until maybe the mid 2000s

Reply to Buttoneer (Original post)

Tue Jan 6, 2026, 11:04 PM

Jan 6

are really sexist. I Dream of Jeannie … Bewitched … I Love Lucy …. Of course there were exceptions but not many.

Intractable

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4. I grew up on the original Star Trek. Back then, it was a different way of looking at men and women.

Reply to Buttoneer (Original post)

Wed Jan 7, 2026, 06:39 AM

Jan 7

Highly misogynistic.

mucifer

(25,552 posts)

5. Yes, Hill Street Blues is awful. I liked it when I was a teenager. Lot of it's

Reply to Buttoneer (Original post)

Wed Jan 7, 2026, 07:24 AM

Jan 7

stories came from incidents in Chicago where I am from.

Watched an episode a few years ago and yup lots of anti women stuff .

There is an episode of Barney Miller where they treat rape in marriage as a joke. That one really shocked me especially because they had some really good liberal themed episodes.

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