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In reply to the discussion: Gov Cuomo didn't realize that he had crossed a line when he touched the breast of a woman who worked [View all]Beringia
(5,675 posts)It aired in 1977, but quickly went off the air. I remember watching it and it seemed so weird beyond comprehension and so was not that funny. But Norman Lear tried to turn sexism in the workplace on its head.
All That Glitters is an American sitcom by producer Norman Lear. It aired between April 18 and July 15, 1977, in broadcast syndication. The show, a spoof of the soap opera format, depicted the trials and tribulations of a group of executives at the Globatron corporation. The twist of the series was that it was set within a world of complete role-reversal: Women were the "stronger sex," the executives and breadwinners, while the "weaker sex" the men were the secretaries or stay-at-home househusbands. Men were often treated as sex objects.
Critically, All That Glitters was negatively received and a ratings disappointment across syndicated television stations.
Lear described the premise simply: "God created Eve first, took out her rib and gave her a companion so she wouldn't be lonely." Lear came up with the idea on a trip to Washington, D.C.:
"I had visited the Institute of Policy Studies, and I just loved the whole thing. And I thought there was a series in ita five-times-a-week series: I went to bed thinking about that, and I woke up the next morning thinking what would happen if the male-female equation were changed? What would happen if the women had all the power and all the advantage, and the men had what the women normally would have?"
The world of All That Glitters had always been female-dominated but Lear also used the series to comment on changing sex roles in the United States in the 1970s.
All That Glitters debuted the week of April 18, 1977, on about 40 stations in late-night syndication. It was poorly critically received, with one reviewer going so far as to call the show's theme song "blasphemous" for suggesting that God was female and created Eve first.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_That_Glitters_(TV_series)
