Male Bashing On Tv Analysis

Michael Abernathy’s article “Male Bashing on TV” uses many television sources and percentages to explain how men are treated like idiots inside of the media. Abernathy is a television reviewer, cultural critic, and queer culture commentator (350). While Heather Havrilesky's article “TV’s New Wave of Women:Smart, Strong, Borderline Insane” is the opposite and uses television sources to explain how women are treated as smart yet crazy inside of the media. These two articles describe how men and women are portrayed differently in television shows and the media. The articles have smaller subtopics in common which are the portrayal of men and women in the media, the comparison of men and women in each article, and how Abernathy and Havrilesky want

At the end of Abernathy’s he states that it would be nice to see men equally treated like how women are treated. He says men behave in the manor they do because they try to deal with many things at one time. Abernathy is quoted by saying, “We’re trying to deal the best we can with the kids, the spouse, the job, the bills, the household chores, and the countless crises that pop up unexpectedly” (353). He is trying to say maybe men are exhausted from the day, and not just acting in that manor because people say they act like idiots. On the other hand Havrilesky's article is very similar, but states that she wants women to be treated better and not like the insane stereotypes they are said to be. She does not want people to see women as crazy or insane, she just wants women to be seen as the smart and capable human beings they are. She goes on to state that, “Many so called crazy women are just smart, that's all. They're not too smart for their own good” (Havrilesky 5). Both Abernathy and Havrilesky strongly believe in the equality of men and women in the media, and they use pathos to strike at the emotions of their readers. Both articles clearly reached an equal statement on how they believe in their