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Man Up! (ABC)
Premieres: Tuesday, Oct. 18 at 8:30/7:30c

It’s hard out there for a guy these days, haven’t you heard? Like its network-mate and lead-in Last Man Standing, Man Up! also explores the emasculation of the modern man in an increasingly estrogen-dominated universe through three best friends (Mather Zickel, Dan Fogler and Chris Moynihan, who’s also the show’s writer and executive producer). They are 40 going on 14 until they realize it’s time to, well, man up and get in touch with their macho side — if they even know how to do that.

Ohmigod, y’all, don’t you know that women getting a tiny modicum of social rights and recognition means that the UNIVERSE is ESTROGEN-DOMINATED, thereby cruelly and irrevocably EMASCULATING all the men?!?

… orrrrrr maybe the new spate of tv shows concentrating on the poor, downtrodden, subjugated men is a great opiate when it comes to distracting people from the very real and ongoing erosion of women’s basic rights — reproductive, social, embodied, racialized, sexualized — take your pick.

(The aforementioned Last Man Standing is a Tim Allen vehicle where he’s the beleaguered father of two daughters, so he’s boo-hoo outnumbered by the wimmenfolk. Let me tell you something, asshole — my dad is in the same situation, and instead of whining about needing to “restore men to their rightful manly place in a woman’s world”, he cheerfully vacuums the house and is happy when we buy him flowers and he washes my car when I visit and begs us to go see romcoms with him and talks about Batman with us and on one occasion tried on my mom’s pearls because she was away and he missed her. That’s the fleeting reality of a manly place in a woman’s world, because let me assure you, anywhere else he goes in this entire fucking place that’s not his own home? It is NOT A WOMAN’S WORLD.)

(Source: bossymarmalade)

reddresspress:

Man Up! (ABC)
Premieres: Tuesday, Oct. 18 at 8:30/7:30c

It’s hard out there for a guy these days, haven’t you heard? Like its network-mate and lead-in Last Man Standing, Man Up! also explores the emasculation of the modern man in an increasingly estrogen-dominated universe through three best friends (Mather Zickel, Dan Fogler and Chris Moynihan, who’s also the show’s writer and executive producer). They are 40 going on 14 until they realize it’s time to, well, man up and get in touch with their macho side — if they even know how to do that.

Ohmigod, y’all, don’t you know that women getting a tiny modicum of social rights and recognition means that the UNIVERSE is ESTROGEN-DOMINATED, thereby cruelly and irrevocably EMASCULATING all the men?!?

… orrrrrr maybe the new spate of tv shows concentrating on the poor, downtrodden, subjugated men is a great opiate when it comes to distracting people from the very real and ongoing erosion of women’s basic rights — reproductive, social, embodied, racialized, sexualized — take your pick.

(The aforementioned Last Man Standing is a Tim Allen vehicle where he’s the beleaguered father of two daughters, so he’s boo-hoo outnumbered by the wimmenfolk. Let me tell you something, asshole — my dad is in the same situation, and instead of whining about needing to “restore men to their rightful manly place in a woman’s world”, he cheerfully vacuums the house and is happy when we buy him flowers and he washes my car when I visit and begs us to go see romcoms with him and talks about Batman with us and on one occasion tried on my mom’s pearls because she was away and he missed her. That’s the fleeting reality of a manly place in a woman’s world, because let me assure you, anywhere else he goes in this entire fucking place that’s not his own home? It is NOT A WOMAN’S WORLD.)