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that wave of radicalism of the seventies has long since passed, Never was going to be a permanent thing.

Sindy is a girl's doll that is more working-class than Barbie.

whether Child in Peril or Creepy Child, it's usually a young female child they use. I guess Dolls, Dresses and Stuffed Animals are aimed at the mothers in the audience, who either have daughters or were little girls themselves once.

We all mock how cancer is used in VSE's but as a person with diabetes, the use of it in very special episodes can cause problems for real life people with the disease as television depiction of diabetes influences how people treat us as human beings and react to us.

There was an episode of "Cold Case" where the killer of the week realizes that his next victim has her child with her in the car and goes "what's SHE doing here?" and later kidnaps the woman when she is alone. In real life - unlike TV and its Infant Immortality trope - the woman's little daughter would have ended up like Seana Tapp or Amanda Dixon.

WEARING A SUIT TO A DANCE IS "FEMINIST" NAMING YOUR NEW BABY DAUGHTER SOMETHING MASCULINE IS "FEMINIST" Both of those things are pretty darn anti-feminist!

My cousin's daughter is Ava Maureen. Marcia just reminds me of being bullied by her types in school. like I said, she's why a lot of people don't like Harris Conner-Healy of The Conners. Nothing against either Maureen McCormick or Emma Kenney, I just hate the (usually male) writers.

Marcia Brady is increasingly over feminised and sexualised by the production team as the series progresses. I also find her to be Scrappy Doo in a brassiere.

Harris shows why sometimes these teenage girl characters can be seen by the audience as Scrappy Doo in a brassiere.

Yeah. You only have to look at the Bunch to see how smart Brian was. Any FA in-character show in the eighties or nineties would require a Fake Buffy and a Fake French. With Anissa and Sebby both gone, Brian's heart was no longer in anything Family Affair he told Johnny Carson.

Landon bluntly thought there was too much estrogen in the Ingalls family.

Speaking of twins on shows, there was a wonderful line on TV Tropes Dot Org taken from a post on the old TWOP about how the parents would have to explain to their (cis) sons why they were on television playing a (cis) girl as a baby but a trans activist removed it as transphobic.

I don't know which episode as I'm more of a casual viewer so I don't know the episode title but ML says to MG something like "I haven't been whipping you in a while, and I think iIve been making a mistake!" and MG goes "No, Pa, please, don't! I didn't mean it!" Charles should have just gone ahead and whipped Laura. There's an episode of The Saddle Club where little sister Melanie humiliates Lisa Atwood by showing a photo of Lisa naked as a baby to Alpha Bitches Veronica and Kristi, and I feel that Lisa should have given Melanie a smack right then and there. Yes The Saddle Club is aimed at girls and I'm a guy...

The Brady Bunch: The Next Generation looking at the grandchildren (and great grandchildren) of the family sounds more creative and interesting than concentrating on fifty and sixty somethings. Go for it.

TBB fanfiction plot bunny I have: Greg falls victim to a cursed magic medallion. The curse is "when you think of sex, you shall become sex", so every time he has sexy thoughts about a girl he becomes a girl.

Don't worry, Shannen Doherty would have been let go soon enough, just as she was on 90210 and Charmed 😉

Melissa Gilbert was always obnoxious, though. A flash in the pan who was given Helen Keller and Anne Frank when she was woefully out of her depth. It's somewhat mystifying - to me - that MSA has gotten most of the opprobrium over the years when MG is far worse IMO.

Michael Landon definitely had some mental damage from his troubled/terrible childhood. Unfortunately for us all, he chose to work it out on national television.

I hate the way Melissa Gilbert plays Laura. You just want to offer her a stay at H. H. Holmes hotel.

I think ML keeping the Turnbaugh Twins in that high chair after they got way too old for it was a mistake. Guess ML was expressing some subconcious rage at his childhood again... (see also: Carrie the Pee Puddler)

the episode of "Lime Street" in question can be found here:

The wonderful thing about that episode of Lime Street is that they end up putting Samantha Reed Smith's character in the most eighties-fantastic dress possible but show her trying on dresses that are a lot more subtle (and better) in an earlier scene. Oh well... @Bastet @janie jones @auntlada

Farrah Fawcett is one of those flash-in-the-pans that intrigue me to be honest. obscurity-fame-(relative) obscurity-fame (when she died)-(relative) obscurity again.

Lime Street "fell apart" with Samantha Reed Smith's death but even with her, it didn't have the support it needed from ABC top brass to save it from The Golden Girls. Put it on an hour later against the eighties Twilight Zone and it might have found an audience and survived a few seasons.

I think the doll on the bed might come to life and go on a rampage.