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Love, Sidney (1982-83) was a small but first step on a long road to gay male (and LBTQI) fronted series in later decades, even though the actor himself was cishet. Without the firing of the starter's pistol, you never reach the finishing line. The series My Two Dads was groundbreaking for having a girl being raised by two men without a woman. Even if the two men characters weren't gay, it was still valuable to show the general public that two cishet men raising a cishet girl such as the character of Nicole wouldn't automatically be predatory towards her. My Three Sons, two decades before, was also a good step towards showing the public that a mom wasn't actually inherently required. Unfortunately, in the last few seasons it became a kind of dime store version of "The Brady Bunch" when Dodie played by Dawn Lyn joined and etc.

Thank you to all who have given reacts. I am happy you are so welcoming.

replying to what I have bolded. I concur though, to me, I would describe it as one end of them is tinfoil hat and the other is knight templar.

In other words, I was agreeing with your point that most people in RL do not resist or challenge as they know that if they keep their head down that they will likely survive and the amount of those that did are often inflated or outright fabricated in retrospect.

A good indication that your series is in dire need of the undertaker is when your female main child cast consists of Scratchy the Cat from "Porch Pals", Ashley from Sinister and Hemorrhoid Sufferer #1 in a Preparation H. commercial....

Yes, I was talking about Justine. And, again, both Bridgette Andersen and Kaleena Kiff, who were "Young Mallory" in different episodes, can actually act.

I bolded the point you were making that I agree with.

Less than a quarter inch as annoying IMO as his real-life sister (and her character on another program). Both of his sister's character's "young" actors in flashback scenes (Misses Andersen and Kiff) were much superior in ability and likeability to her.

See: how *most* people were passive or complicit in Germany and German-occupied lands during the Nazi era and Vichy French head of state Marshal Petain had large and welcoming crowds on his visit to Paris in early 1944.

You always imagine after reading these stupid "... how she [usually a female actor from the 1970s/80s] looks NOW! posts, saying to the Comic Book Guys' that post them: "You look just like Audrey Hepburn" "Thank you" "As she is now" (Henry Davenport to Sally Smedley in "Drop the Dead Donkey" I lifted that from)

albeit, curdled.

Hopefully it will be Harriet "Hattie" Potter (and played by a much better actor than Hattie Jones was as Madeline in 1998--as with Demolition Man, that film was a waste of Nigel Hawthorne--"If you have Elvis, let him sing!" as the idiom goes).

Homer:

Yeah, it's also highly gendered this shaming and stigmatizing *looking pointedly in the direction of the popular image of the stereotypical Doctor Who con and fan club meeting attendee and characters such as CBG on The Simpsons*

Tina Fey made that broad point with Liz Lemon's adoration of Murphy Brown -- that people in the real world don't act like a female empowerment sitcom -- and I extend that to the reality that you can't shame people into watching a gender flipped film.