Why are husbands always made to look like idiots in TV shows and movies ?

Most sitcoms are formulated with stereotypes - that's essentially what they always have been, insulting.

Maybe they've been picking more heavily on men the last few years, but they traditionally picked on women in the 50's, 60's, 70's...

Neither is right. I can't watch 5 minutes of any of them without my blood boiling.

Choose other "entertainment."

Good, bad, or indifferent making females look like idiots is seem by many as demeaning and insulting to women but making males look like idiots is not...!

Not always. Just like women aren't always portrayed as scatter-brained and dumb.

It sounds like you choose to watch shows where they're targeting the lowest common denominator for the audience. I can't think of a single show I've seen where the husband is portrayed as an idiot. Maybe you should expand your viewing horizons.

I think you mean WHITE husbands. White straight men are the ONLY group it is acceptable to make fun of /criticise / portray as bad or stupid. Try making a show where the stupid person is a woman /gay /muslim / black /jewish / chinese etc and see where it gets you.

It's funny, isn't it..? Back in the 50's and 60's.......men were king, and all the tv shows, the Father was this all knowing wise man.........

Leave it to Beaver

Ozzie and Harriet

Father Knows Best

My Three Sons.

Even Happy Days.......shot in the 70's......but about the 50's....... shows the loving, smart parents.

then somewhere around "All in the Family" and Archie Bunker...... Dads suddenly went to loutish know- nothing buffoons....... flaming racists, and idiots.

then you got to the 80's and 90's.........with Al Bundy, and "Everyone Loves (Childish , Moron) Raymond, with the ever patient long suffering, smarter wife........treating him like a child.

Then Friends and Seinfeld tried to re-balance things again by showing both males and females as being stupid and shallow.................and then that was followed by a decade of cop shows, where both females and males all have these exciting and interesting careers, and are all smart as whips and can solve puzzling cases, with half an eaten cheese sandwich......and a quarter of a thumbprint on a nickel they found in the gutter.

Not sure where things are going next............perhaps "Young Sheldon" where the KIDS know more than both parents.

It sounds like you choose to watch shows where they're targeting the lowest common denominator for the audience. I can't think of a single show I've seen where the husband is portrayed as an idiot. Maybe you should expand your viewing horizons.

I'm not sure, but I'm probably older than you, because I can tell you it's been going on for longer than 20 years. Someone pointed it out to me about 32 years ago, and I've hardly seen any exceptions since then. The show West Wing featured quite a few smart male characters, but most of them were single. Even in that show, when there were couples, the woman was typically just slightly more "woke" than the man.

Humor is made from women knowing better than the men. I don't know why this is funny, but even I admit that it is, in a smartly written show. In a stupid show, you can't expect much of anything to be funny.

Maybe you just have bad program-makers in the USA. In the UK our TV series aren't like that.

Because people eat that sh*t up like it's candy. Give the *ssholes what they want.