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i don't want another beer. >> would you like another beer? >> oh, yeah. >> but it's always been from like the straight white man's point of view. >> i remember early sitcoms. i saw a mother, a wife in a cocktail dress all day long. and we'd sit there going, who the hell are these people? it was a denial of reality. >> ethel, we're going to have a baby. >> we got to see a pregnant woman on television wearing a dress that started from the neck and was like a tent. >> are we afraid of seeing a pregnant woman in the 1950s because it means that she has had sex? as if we didn't all come from a pregnant woman. >> and in the '60s, sitcoms were still stuck in perpetuating this 1950s suburban housewife mentality. but then it's this really interesting dynamic where you see tv trying to address the gender war that was coming.