Maybe it should but I’m taking issue precisely with the assertion that this is simply some neutral objective portrayal. I think that’s incredibly naive.
I don’t think they’re perverted monsters, I just don’t think they have any business being married or raising children as their own. A child can only have one father, not two.
This has to be a joke, right? So you hate a show about monogamous couples and love a show about a guy always trying to cheat on his wife and teenage kids having premarital sex?
Very perceptive! You got me there. Johnmann wins
What TV show ever presented gay men as “perverted monsters”? I think you’re projecting a preconceived notion on others.
Indeed. There’s an obvious message in the seeming normalcy of how it is portrayed.
I think it’s kind of apples and oranges. I never particularly liked “Married with Children” because the tone was so cynical and sour, it squashed (for me) any impulse to laugh at the (alleged) comedy. It was also a sitcom so more about broad comedy and didn’t have any high-minded morals to impart as I suspect “Modern Family” does.
Married with Children? Ugh. Might as well have been called the Dysfunctional Parents Show. The wife doesn’t do much and she’s married to a man who is not ambitious, a whiner, reluctant to have sex with her, a couch potato and a fan of Hooters. The daughter has a bit of morality as she exits a car with a guy whose idea of a date is POOGO - put out or get out. And the son? He’s out in “No Parental Guidance Wanted” land.
You have to teach the peasants to accept gay relationships. It’s “modern”! Yeah, about as modern as gay relationships were 20 years ago. Yawn.
Ummm, because not everyone judges a person by his or her looks?
). But they do generally try to do the right thing in the end, and, as much as they squabble, they love and support each other and deal the best they can with their family as it is today.Yes, it is very clear that TV networks are trying to push the gay agenda, by showing gay characters living normal lives, raising kids, being good people, doing good things for others, going thru struggles that everyone else does on a daily basis, etc. LOL I would think anyone could see thru this, but it seems alot of people have already been brainwashed!
you did a good job explaining the show, but that is not even close to the modern family. I have never heard of anyone living remotely like any of those characters.I’m saddened but not surprised that so many people on this site don’t get Modern Family.
Why would someone as gorgeous as Sofia Vagara marry someone like Ed O’Neill’s character? Perhaps because she’s a single mother who has had her fill of men who can’t see past her looks and finds a fairly wealthy man who is smart enough to have created a successful business, is gruff but basically kind, and treats her son as his own, even though their tastes and interests are completely opposite, to be just what she needs.
It’s pretty apparent that the O’Neill character is very uncomfortable with his son’s homosexuality. Given the fact that he’s far from reticent, it’s pretty unlikely that he wouldn’t have made that fact known to his son. But this is a sitcom, not a morality play, and a discussion like that on screen would be out of place. So he continues to love his son (that whole “hate-the-sin-love-the-sinner” thing) and does the best he can to maintain a relationship.
I don’t think it’s unintentional that the gay couple who strive so hard to be perfectly correct are creating a bratty child. I think it’s an intentional poke at the downside of political correctness.
The rest of the characters are often shallow, vain, selfish, jealous - just like most of the people in my family. (Not I, of course.
Frankly, I think there are many shows that are far worse than MF.
This is how I see it – “teaching the peasants”.
Name one popular tv show where any of the main characters are catholic. Ive never seen one.
This reminds me of the quote from Billy Graham," If God does not destroy America, he would have to apologize to Sodom and Gomorrah"
Exactly - it’s not like the other children in the show are wonderful in their behaviour compared to Lily.