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38to do in order to get ahead, they must always be careful how they behave.This aspect of their lives is extremely exaggerated in “Married…WithChildren” when Al and the rest of his No Ma’am clan state their demands forwomen. No Ma’am has taken over a show called “The Masculine Feminist,”starring Jerry Springer, and tied up the host in a chair with rope. Theystand around him with black masks to protect their identities and wear ashirt with “Ma’am” crossed out in red. Their look can be compared to thelook of the racist Ku Klux Klan, but they are sexist instead. Al starts off bysaying, “Every day for the past 30 years you high-heeled pitbulls blamed usfor everything,” and the sexism begins (“No Ma’am”). Going back to whatEagly and Carli stated in their article, women are trying to take some controlof their life and their husband, but they are only attacked for doing so. Thisis sexism since Al has taken control of his household and his wife, Peg, formany years, but he is never treated or described like a wild animal. Alstates that women have “nagged” about many topics, “from not being ableto go to Harvard to not being able to get into stretch pants,” and that he issick of it. In this situation, women are only taking a small amount of controlin order to help their husband live his life to the fullest, from gaining aneducation to keeping a healthy weight. For that reason, Al’s comment onceagain is extreme sexism since he takes much more control than Peg doeswithout being attacked.On the opposite side of the spectrum, which Eagly and Carli statedbefore as being “communal,” women still have the same problem (156).They try to be kind and show their feelings to their husbands, but areattacked again for doing so. Women are first asked to stop taking so muchcontrol, so they are forced to take less control and act only based on theirfeelings. That is what Eagly and Carli meant by the “double bind;” theymeant that no matter how women behave, either being communal or takingcontrol, they will be ridiculed (156). In one of Al’s demands for women in