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39order to avoid the punishment on Jerry Springer, he brings up a complaintagainst women showing their feelings. He demands that women not askmen, “to say ‘I love you’ over the phone…it’s hard…[when] we’re paying aminute to talk,” and attacks them yet again. Men keep women in a situationwhere no matter what they try to do they will fail. This same concept canalso be carried into the activities that women are allowed to do.Watching football, drinking beer, and wrestling are activities only formen, while doing the laundry, cooking dinner, and cleaning the house areactivities only for women. How many times have you heard that said inpopular culture, and especially in “Married…With Children”? Activities areusually split into two categories, one group of activities for men and onegroup for women. If women ever attempt to do an activity that is not“meant for them” they will be put down and laughed at, and sexism will bebrought into light. Eagly and Carli describe this problem in more detail whenthey state, “women can find it difficult to engage in and benefit frominformal networking if they are a small minority” and show the hugedifficulty that is faced (158). When one or two women work in an office fullof men, it may be hard for them to engage socially, in part due to thesexism that has spread from popular culture. In the mind of popular culture,women are only allowed to do activities that men deem fit, which usually areactivities that involve housework or beauty. Both of these types of activitiesmake the lives of men much easier and make their wives look better in theireyes. In “Married…With Children” Al treats his wife almost at the same levelas a slave and as just a pretty face. In a radically sexist remark, Al declaresto Jerry over the phone that, ”bowling is a man’s sport…if God had wantedwomen to bowl, he would have put their breasts on their backs,” thusmaking women into sex toys. Al would only allow women to bowl if he hadsomething to look at and if he gets something out of it. Following this sameconcept, Al says to one his friends, “those women really hit us where it