Modern Family? Not so much!!!

          I have a new obsession. Always a major television watcher, I am obsessed with the show Modern Family. I love it so much. I love how it has embraced a gay family and the constant foibles of the multi-generations. It has a great cast of character actors who I have loved on other shows and my friends and I are constantly quoting the show. Everyone on my facebook quotes it every Wednesday night in their statuses. And I swear to God that one of the gay men is my mother. I almost think they are watching her. I am constantly re-enacting scenes. Like I said, obsessed.

            I have just one problem with it. While I find it realistic in its content and the set up, I couldn’t help but notice that all three families are single income households. None of the women work and the more effeminate gay man in unemployed. How realistic or modern is that? According to the US Census, out of the 63 million women married right now, on 5.6 are stay at home mothers. We live in a society that since the 1950’s the American housewife has become a rarity. It’s come to a point that when the other day I heard an acquaintance said she aspired to be a housewife, I almost fell out of my chair.  I know there are women to want to be housewives and be with their children every minute of their childhoods but there seems to be a hell of a lot more women who want to have/need a profession and raise their children at the same time. Plus, even before the economy crashed and burned, most household depended on a double income. Now granted, in the show the men are very successful. Which in itself is very unrealistic since one of the guys is a real estate salesman and seems to be doing just fine. I suppose the argument is that if the men make enough money the women don’t need to work but are these writers incapable of realizing most women want to work?

            I realize its just a tv show, but I think it’s interesting that they so pointedly made the women/feminine gay man housewives. I mean they make a point of emphasizing that this is a modern family yet they have traditional male/female roles and single income households. Can anyone say Leave It To Beaver? I think it’s a real shame because they miss a great opportunity to show real women and the lives of the majority of mothers out there. 

An Introduction to Crystal McIntire Boyd

     They call me the Commodore. I'm not exactly sure why. I suspect it’s my bossy nature and tendency to lead, especially if it leading to trouble. I can be a wild woman but most of the time I'm oddly reflective. Highly neurotic, I'm constantly examining everything around me and in the world. I'd like to think of it as a pursuit for a higher meaning but I suspect it’s just an effort to make sense of the insane events that happen in our world and to me specifically.


My goals in life are varied and conflicting. I wish I could tell you what I want to do but I don't have a clue. I have a deadline for that hanging over my head, swinging like a pendulum that may signal my likely doom. Did I mention my flair for drama? No one does it better. I'm not a drama queen, I'm the drama Empress.


A great deal of this will be about conservative politics. It’s not my passion but it’s one of them. I want to be the Lady Gaga of conservatism. Shocking but undoubtedly talented. And Famous. Definitely Famous.


I believe in limited Government, common sense policy, fiscal responsibility and beating anyone who screws with us bloody. When it comes to foreign policy, I believe in carrying a stick, talking softly and having a hell of a lot of nuclear bombs to back your ass up. I suppose I would be a true libertarian except I believe that if someone threatens you, you hit them first and below the belt. It's called WAR not a freaking cotillion and the only point of fighting is winning. We can save the Marquis of Queensbury rules for when lives aren't on the line.


I believe we are the fulfillment of the Chinese curse that says: May you live in Interesting times.


However, whether we live in the worst of times or the best of times, it’s the only time we have. I sometimes feel like we are on the cusp of a renaissance and then some time I almost can hear the gurgle as slowly the world slides down the drain. Whatever the case may be, I hope this blog will be there to chronicle it.

Blog Launch!!!!

Look for this Blog to launch on February 28th, 2010!!! I'm planning one hell of a opening blogpost as well as all the deets from CPAC. Until then, enjoy some lovely memories from my old blog, the Dorothy Parker Inspired Fresh Hell of the Day. May it Rest in Peace.