text: Just watched a show I'd never seen before. Here's two quotes from it:
  "My father said I'd never amount to anything. Man was he an asshole."
  and later, different character:
  Guy 1: "Fathers have a way of screwing their sons up."
  Guy 2: "Yup"
  
  I've never seen the show before so I don't know how typical this is but neither of the comments were necessary to the plot. They were just thrown in there because hey who doesn't like listening to a little male bashing? p.s. the fathers being talked about were white.
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  And I've seen lots and lots of shows and commercials with similar gratuitous male bashing. The question to ask is: who benefits from making men targets of derision, ridicule and anger?