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In this op-ed, Oliver Lee Bateman explores the problematic and hurtful comedy in some of your favorite throwback TV shows.Rachel Green and Ross Geller interview a male nanny
. That disturbing interview scene, intended by the show’s writers to elicit some easy laughs, will probably make you cringe — if it doesn’t cause you to stop watching altogether. Actor David Schwimmer, embodying Ross’s swaggering, sometimes-toxic masculinity, gets straight to the point: “You’re gay, right?” he asks the prospective “manny.” Ross goes on to spend several minutes in an alpha-male posture that reeks of hostility, rolling his eyes when the “manny” talks about how much he enjoys spending time with children. This episode, “The One With the Male Nanny,” aired in 2002, yet it seems decades removed from what would fly on modern-day television.
The fact that a sitcom or film happened to be forward-thinking for its era doesn’t mean we should refrain from critiquing it now. ‘90s nerd-oriented indie comedies like
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