What 'Parks and Recreation' Teaches Us About Being a Man| Image by Mondayne via Flickr Unlike pop-culture blogger
replica watches Alyssa Rosenberg I only watch a handful of television shows. One of my favorites is NBC��s Parks and Recreation
which is off to another great start this season. Alyssa also watches the show and makes this savvy observation: I give this show infinite props for
its awesome feminism but it��s actually a stealthily terrific show about what it means to be a man. From Tom who thinks the road to
happiness lies through the achievement of a particular lifestyle; to Ben who��s trying to prove that he��s worthy of
responsibility after a burst of teenage arrogance; to Andy��s maturation from unemployed lump to husband
fake swiss hublot big bang king watches the show is all about how to be a grown-up man without any resort to extreme violence or Pickup
Artist-style womanizing. And that doesn��t even get us to the Swanson Pyramid of Greatness: Ron Swanson is truly one of the greatest
characters to ever grace a television (or computer) screen. But Alyssa leaves out what I think is the most interesting �C or at least the
funniest �C way the show handlesmasculinity: Ron Swanson��s ex-wives. Ron has been married twice before
replica franck muller watches blancpain replica each time to a woman named Tammy. His mother is also named Tammy. I strongly suspect we will meet a third Tammy before the
show is over. In any case at different points during the series Ron encounters these ex-wives Tammy 1 and Tammy 2. Whenever he does the rugged
individualist libertarian man��s man that is Ron Swanson devolves into a completely codependent shadow of his former self. With Tammy 2
this manifests as a slightly dangerous borderline insane sexual affair. With Tammy 1 well let��s just say it��s a lot
creepier (her parting line in the last episode was ��I was there when he was born and I��ll be there when he
dies.�� Yikes.) Now as Alyssa mentions Parks and Recreation is a great feminist show
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on controlling women or anything like that. It does put a lie to the perception of Ron Swanson as anindestructibleAlpha male �C which is
humanizing in a really funny way. Follow me onTwitter or Facebook. Read my Forbes blog here.
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