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That's even a common trope in sitcoms. The husband is a loveable but bumbling idiot, while his wife is the voice of reason who frequently needs to save him from
by hn8788 6y ago
That's even a common trope in sitcoms. The husband is a loveable but bumbling idiot, while his wife is the voice of reason who frequently needs to save him from his own bad decisions. I wonder if the shows are imitating life, or the other way around. My wife did her master's thesis on discrimination based on communication, and in her research she found a study showing that the constant depiction of people with a southern accent as being stupid leads the majority of southern children, as young as 10 years old, to view themselves as inferior to people without the accent. Maybe the same is true with TV shows and movies frequently showing males as stupid.
- steverb 6y agoI spent some serious time as teenager training myself out of my southern accent for this reason. You could have a PHD in Astrophysics, but if you speak with a southern accent people will assume you're an idiot. The only downside, is that I have a slight speech impediment, but it's mild enough that most people don't notice. And for some reason I still (25 years later) tend to pronounce hill as "heel".
- muskox2 6y agoHaha, I love having a southern accent for this reason. It makes it very hard for one to sound pretentious.
- remir 6y agoThis has been going on for a while in advertising as well.