Unlike say, Tombstone pizzas?
If it’s so offensive why aren’t we hearing about the email campaign decrying it? It’s not like the stay at homes have anything better to do.
In 1975 a team from Manchester University answered either “Che Guevara”, “Karl Marx”, “Trotsky” or “Lenin” to all of their questions as a protest against Oxbridge colleges being able to enter separate teams as opposed to just having one Cambridge team and one Oxford team.
It didn’t work as a protest, but it did get broadcast.
He was really into the nutty chick yesterday.
…what? Just…what?
That’s what I call reading into stuff…
You guys do realize that Trebek has absolutely nothing to do with what topic is discussed during those “interviews”, right? The contestants give the producers a list of “fun facts” about themselves and the producers tell Trebek what to ask/start a discussion about about.
So, again (but with regard to this post): that’s what I call reading into stuff…
Harsh, man. Harsh.
Funny–I was just talking about him and watching the game on YouTube this weekend. I actually remember seeing that episode when it happened. I just assumed I saw a rerun, but it seems that until 2003, the episode was only shown that one time, the Press Your Luck people were so embarrassed about the situation, so I must have seen the original. (And it makes sense, as I loved that show as a kid and it was on during summer vacation.)
As mentioned above, the fish sticks thing didn’t take place in the context of the contestant interview. “Fish sticks” was the correct response to one of the clues, and Alex said something like “I bet you make a lot of those for your kids,” after the response was given.
While I don’t think that Alex’s various comments to the stay-at-home Dad rise much above the level of “mildly irritating” (and the contestant did chuckle at them), I would agree that he does have what I would call a fairly old-fashioned attitude toward the sexes. He often feels the need to comment when there are three women contestants, seems mildly surprised when women do especially well at the game, suggests that women are likely to have trouble with sports-related categories, and so forth.
It may not be as obvious from seeing one or two examples in isolation, but many people who watch the game regularly have noticed the pattern and commented on it.
I agree with the OP’s view towards Trebbeck’s comments. In particular, the question about whether his role was by choice or force is the most appalling, as it implies that no normal person would actually want to be a SAHP. If the guy was a plumber or a teacher, he would never be asked if that job was forced upon him. And I can’t imagine him saying that to a woman, mainly because of the disrespect implied to her spouse.
As someone who wishes more men were empowered to be the primary caregiver, I think quips like this are unhelpful.
Yes. I don’t know where I mentioned “the fish sticks thing”.
My comment was in reply to the quoted post, which wasn’t in reference to the fish stick comment, but what was said during the contestant interview & Trebek’s apparently finding a stay at home dad as noteworthy (despite his having nothing to do with that being the topic of discussion).
I quote the posts that I’m replying to for a reason.
Look carefully at the first quote in your post, the one from PSXer. Does it or does it not contain the words “fish sticks”?
Yes…And my reply to that post was:
…what does that have to do with the reply to the other post that you quoted and replied to?
You quoted & replied to:
which was in response to a completely different (also quoted) post.
^This, absolutely. And again, I wouldn’t claim that Trebek is a female-hater or anything along those lines; he’s just a man of his generation, who appears to see ‘gender roles’ as being distinct and different. He seems to see what’s proper for females as being something other than what’s appropriate for males. I’m not a fan of that attitude, but it is what it is: we have only one Jeopardy!
That was pretty funny; I’m looking forward to seeing what happens on the show, tonight!
I was going largely for cleanness of presentation, and quoting the largest chunk of your post while attempting not to be left with a batch of interleaved quotations, which are generally difficult to read (see above for an example of what it looks like). Since your ultimate reply to both criticisms was the same (“that’s what I call reading into stuff”) I figured that a reply to one implied a reply to the entire message. And I have to say that the distinction you are drawing between the mention of fish sticks and what takes place in the contestant interview was not at all clear to me. My apologies if this was confusing.
I stand by the remainder of my reply.
So would it be safe to say that Ajax is an anti-feminist?
Maybe get a blister on your little finger, maybe get a blister on your thumb.
Are you saying that Trebek gets money for nothing and chicks for free?
Baaaah*!* Being the primary caregiver is still usually the responsibility of the man. It’s called having a job*!* 
And staying at home is not empowering. No matter how you slice it, it’s emasculating. Political correctness be damned*!*
I agree with this. My father-in-law is around the same age and one of the kindest and all-around greatest human beings I have ever known, and he frequently makes comments that I just sort of laugh off.
I don’t know. But I do know I’d like to see him play the GItar on the MTV.
Why is it offensive to state that SAH parents have more free time? Objectively speaking, it’s true. Time use studies have consistently found that stay at home fathers have the most leisure time of all parents, and stay at home mothers have more leisure time than working fathers and mothers.