“This pop culture trope has been around forever. From Ralph Kramden to Homer Simpson to Phil Dunphy, sitcoms have long featured goofball dudes married to much shrewder women. As a comedic formula, it works. And what works in a 30-minute show will inevitably get used in a 30-second ad.” But a recent spot for Huggies diapers to a backlash; do the offended gentlemen have a point?
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Anita Steckel, 82, Artist Who Pushed The Boundaries Of Erotica
“Steckel’s paintings of naked men and women engaged in suggestive or explicit acts of sexual expression — and particularly her depictions of erections — set off a furor in 1973 when she included them in a one-woman show at the arts center at Rockland Community College in Suffern, N.Y.”