Mary Tyler Moore's death and her influence on society

[zboy1]

For those unfamiliar with her, here's a NYT article detailing her life and influence:





Mary Tyler Moore, Who Incarnated the Modern Woman on TV, Dies at 80
http://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/25/arts/ ... .html?_r=0

Mary Tyler Moore, whose witty and graceful performances on two top-rated television shows in the 1960s and ’70s helped define a new vision of American womanhood, died on Wednesday in Greenwich, Conn. She was 80.

Mary Tyler Moore, beloved TV actress, dies at 80
http://edition.cnn.com/2017/01/25/enter ... index.html

"The Mary Tyler Moore Show" debuted in 1970 and starred the actress as Mary Richards, a single 30-something career woman at a Minneapolis TV station. The series was hailed by feminists and fans alike as the first modern woman's sitcom.

She was a beautiful actress and I recently watched some re-runs of the Mary Tyler Moore Show, which was a funny, charming show about a middle aged single woman who settles down in Minneapolis after breaking up with her boyfriend and then lands a job as a news producer for a local T.V. station.

My favorite part of the show is the opening theme, which is really catchy and iconic:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iztvQI9rexo[/youtube]

R.I.P. Mary Tyler Moore. Notice how feminine and beautiful she looked, not like the masculine looking woman of today. Plus, even though she was somewhat of a feminist on the show, she's nothing like the loud-mouthed bitches of today. Another positive: she was a Republican and supported McCain over Obama.


Having said this, she was not the woman she portrayed in public; in fact, in real life, she was somewhat of a bad person:
http://people.com/archive/cover-story-b ... -44-no-18/

As a poster on Roosh stated she:

she largely abandoned her son for her job, skipped his graduation.

her sister committed suicide and her son shot himself when he was 24. He was a gun collector and supposedly accidentally shot himself in the face.

she was an alcoholic, had plastic surgery, and cheated on her husband.

On the Roosh forum, reactions to her death have been negative:
http://www.rooshvforum.com/thread-60864.html

Their reactions and some on the traditionalist side argue that her show pushed a lot of liberal, feminist propaganda. That's why she getting all these plaudits from feminists in the media.

[zboy1]

Reactions to her passing from other web sites:

http://www.stormfront.org/forum/t1196872/


http://www.conservativereview.com/comme ... yler-moore


Why Mary Tyler Moore Refused to Join the Feminist Movement
http://dailysignal.com/2017/01/25/why-m ... -movement/





The reasons why some people have negative feelings on the Mary Tyler Moore show on society is due to it pushing some radical things during that time on T.V. for example:

http://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/25/arts/ ... ments.html


Yes, Miss Richards Has Sex

The point was not belabored but Mary Richards slept with her boyfriends. A real-life Chicago journalist had suggested that Mary, who was 30 when the series began, was “undersexed,” Ms. Silver said, and so in Season 3, Ms. Silver wrote an episode in which Mary asked her friend Rhoda if that was the case.

A few episodes later, Mary goes on a date and comes home the next morning in the same dress. “Men across the country wrote to the show in despair over the betrayal of their trust and admiration,” Jennifer Keishin Armstrong wrote in her 2013 book, “Mary and Lou and Rhoda and Ted: And All the Brilliant Minds That Made ‘The Mary Tyler Moore Show’ a Classic.”

“Let’s get her some sex.”

Susan Silver says that was one of her chief contributions as a writer on “The Mary Tyler Moore Show.” Playing the beloved young housewife Laura Petrie a few years earlier, Ms. Moore and her TV husband, Dick Van Dyke, had been made to sleep in separate beds. But it was the 1970s now. Even good girls had sex. Ms. Silver and the other women writing for “The Mary Tyler Moore Show” made sure of it.


Mary Is on the Pill

Had the Pill ever been mentioned in a sitcom script before “Mary Tyler Moore”? If so, the moment has been lost to history. Not long after the same-dress episode, Mary’s father, at loose ends after his retirement, is visiting Mary for dinner at her apartment. Mary’s mother, making her exit, turns at the door. “Don’t forget to take your pill!” she calls out. “I won’t,” father and daughter answer in unison. Cut to the comically guilty look on Mary’s face.

So, overall, do you think the Mary Tyler Moore show was a positive or negative influence on society. I have to say in my opinion, it was a negative influence because it caused an entire generation to believe in an empowered, feminist agenda, but, at the same, time, Mary Tyler Moore was not a feminist nor a liberal like most of Hollywood. I love her as an actor, and I love the Mary Tyler Moore show, but the negative influence on the show on society was more of the producers and writers fault, more than hers.

[Cornfed]

Her character was basically that of a single man who actually had a career. Of course the whole thing was shilling for the Jewish establishment.