The America that the show idealized — a society in which every man had a job, inequalities of wealth were muted, and people were bound together in a tight community — no longer existed, either.
Ephraim Lytle, assistant professor of Hellenistic History at the University of Toronto, said 300 selectively idealizes Spartan society in a "problematic and disturbing" fashion, as well as portraying the "hundred nations of the Persians" as monsters and non-Spartan Greeks as weak.
Romanticists of the later 18th century idealized Norwegian rural society, with its free peasants in a wild landscape.
Whether it's the media's double standards ("Julia's Last F**kable Day"), hip-hop's contemporary ass-obession ("Milk, Milk, Lemonade"), the ludicrous articles in so-called women's magazines ("Sex Prep") or our illusory perceptions of what we should look like ("New Body"), Schumer brilliantly satires the images of women idealized by our society, and the harmful ways in which we respond.
To those who had never interacted with other groups, Fox News, Rush Limbaugh, and now the alt.right movement - as conduits for the GOP's elites - told them that the very society they idealized and the country they loved was being destroyed by lazy minorities, criminal illegals, terrorizing Muslims, and predatory homosexuals.
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While most societies idealize the role of the mother, her domestic work is consistently undervalued or unpaid.
But there is nothing idealized or romantic about the difference between a society whose arrangements roughly serve all its citizens (something otherwise known as social justice) and one whose institutions have been converted into a stupendous fraud.
"Love Sick" occupies a middle ground between the insipid fantasies of B.L. genre and the slice-of-life approach of serious dramas about gay youth that take a polemical tone advocating tolerance — an issue with a blunted impact in societies that not only accepted but idealized homosexual liaisons until the modern era.
