handing down the acts, and you have felt guilt for validating that culture? i spent nearly 30 years in the restaurant industry, an industry and culture that has been traditionally pervasively hostile to women. i celebrated that it was a very difficult 30 years, and in my first book that made my career, i think i i was so proud of having survived that i rom romanticized that culture and celebrated it in a way that i think unintentionally but it validated the worst instincts of meat head bro culture. first it s an acknowledgment and you are talking about it in a way many people wouldn t acknowledge. where is your head now on what
but i shave. too bad you always lose that argument. what was it about all in the family that was so different? i wasn t aware it was different. writing out of my own experience. i grew up with father who insisted i was laziest white kid he ever met. you re a meat head. what? dead from the neck up. meat head. norman lear blows lid off what a family sitcom is. we were writing about what we knew, what was happening in our families, up the street, down the street, across from each other. that s how we got to real problems. brother to brother talk about to put it delicately, about the birds and the bees. i have to study right now. i ll teach you about sex some other time okay? norman lear give you all in the family, good times, the jeffersons, different looks at
teeth and i have to shave. i hate to shave. mornings that i debate with the mirror. should i shave or cut my throat? i shave. too bad you always lose that argument. what was it about all in the family that was so different than the things that came before? i wasn t aware there was anything different. i was writing out of my own experience. i grew up with a father like archie bunker who insisted i was the laziest white kid he ever met. you are a meat head. and meat head dead from the neck up. meat head. norman leer blows the lid off what a family sitcom is. oh, archie! we were writing about what we knew. what was happening up the street, down the street, across the street. that s how we go the to the real problems. it s time we had a brother to brother talk. to put it delicately a talk
debatesing should i shave or cut my throat, but i shave. too bad you always lose that argument. what was it about all in the family that was so different? i wasn t aware it was different. i was writing out of my own experience. i grew up with father who insisted i was the laziest white kid he ever met. you re a meat head. what? dead from the neck up. meat head. norman lear blows lid off what a family sitcom is. we were writing about what we knew, what was happening in our families, up the street, down the street, across from each other. that s how we got to real problems. i think it s time we had a brother to brother talk, or to put it delicately, a talk about the birds and the bees. i have to study right now. i ll teach you about sex some other time okay?
family that was so different? i wasn t aware it was different. i grew up with father who insisted i was laziest white kid he ever met. you re a meat head. what? dead from the neck up. meat lead. norman lear blows lid off what a family sitcom is. we were writing about what we knew, what was happening in our families, up the street, down the street, across from each other. that s how we got to real problems. brother to brother talk about the birds and the bees. i have to study right now. i ll teach you about sex some other time okay? norman lear give you all in the family, good times, jeffersons, different looks at niched versions of the american