Where Have All the Cowboys Gone?

Primetime television has caught on to the fact that women have experienced a societal surge in recent years and is capitalizing on the fact that the majority of television viewers are female by portraying this surge in its nightly shows. While series such as The New Girl, Two Broke Girls, and Whitney are almost entirely lady-centric, others such as Man Up, Last Man Standing, and How to Be a Gentleman focus on the modern man’s shortcomings. Once mocked for being too macho and out of the loop, “nowadays men get on their wives’ and girlfriends’ nerves by not being manly enough,” The New York Times observes.