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DALLAS: what made it stand out above the other soaps?
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<blockquote data-quote="Kenny Coyote" data-source="post: 159021" data-attributes="member: 102"><p>Could another thing that set Dallas apart from the other soaps be that it appealed to men more? I'm just asking because I haven't seen other soaps but soaps have a reputation for being aimed at women - that's where the name "soap opera" came from. Soap and household cleaning products advertised heavily on soap operas because they knew it was a primarily female audience.</p><p></p><p>Dallas is different in that it's rugged enough to appeal to men. The western feel and Texas attitude i.e: real men get in fights when they're upset - they didn't talk things out - and that was fine because no man would even think of suing over a fight. That would be embarrassing to sue! I mean that too. Can you picture Ray Krebbs taking some roughneck to court because they got in a fight and Ray ended up getting hurt? Why the hell would he want to make it any more public than it already was that he got his ass kicked? They had pride. The last thing he'd want is for it to get into the newspapers that somebody whipped him so bad that he had to go to the hospital. Even worse, to ask the guy for money to make up for the pain he put him through???</p><p></p><p>Texans, [USER=237]@Lastkidpicked[/USER] am I right about these attitudes? Texans, and therefore Dallas men have a more rugged mindset (in general) than most people do and the fights, the rodeos, that a man like Jock who had what was for the most part a desk job, as anyone running a company does, could still do physically rugged things like work on a cattle round-up on his day-off from the office, that his idea of a good vacation was a hunting trip, all demonstrate that rugged attitude that the show Dallas just exuded.</p><p></p><p>EDIT: I should make it clear that I'm referring specifically to the time period when Dallas aired. At that time not only had women been the primary watchers of soap operas, but something about the "prime time soap" made it more appealing and even more acceptable for both genders to enjoy watching. I think that if a man watched daytime soaps in the 1970s he probably wouldn't have been too likely to tell his friends about it. I was just a kid then so I could be wrong but I don't think I ever heard of men watching daytime soap operas in the 1970s, even if the man was at home during the day because he had a job where he worked a night shift.</p><p></p><p>I realize that these days while there still are to some extent "men's shows" and women's shows", the lines have become far less delineated and both men and women are more likely to watch shows that in earlier times they wouldn't have. We can talk about the agenda of trying to make the genders more and more similar and whether we perceive it as a positive or a negative thing but I think that's for a different thread and maybe for an entirely different forum.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Kenny Coyote, post: 159021, member: 102"] Could another thing that set Dallas apart from the other soaps be that it appealed to men more? I'm just asking because I haven't seen other soaps but soaps have a reputation for being aimed at women - that's where the name "soap opera" came from. Soap and household cleaning products advertised heavily on soap operas because they knew it was a primarily female audience. Dallas is different in that it's rugged enough to appeal to men. The western feel and Texas attitude i.e: real men get in fights when they're upset - they didn't talk things out - and that was fine because no man would even think of suing over a fight. That would be embarrassing to sue! I mean that too. Can you picture Ray Krebbs taking some roughneck to court because they got in a fight and Ray ended up getting hurt? Why the hell would he want to make it any more public than it already was that he got his ass kicked? They had pride. The last thing he'd want is for it to get into the newspapers that somebody whipped him so bad that he had to go to the hospital. Even worse, to ask the guy for money to make up for the pain he put him through??? Texans, [USER=237]@Lastkidpicked[/USER] am I right about these attitudes? Texans, and therefore Dallas men have a more rugged mindset (in general) than most people do and the fights, the rodeos, that a man like Jock who had what was for the most part a desk job, as anyone running a company does, could still do physically rugged things like work on a cattle round-up on his day-off from the office, that his idea of a good vacation was a hunting trip, all demonstrate that rugged attitude that the show Dallas just exuded. EDIT: I should make it clear that I'm referring specifically to the time period when Dallas aired. At that time not only had women been the primary watchers of soap operas, but something about the "prime time soap" made it more appealing and even more acceptable for both genders to enjoy watching. I think that if a man watched daytime soaps in the 1970s he probably wouldn't have been too likely to tell his friends about it. I was just a kid then so I could be wrong but I don't think I ever heard of men watching daytime soap operas in the 1970s, even if the man was at home during the day because he had a job where he worked a night shift. I realize that these days while there still are to some extent "men's shows" and women's shows", the lines have become far less delineated and both men and women are more likely to watch shows that in earlier times they wouldn't have. We can talk about the agenda of trying to make the genders more and more similar and whether we perceive it as a positive or a negative thing but I think that's for a different thread and maybe for an entirely different forum. [/QUOTE]
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