Steve Wilkos is the MAN!

For my first post about gender on this blog, I would like to attack the beast that is Steve Wilkos. Anyone who is at all familiar with The Steve Wilkos Show will understand exactly why I have chosen his show about which to write. Steve Wilkos is, in my opinion, a manly man. He is a great provider, loves his wife and kids, and will verbally beat down any man who does not do just the same. Steve is a former police officer and marine and, even just based on that, he is real man. Steve Wilkos has very high morals and holds everyone on his show to those same morals. The way Steve treats women, specifically, draws me to his show. Countless women come on Steve's show and talk about their boyfriends or husbands or baby's daddies and say how they beat them while they were pregnant or choked them or, in one case, ripped their tongue out! Steve's reaction to these men? "IS THIS HOW YOU TREAT THE WOMAN YOU LOVE?!?!?!" Oh yeah. Total screaming manly awesomeness. Steve Wilkos has no hesitation about voicing how he feels about dirt bag men that abuse women and, to me, Steve's ideas about men and women are the ones everyone should have. In one show, Steve even says that his wife could throw boiling water in his face and he'd simply walk away; he'd never hurt her back. I think The Steve Wilkos Show is the perfect place where strong manly men (or man, in this case) intersect with weak willed women. 90% of the female guests that Steve has on his show are in abusive relationships that they are too weak to leave. For me, that is the opposite of how a woman should live her life. I feel that women need to be strong, independent people that are capable of living their own successful lives without the help of any man. However, should they choose to spend their life with a man, he should be one like Steve who is caring, nurturing, masculine, and will provide well. I don't think that the clash between strong men and weak women is in any way a premise of this talk show, but I do feel that, despite that, it is a prime example of various ideas about men and women and their self respect, or lack thereof, in today's world. Ironically, I find myself siding with Steve than with the women on his show because, really, those women are just weak and annoying.