Later, Brad stops Angela from making him a sandwich, and when she insists that she doesn’t mind, he says: “Well, I do,” later adding: “I like you… I don’t think a girl should do stuff for a guy when he can do it on his own.”
Since being posted to TikTok, this clip has been liked almost 200k times, and racked up thousands of comments — with many of them saying the same thing.
“this would be called woke today,” a popular comment reads. Somebody else echoed: “They tried to do a story like this these days MAGA would call it ‘woke’ and call for a boycott of everyone involved.”
“Funny how back then the audience would have perceived the dad as a ‘good man’, whereas now the same audience would call him ‘woke/soft/leftist,’” another user added.
“now you would have 300 guys complaining it’s woke,” one more agreed, while somebody else observed: “It’s almost like ‘wokeness’ that people keep referring to has always been there, it just wasn’t wrapped up in inflated egos fueled by political rhetoric.”
And one more concluded: “I got so many of my lessons in being a man from 90s sitcoms. Just human lessons, not activists lessons.”
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