Television women, particularly the housewives, have sure...

Television women, particularly the housewives, have sure changed over the years, unfortunately for the worse. In the earlier years of TV they may have been passive, somewhat naive and subservient, but at least they were friendly, normal and family oriented. Now they’ve become aggressive, confused, argumentative, weird and even violent.

They have regressed from Mrs. Cleaver to the “Axe Lady” (“A Killing in a Small Town”), a housewife who made a point about the inherent dangers of repressed childhood; from Donna Reed to the “Log Lady” (“Twin Peaks”), who prefers talking to her trusty piece of wood rather than to people, and from Harriet Nelson, who raised her actual two sons on their family TV show to Diane Downs, who tried to kill her three children (“Small Sacrifices”) in order to prove her love to her boyfriend, who didn’t like children.

If this is women’s liberation, something has gone terribly wrong.

Kenneth L. Zimmerman, Cypress