Arold Buckley dissects Honeymooner TV show comic reference

Arnold Buckley
   The honeymooners was a TV program with a misogynist blue collar loser husband who was so poor that they couldn't even have kids. Ralph Kramden often threatened his wife which was way out of his league for reality and would come very close to striking her on the program. Spousal abuse was apparently comedy in fifties early television America and I think every episode had one line where Jackie Gleason's character threatened to punch his wife Alice so hard she would land in the moon.

 The power of the one wage household often lead to threats of violence and actual violence towards women when their line of thinking did not match the man of the house who has breadwinner and  felt to rule with an authoritarian mentality. If anything helped push women towards pursuing careers and education it must have been the popularity of this program and women seeing the pathetic property rights of the male lower-class mentality in society through this "classi' programming. I recently seen a cartoon comic of this reference in American lingo and had to search it out to see if it was recent or old drawings. As a comic drawing buff I am surprised I hadn't come across this comic and wondered what year it came. It seems that there was a bunch of Alice Kramden type moon comic strips as the legacy of this program and Ralph's verbal assault as comedic material well established through the years. as a social critic and comic artist myself I had to say a few words of this disgust attitude and insidious remarks passed as comedyy. The fact that few questioned or there was even a platform to question help ride these moon  remarks and the honeymooners into popularity for many years in reruns as men wished to rerun recent history when their property rights included women.