God this is so SEXIST!

THANK YOU! I would have gladly dealt with that extra perk of witchcraft [as long as it was used for good] in a spouse! Darren forbade her to use her witchcraft. She initially tried to comply but you can't teach an old dog new tricks especially when your tricks are just so good!

I would have let Sam do her thing to make life easier [make the vacuum do its thing upstairs while I dusted downstairs or vice versa] as long as no one saw. Watch out for Mrs Kravitz.

Oh God. Fortune vomits on my eiderdown once more.

But Darrin is quite happy for Sam to use witchcraft when it suits him.
Take the episode where they were out in the car, if was dark and raining, and the car got a puncture.
Darrin had been prevaricating about how humans do everything fine without witchcraft, so Sam just sat there and let him change the wheel himself.
He got back in the car, soaking wet and complained that with a twitch of her nose, the puncture could have been fixed.
Sam said that humans do everything fine without witchcraft.
Darrin had no answer to that one.

Samantha did not leave it. She used it still....and besides Endora...etc always mouthed off to him too. She was not cooped up in some bottle. She was out and about.

That had nothing to do with Sam being a woman though.

Darrin just wanted to live a normal life, for some reason. I never really got what the attraction was though. Why would a powerful attractive woman like Sam want that dweeb?

“Jeannie, pretty well did what she wanted in spite of what Tony said, and Tony didn't object to Jeannie using her powers and try to make her be something she's not.”

Well yeah, except for when she pissed him off and he banished her to her bottle. That didn’t scream equality.

Jeannie never listenedto her "Master". She always did what she wanted even if it meant helping Tony Nelson against his wishes. It was pretty much the same with Samantha.

The shows did seem a bit 'sexist' to me when I was a kid. But now that I am older I see them in a different light. The men in the shows are supposedly in charge. But it's the women who have the power. If they choose not to use their power, it's only because they love their men and agree to go along with them. But really, has their ever been a man (and I am talking normal relationship, not an abuser) who could really control his wife AND have a happy home?

Have you ever seen the comedian Ralphie May? He said that his late father gave him great advice about marriage. A married man can either be right OR happy. LOL

There were a number of episodes on both shows where the women had enough and left. Both Tony and Darrin were left standing alone in their living rooms calling out, "I'm sorry. I love you. Please come back." These men were the heads of their households, true, but only because the women they loved voted for them!

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You are being sexist towards men by making that comment, since feminism is supposedly based on the women's right to choose.

But in the minds of many women, sexism towards men does not exist, since these women use selective-reasoning. (a nice term for entitlement)

Yet, women expect (and exploit) men to adhere to their rules in just as many households, but that's overlooked. I'd say women are equally, if not more sexist, than most men. Try to be nice, even you were influenced by your childhood experiences.

Why was Darren so against the witchcraft? The idea of a woman submitting to the house rules of her husband was extremely sexist, even for the era when this show aired
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Why did Samantha marry a man who was so against witchcraft? The idea of a man being forced to submit to providing shelter and food for his wife in the stressful workplace is extremely sexist in any era.

The Blue Djinn was portrayed by Barbara Eden's real-life husband. If he didn't have a problem with it no one else should.

but the whole premise was that she called him master--Sam never called darrin husband they called each other by their names

Sam also did not do a lot of giggling jumping up and down squealing. Yes both women are 'old' but Jeannie acts like little girl. Samantha at least comes across like an adult. She seems interesting to hang out with.

Jeannie seems like it would be more written for guys....the whole half naked young blond being owned by an astronaut fantasy. Bewitched seems like it's written for women/girls---who even if stuck @ home being housewife, find way to rebel w your relatives

Yeah. There were male genies as well. I don't think that aspect of the show was sexist.