Yeah, bumbling men. If you'll think about it for a moment, at about the same time men began to be portrayed this way, business and government also began to be portrayed as from the dark side. In my opinion it is the subtle influences of the left to break down the confidence we have in our civilized institutions. Schools, about the same time, began to become institutions of socialism, political correctness and situational ethics.
Another thing that you'll see are "families" in advertising that have no men.
Before all you ladies start to jump down my throat, I work with, for, and admire women who have had to pick up their lives because of a man that was a skunk. I live with and have friends of the female gender that I admire and are role models for me and those that I love. We have become much more civilized because we are able to think in different tangents.
But when, over a long period of time, one sees our institutions slammed day in and day out, it becomes much easier for those institutions to become self defeating prophesies. It is much easier to divide us on many levels when this is accomplished. Look around and think about it.