Imagine a home improvement/real estate show which features a married couple who remodels homes for delighted owners. The husband is a level-headed, intelligent, hard-working, and ethical professional; his wife is a bumbling moron who can't do anything right, embarrasses her husband every chance she gets, does stupid antics just for laughs, and generally messes up everything she gets her hands on.Let's face it--such a show would receive blistering criticism from politicians and feminists, it would last maybe one or two episodes, it would be accused of furthering gender stereotypes, and its creators would likely receive death threats. However, such a show does now exist. It's called "Fixer Upper" but it's just a little different from the hypothetical show I described: the genders are reversed and the husband is the complete and embarrassing fool and moron, while his wife is the consummate professional who is always trying to control the damage he does.Today my girlfriend was watching this show and Chip Gaines was goofing around by wearing his baseball cap backwards over his face, conducting "demolition" by breaking boards with his head, and generally making a complete fool of himself. A few weeks ago he spent a couple of minutes stupidly attempting to drink out of a high-pressure pipe. Joanna Gaines was trying to contain her embarrassment while brilliantly redesigning every home she entered. Every single episode is the same situation.I know it's trendy to bash men on television, especially when the target audience is women. However, I'm wondering where the outrage is at the gender stereotypes and the nonstop ridiculing of Chip Gaines, who has turned playing a moron into a kind of art form. I find this kind of sexism repulsive and disgusting, and I speculate about the shrill outcry about sexism if the gender roles were reversed. The show is offensive due to its sexist perspective and stereotypes, so I'm wondering where all the indignation is.

My family and I enjoyed this show until we realized that the characters are anti-gay. If they are not anti gay, they have yet to state that. Their church is hostile to gay rights because it currently states, at the time of this writing, on their website that "marriage is between one man and one woman". Chip wrote a long essay which really didn't say anything other than they refuse to say one way or another, but by maintaining membership in an anti gay church, they are themselves anti gay. This is a show about homes, with people who fix up homes for families. Right now, in a majority of states, a home owner can LEGALLY block me from renting a home just because I'm gay. Also, if this TV show expects it's viewers to believe that the care about creating wonderful homes for families, why are they intentionally leaving out LGBT+ families? There has not yet been a gay couple on their show. If the hosts of this show support gay people, all they have to do is say that, and they refuse to. That tells me they are against my family.

I have watched every episode and love the interplay between the Gaines' family members. Joanna is the interior designer and Chip the faithful worker-bee husband. Their homes designs are unique and in good taste. It amazes me how the housing disasters they encounter are done to budget without cutting corners.Homes that more than likely would be tear downs in other areas of the country are given a new lease on life with the unmistakable distinctive mark of the Magnolia Company (Chip & Joanna). This is a fun family show that can be enjoyed by all with an upbeat outlook on life, home and people.

It all blends into a single page out of any design magazine you can pick up in a waiting room of your dentist's office. The tricks are: gray colored walls, french doors here and there, gotta have at least one distressed piece of furniture, a pergola outside, and get rid of every wall inside to create an open plan. This really gets boring and repetitive after a couple of episodes. It's a cute (but rather tiny) bag of design tricks and they just keep pulling out of it. Not stepping out of the comfort zone and playing it safe all the time is off putting. Also, not really functional for the families and their day to day lives. As one viewer said, no TV station is ever added to a living room, that is just so unrealistic.I liked the family, the kids and work on their farm house, but beside that, it's not that great of a show.Refresh, please!