When I was a youngster back in school, at least a couple of times, the teachers showed us a film called "Free to Be...You and Me." It had music and sketches and entertainers. At the time, it seemed different from anything else they would show us in school -- like it had a different message from the usual, but as a youngster, I couldn't quite figure out what exactly that message was.

Out of curiosity, many years later, I looked it up as an adult. Apparently it was originally a TV special for kids, meant to challenge traditional gender roles. It's been a long time since I was a kid, so this really was different for its time. Back then, it really was different for a woman to be the main money-earner for a family, or for a dad to be a stay-at-home dad. These days, gender stuff is regularly discussed on television, but back then, it was a really REALLY new thing in public discussion.

I'm not going to guess on whether it could ever actually be done, but wouldn't it be funny if a parody was produced called "Free to Be MGTOW...You and Me." Since MGTOW has some connections to gender and so on.

It could also be a TV special......um, wait, no it couldn't, ha ha......it would have to be on some MGTOW website probably. And forget about actual mainstream entertainers......no, it would have to be online MGTOW show hosts instead -- with their faces blurred out so they wouldn't get bothered for being MGTOW.

The original "Free to Be" had a song called "It's Alright to Cry." "Free to Be MGTOW" could have a parody of that song called "It's Alright to Ghost." Maybe they could get Sandman for that. So could you imagine the song starting with the voice "Hey everyone, Sandman here!" followed by the song, with Sandman playing guitar. The end of the song could finish with something based on how Sandman usually closes out his shows.

I think there were puppets in the original. They could do a segment with puppets where a MGTOW puppet gets torn into pieces by the other puppets, just for being MGTOW. The camera focuses on the torn-apart puppet on the ground. This is followed by some guy (a human), presumably some sort of production assistant, walking up and saying, "You guys just destroyed a seventeen-thousand-dollar puppet."

I haven't seen the original TV show since I was a kid back in school, so I can't remember anything else that could be turned into a parody as part of the show. Anyone else with a better memory, or remember what I am talking about, at all?