I remember feeling weird about Home Improvement as a kid/teen during its original run. It had its funny moments, but then it also had stupid shit, like a debate about whether men or women were better, with Tim's argument winning because women didn't invent/discover as many things as men did. I remember yelling at the screen, "Of course women didn't do those things, because men have been holding women back for thousands of years!"

Young-me was just pissed because Tim made a stupid argument that could be used by idiot boys next time they wanted to dismiss me or other girls. I thought it was a mistake. Adult-me is pissed because now I can see that he was a bigot all along. The omission of women's plight wasn't a mere overlook of history, but a point that Tim would've never addressed on his show in the first place. Suppression of inconvenient facts is probably baked into his brain by now.