Review of Designing Women

I've tried watching this show more than once, and I just don't see where the humor is. Designing Women is about Julia Sugarbaker (Dixie Carter), who is the president and founder of Sugarbaker & Associates, an interior design firm she runs out of her house. The main designer is Mary Jo Shively (Annie Potts), single mom of two kids. Jean Smart plays Charlene Frazier-Stillfield, Sugarbaker's office manager. Suzanne Sugarbaker (Delta Burke) is Julia's vain and shallow younger sister. She was made silent partner. Sugarbaker's delivery man (who, shocker, is black - played by Meshach Taylor), Anthony Bouiver, is an ex-convict who's attending law school. He later becomes a full partner. The jokes are terrible and the characters' dialogue is so boring. They just sit around and talk about nonsense. I'm a woman, and I find the show to be dumb. That's why I avoid TV shows and movies that are geared towards women. And it's not because I'm sexist - I love seeing actresses portray intelligent female characters. Notice I said intelligent. By that I mean, women who are concerned about other things besides relationships and the size of their breasts. Many shows and films that are targeted towards a female audience are vapid. I find it hard to believe the show's creators, Linda Bloodworth-Thomason and Harry Thomason, were liberal. With all of the stereotypes, I wouldn't have guessed this show was created by liberals, considering they're supposed to be progressive minded people. Since the show takes place in Atlanta, everyone has an over-exaggerated southern accent. The black male character is a delivery man, and he was in jail. That's nice he was eventually made a partner, but why give the black person the lowest job on the ladder? And why have him be an ex-con as his backstory? Suzanne only dates wealthy older men, and they're usually terminally ill (what the freak, how messed up is that???). And who can forget the episode where she puts on blackface in a talent show because she was impersonating one of the members of the Supremes... That should've been my cue to stop watching, but I went back for more. Sometimes I get annoyed with myself for my own dumbness. My favorite all female sitcom is Facts of Life. They dealt with more serious issues and the characters were teenagers! Designing Women is dated and humorless. Watch something else from the 80s.