Yet each time a person is called a bitch, a slut, a whore, that individualistic attitude is decomposed. Of course, the predominantly male audience only finds the humor of the bitch character if it is limited. She failed to follow the part that June Cleaver clearly laid out. Diane Chambers is an educated woman who verbally abuses the men on the show when an opportunity presents itself. Of course she only does so after being forced into a defensive situation.
Any intellegent woman is insane and needs a man.
She became a frazzled women ineptly stumbling through the process of gaining economical power through attempting to marry into it. She also had a few romantic interactions with Sam Malone. Any free thinking woman will eventually succumb to the subservient role cast on her with the thought that the only way to get ahead is to be dominated by men. Lilith is a character that refuses to play the game of accepting male patriarchy and thereby becomes an unemotional intellect with no personality and sexuality that compares to that of someone between death and rigor mortis. The point of delineating the stereotypes in Cheers is to demonstrate how the mass media not only describes, but also prescribes American stereotypes,including the female bitch image.