I'd just like to point out to Brent that the amount of rice for Arroz con Pollo was a plot point of "Job Switching," an episode where Fred and Ricky take up hte domestic chores while Lucy and Ethel go to work. In fact, it is RICKY who does not know how much rice to use. He figures a pound a person.

Actually it's not the salesman or Ford who are being sexist to Lucy, it's Ricky/Desi. A car is a man's thing and his Cuban machismo won't let him acknowledge that this could be simple enough for a woman, let alone Lucy (remember this is a woman who doesn't know how much rice to use to make a simple dish like Arroz con Pollo or how much yeast to put in a loaf of bread). As for the salesman, HE knows that while Lucy might like the car it's Desi/Ricky who is going to by it because of the gimmick of the retractable hard top. (Unfortunately for Ford, too few husbands were sucked in by the expensive and complicated gimmick - sales on that model bombed and it's only now that we're seeinng a revival in the manufacture of hardtop convertible coming from Mercedes and BMW.)

So are we upset that Ford was once horribly sexist and has since went on to become a trendsetter for corporate diversity, or at Lucille Ball for being a total sellout and playing her dumb homemaker routine to ad (literally) nauseam?

Can Kim Cattrall be reached for comment?