AMC wives are some of the most controversial and widely derided characters on TV in both the media and internet chat rooms simply because they're "crazy bitches". However, they do have their defendants that claim these characters are misunderstood and that "the main characters are just as bad, if not worse".
Your challenge, if you choose to accept it, is to create a scenario where defendants, or apologists of AMC wives are the more dominant view on the Internet--It dosen't mean that they agree with what these characters do, but instead have more empathy over derision over these characters. It could be a casting change since some accuse these characters of been poorly acted, or a cultural change in the 20th century that never happened or was poorly handled OTL that may make us more emphatic to these peple with a POD no earlier than the 50s or 60s.
Bonus points if no one ends up hating the main male characters to the same level.
So is this all possible, or ASB?
NOTE: I am well aware that there's a good case made out there that people are
supposed to hate these characters. In that case, it can still mean this WI can be in effect as the cultural changes in human psyche could mean excessive
Draco in Leather Pants(through this was evident with the protagonists) and acting against the creator's wishes.