I watched an episode of Family Guy called "You may now kiss the...Uh...Guy".. In this episode we are introduced to Brian's (Brian is the dog) friend Jasper. Jasper gets off the plane wearing a pink shirt, with an earring in his right ear accompanied by "Ricardo, from the Philippines and my kitchen floor". Upon his arrival Jasper announces that he and Ricardo are getting married at Lois's house. Chris, Lois's son who has joined the Young Republicans is appalled and says "The Bible says gay marriage is an abomination."
In the mean time the mayor spent all the towns tax money on a gold frog statue and he wants to create a diversion so he decides to ban gay marriage. Brian wants to be there for Jasper so he becomes an activist for overturning the ban on gay marriage and goes all over town trying to get people to sign a petition. Lois is not sure how she feels about gay marriage and does not want Jasper to get married at her home, she refuses to sign Brian's petition and says "There's something about gay people getting married, I don't think its right".
Brian ends up getting the signatures he needed but the mayor still refuses to overturn the ban so Brian holds him hostage. During all the hoopla Lois realizes that if two people love each other they should have the right to get married. The episode ends with the mayor deciding he doesn't need the bill now that everyone is distracted by the hostage situation and Jasper and Ricardo getting married at Lois's house.
I think that this episode of Family Guy depicted every gay stereotype that the Media has ever depicted, from the way that Jasper spoke and dressed to the religious and political debates about gay marriage today. We watch Lois transform from being against gay marriage to having the wedding at her home. The end of the episode was a very idealized way of watching someone's views change and of the future of gay marriage which is very current to our time.
The production team of The Family Guy seems to have something against "gays" and the audience should see it as "funny." They get away with it because of MEDIA - allowing such negative ways of portraying other human beings.
ReplyDeleteI have never watched this show but I have heard things about it, some of the same things you mentioned. This show is very popular , I hear alot of people talking about it all the time, alot of men watch it and seem to think the jokes are hilarious.
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