The two episodes I selected to analyze, the main character of FAMILY GUY, Peter Griffin, refers to women in a complete derogatory manner, consistently through the shows. A specific example of this is in the first episode is when Peter says “Drive? It’s illegal for a woman to be able to drive.” The manner he said it though was in a chauvinistic fashion and he was implying that woman should not have the write to drive a car.
Throughout the shows seasons, Peter and other characters are completely negative toward women FAMILY GUY: Season 2, Episode 1o. Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation 1999. In the second episode I watched, Peter is accused of sexual harassment and must attend a women’s retreat. He comes back from the retreat and is a complete feminist and over exaggerates on many details. It gets to the point where he even believes that he should go through pregnancy. In fact, on the back of his car he has a bumper sticker that says “My other penis is a vagina” FAMILY GUY: Season 5, Episode 12. Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation 1999
With both of these episodes, it is contrasting the different ways that women’s are being looked on upon today. On the one hand the show stressed that women are shown on a lesser spectrum than men, while in the second episode it emphasizes that we must go out of our way to please women, and rather with this situation we are not treating them as equals, however we are going out of our way to make them more highly accepted in our society. In conclusion, both shows reflect on views of women, and how they are differed not only throughout our media, but our nation as well.
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Blog 6 Family Guy
In the fan video posted by Dabrat242 “Family Guy Fan Video” Dabrat242. “Family Guy Fan Video” You Tube July 21 2008 < http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0kMnCk0LQ88 > 03/08/2009, she focuses on the stereotypical issues that face that are expressed in the show Family Guy, throughout it’s series The way that this correlates with some of the readings I have completed is specifically directed to the attitudes towards women.
In the report from Okinawa, she explains that black women feel that there is no love from the world. “Many black women feel that we live lives in which there is little of no love” “Living to Love” Women’s Lives Multicultural Perspectives Fourth edition (1993) p. 231 From reading this passage continuously, I have come to the conclusion that she believes that there is no love from the world specifically to black women. This is something I have noticed from the clip, was that they show one of the main characters wife, named Loretta is shown as being a moody women, with a stranglehold on her husband. Aside from the clip, this is something that is expressed consistently throughout the show as well.
The creator of the clip is representing the off the wall type of show that Family Guy is. It shows wacky moments such as a baby holding a gun, or the main character Peter thinking as if though he was an infant. It did a great job of voicing how the characters in the show, are each representing a different part of culture that we have here in the United States. I believe when it comes to oppression, the main reference that the creator of the clip is showing, is the fact that we as a society are still not comfortable around one another. There were clips where you would see a black man and a white man, and they both had looks of confusion on their face, rather than smiles. This clip is speaking out to everyone, because it shows It shows that our nation, although has over come so much together, still can’t unite as one.
In the report from Okinawa, she explains that black women feel that there is no love from the world. “Many black women feel that we live lives in which there is little of no love” “Living to Love” Women’s Lives Multicultural Perspectives Fourth edition (1993) p. 231 From reading this passage continuously, I have come to the conclusion that she believes that there is no love from the world specifically to black women. This is something I have noticed from the clip, was that they show one of the main characters wife, named Loretta is shown as being a moody women, with a stranglehold on her husband. Aside from the clip, this is something that is expressed consistently throughout the show as well.
The creator of the clip is representing the off the wall type of show that Family Guy is. It shows wacky moments such as a baby holding a gun, or the main character Peter thinking as if though he was an infant. It did a great job of voicing how the characters in the show, are each representing a different part of culture that we have here in the United States. I believe when it comes to oppression, the main reference that the creator of the clip is showing, is the fact that we as a society are still not comfortable around one another. There were clips where you would see a black man and a white man, and they both had looks of confusion on their face, rather than smiles. This clip is speaking out to everyone, because it shows It shows that our nation, although has over come so much together, still can’t unite as one.
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