The episode that I decided to review for this specific peer review was an episode of Family Guy where racial aspects truly came into play. In the episode described, all of the white police officers were sent back in order to get re-trained. This caused for every person to suddenly become black and be able to roam the streets freely. What Jenae did extremely well with this post was voicing her opinions in a clear and concise manner.
“It also speaks to me of how most of the world is like that, people of color have to act like that of "white" society just to be their equals.” I couldn’t agree with her more because it is often stereotyped throughout or pop culture that African Americans must act as Caucasians in order to be accepted into our society. Throughout the semester we have discussed racial inequalities in lectures, so I felt this was an appropriate topic for both of us to discuss upon.
Family Guy has been known to take a lot of hits at many aspects in our society today, and racism is something that the producers of the show have been doing consistenly. If I were to write up my own blog entry, I would discuss more on how the main characters were acting and if their new found sense of attitude correlated with the way people in our country act today. Unfortunately in the world we live in today, we are all claimed to be equals, however it is evident that people of different ethnicities are looked at from different spectrums, something I only hope can be changed for my grand children.
Questions:
1) Do you believe racism in our country will ever vanish?
2) Should television shows have more sensitivity on racial topics.
3) How much do you think shows like family guy, affect our younger kids as they move forward learning about life?
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You do very well in your blogs finding issues that appear in Family Guy and also in our class discussions. Reading through your blogs, I understood what the underlying argument was and could see how someone who wasn’t familiar with the show could understand what was being discussed. Many issues that you talked about, such as the Latino maid, were repeated in multiple episodes. It might give your argument more support if you showed how often these issues were being brought up throughout the course of the show. In blog seven you spoke about the Season 2, episode 10 where Peter is accused of sexual harassment at work (Family Guy: Season 2, Episode 8, 2000). It would have been good to go into more detail as to what it was that got Peter in trouble to begin with and how he first reacted to the situation. You might also mention that even though Peter is sent away to learn more about respecting females, he comes back as the “stereotypical” feminine woman showing over emotion and worried about his looks (Family Guy: Season 2, Episode 8, 2000).
ReplyDeleteOverall I think that your blogs really connect to what has been discussed in class. Your blog about the Latino maid tied in very well with what we were discussing as far as what would be considered a “woman’s job” and what is considered to be an “immigrant woman’s job.” I do think that you could have gone a little more in depth to how the family favors their male child more than their female child and how Meg is treated by everyone around her.
Here are a couple questions that I have:
- How do other characters in the show view women of color (for example Quagmire and Stewie)?
- What are some of the other forms of discrimination in the show that you have not discussed yet?
- Do you feel that shows like Family Guy are setting a bad image for children (or even people of all ages)?