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This week I watched a Family Guy episode called “Peter’s Job Hunt”. Family Guy: Season 5, Episode 19. Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation 1999. Seth MacFarlane and David Zuckerman. In this episode, Peter discovers that he is an illegal immigrant from Mexico and is fired from his job. After struggling to find a new job, he finally comes across a newspaper ad for a hotel that is hiring maids. While working at the hotel, Peter dresses in a women’s maid uniform and speaks with a women’s ethnic accent. This scene relates to the article from the textbook in Chapter 8, “Defining Women’s Work”. Gwyn Kirk and Margo Okazawa-Rey. “Defining Women’s Work. Women’s Lives Multicultural Perspectives. Fourth Edition. 2007. (339-340). The text states that “most women in the workforce do “women’s work” in service and administrative support jobs, as secretaries, waitresses, and health-aide.” Gwyn Kirk and Margo Okazawa-Rey. “Defining Women’s Work. Women’s Lives Multicultural Perspectives. Fourth Edition. 2007. (339-340). The Family Guy episode demonstrates the prejudice that women face within the work field. The way that Peter portrayed a hotel maid represented the job in negative connotation for both women and immigrants. Later in the episode, Peter finds a job opening in a newspaper ad for a nanny position. While reading the ad, Peter says “Nanny wanted. Well that that’s a perfect job for a immigrants.” Family Guy: Season 5, Episode 19. Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation 1999. Seth MacFarlane and David Zuckerman. This is a perfect example of gender profiling. Despite the labor that jobs such as hotel maids entail, the wages that the employees receive dramatically differ from the wages of other careers that males usually dominate in the industry. The way Peter depicted the role of women in the work force was offensive and presented false information.

Blog 2 Family Guy

In this weeks show on family guy was called “I Am a Lesbian” Family Guy: Season 4, Episode 19. Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation 1999. Seth MacFarlane and David Zuckerman. In this episode Meg which is the daughter in the family try’s to convince her mother that she has become a lesbian. Meg’s mother does not believe her so she tells her to kiss her girlfriend. When she does she gives her a kiss on the cheek and her mother says “ What was that, what is she your grandmother. That’s no kiss watch this “I Am a Lesbian” Family Guy: Season 4, Episode 19. Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation 1999. Seth MacFarlane and David Zuckerman. After she gave her a kiss on the cheek her mother went up to Meg’s girl friend and started making out with her.
When I saw this episode it really reminded me of the reading we did this week “The All-American Queer Pakistani Girl” because the daughters in the reading and in the show both had to tell there mothers that they had become lesbians. Even though the mothers acted totally opposite from each other. In the show Meg’s mother was very exceptive of her daughters decision and in the reading the mother pretty much threw her out of there family. In reading and watching both sides of how mothers act when there daughters tell them that they have become lesbians, if I had a daughter and she told me that she has became lesbian I would go with the approach that Meg’s mother did in family guy. That is excepting that her daughter is a lesbian because it is there life and they can follow there heart in any direction that it leads them to.

Blog 1 Family guy

I have been watching a lot of different family guy shows online trying to figure out what I am going to write about. The one thing I noticed was that in all the shows that I have watched there has only been one person with a different ethnic background then Caucasian and his name is Cleveland Brown. Cleveland Brown is of African-American decent and he is the only one in the whole town. This show is very weak in diversity. I am sure that pretty much every town in the United States there are more African-American’s in each town. If I was of African-American decent I would wonder why there was only one African-American in the show and it would be very hard to connect to the show.
I’ve always enjoyed this show for its comedy even though there are often jokes that would not be considered politically correct, and could be offensive to people of different ethnicities. I also have never took the time too notice until now that there is only one African-American and that this could be insulting to people of this ethnic background. I also recently noticed after doing this assignment that the father pays much more attention to the son and not as much attention to the daughter, she is somewhat the outcast of the family, even though she is by far the most intelligent and has the most potential for success. When I realize this now I see how there is gender inequality here but at the same time because of the sons stupidity it makes the show more entertaining and humorous, where as if the show was based around the daughters life it would not be as funny and as entertaining to watch.