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Is FAMILY GUY misogynistic?
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Yes.
Next question?
Next question?
That was going to be my exact reply.
As an 'aging hetero' you didn't notice this for the past 20 years?
Yes but not in a harmful way.
One of the healthy outlets for machismo I referenced in the other thread.
Though I think the show has been terrible since it was in cancelled. It’s more like it’s portraying a misogynistic reality than it’s supporting misogyny.
One of the healthy outlets for machismo I referenced in the other thread.
Though I think the show has been terrible since it was in cancelled. It’s more like it’s portraying a misogynistic reality than it’s supporting misogyny.
So.......it's only displaying hatred towards women as a form of entertainment, and constantly showing hatred towards women is OK with you, as long as they don't literally utter the words "I hate women."
Got it.
Got it.
When awful people say awful things, you know that the opposite is virtuous, which is the All in the Family model.
It's the homophobia in the older episodes that makes me cringe.
This show used to be on at 6 pm on weeknights, for families while they ate dinner,and still might be. (I gave up on terrestrial TV in 2009.)
It's the homophobia in the older episodes that makes me cringe.
This show used to be on at 6 pm on weeknights, for families while they ate dinner,and still might be. (I gave up on terrestrial TV in 2009.)
I stopped watching Family Guy a season or two after it came back. MacFarlane and the writing staff seemed to feel they had carte blanche to do whatever they wanted. Every other joke was political and Peter basically became Homer Simpson in the way that he went from a lower-IQ father trying to do his best for his family to a straight out moron.
That’s not what I said. It’s a deliberately hostile reduction of what I said so you can paint the picture you like.
Our modern culture has a way of drawing a circle around approved manners of thinking and talking and calling anything outside that circle as racist, misogynistic, homophobic, etc. To the point that it doesn’t make a distinction between different points of view on gender issues and repressive misogyny.
Family Guy satirizes that circle, and makes crass jokes on the outside of it. It does not encourage female repression or demand female subservience.
Our current PC culture has forgotten that part of living in a pluralistic culture where you aren’t expected to conform to anyone else is you can’t also demand people on the other side conform to you. Tolerance is a two way street.
No. It's the same as any other sitcom where the hot wife has to be a mother to her idiot husband. Same thing for The Cleveland Show.
No. It's just a edgy comedy that makes fun of everyone. It's like asking if they hate white people because of how they write Peter. Hell McFarlande is a pretty lefty guy and sort of see's Brian as the closest version of himself yet constantly makes fun of him for being a smug liberal know it all who doesn't know much of anything. They even make fun of the fact that many of the writers are white guys. One joke was this one about a women get all irrational and the guy being all confused because I guess women are just crazy sometimes. Then the punchline has them list all the male writers on the show with only two women listed.
Jason
Jason
Stinging but admittedly giggles-inducing. Those were before the post-cancellation season 3 revival as the show seemed funnier back then (for me anyway, YMMV).
Drags out, uses ST III transporter sound and not TNG's. /pedantry
Total snooze.
But comedy is subjective; some will find all three funny or just the latter two or none or any other combination. And it's sold as a comedy outright. And it does go after everyone. And everyone knows it's a comedy. Like "Blazing Saddles", there were actors that said they did it because they knew it was a comedy and not to be taken seriously. Nobody needs to agree with them but it happens to everyone. Look at "The Big Bang Theory".
^^this.
Okay, "Family Guy" isn't as consistently funny as "In Living Color" was but, again, humor is inevitably subjective.
I never really watched it but there was an hour of Family Guy, Simpsons and Modern Family from 5-8pm last year. Now it's two hours of Simpsons.
Herbert the Pervert is one of their most funniest characters. It's not like they ever show him actually doing anything which is kind of the line I have found usually exists with those type of jokes. You can talk about it but never show it. At least that is my personal line.
Jason
Jason
No, of course not. It’s an equal opportunity comedy meaning every cultural aspect is lampooned. Misandry is much more common than misogyny but feminists see a monster behind every lamp post.
Have a laugh and forget social justice dissection of every joke you come across.
Have a laugh and forget social justice dissection of every joke you come across.
