The differences of gender roles have been a controversial topic in which it has been changing during the time. TV shows are a great example of how these differences are a big impact in our society. Women and men have always been described in society in a different aspect. Typically, men are considered to be better than women in most cases. According to society, women are expected to be at home doing the chores and taking care of their family. The Simpsons deals with these differences of gender roles and represents the nuclear family that society have been created in American culture. This show expresses and challenges the ideologies of the women 's roles in society because it represents a typical housewife. On the other …show more content…
This quote means that in order for a child to be stable both parents have to be with him/her. Peoples ideology is that a family comes first than anything else. The Simpsons family describes a nuclear family, but it does not mean that the family is perfect. Every character has its own ideas and different ways of thinking. For example, Homer is not an ideal husband since he does not care about his family and he only cares about beers and donuts. Marge is an ideal mother that does the chores of the house and takes care of her family. Bart does not care about school and it is mean with both of his sisters. Lisa is a very smart girl and she cares about school. Maggie the baby is a happy infant that is always in a good mood. Even though they have different thoughts and attitudes they always overcome their problems as a family. At the end, they stay together and ready to overcome another problem. In the article, “The Simpsons: Atomistic Politics and the Nuclear Family” by Paul A. Cantor describes that “What makes The Simpsons so …show more content…
WORKS CITED Cantor, Paul A. “The Simpsons: Atomistic Politics and the Nuclear Family”. Political Theory, Vol. 27, No. 6 (Dec., 1999), pp. 734-749. Published by: Sage Publications, Inc. Article Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/192244. Web. November 10, 2014 Gennetian, Lisa A . “One or Two Parents? Half or Step Siblings? The Effect of Family Structure on Young Children 's Achievement”. Journal of Population Economics , Vol. 18, No. 3 (Sep., 2005), pp. 415-436. Published by: Springer . Article Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/20007969. Web. November 10, 2014 Henry, Matthew. ""Don 't Ask Me, I 'm Just A Girl”: Feminism, Female Identity, And The Simpsons." Journal Of Popular Culture 40.2 (2007): 272-303. Academic Search Premier. Web. November 10, 2014 The Simpsons. Fox Official Site. http://www.thesimpsons.com/#/about. Web. November 23, 2014. The Simpsons. Fox Official Site. http://www.thesimpsons.com/#/recaps. Web. November 23, 2014. Williams, Raymond. “Culture is Ordinary. t /” http://artsites.ucsc.edu/faculty/Gustafson/FILM%20162.W10/readings/Williams.Ordinary.pdf Pg 96. Web. November 23,
The show of The Simpsons first aired in the 1980s. From that time and now we have moved away from the stereotypical expectation of women only serving for the purpose of being housewives and stay home moms. This episode shows how Marge overturned the gender role expectation while it depicts her husband as a fool. In the show, Marge is the housewife who stays home takes care of the children and cooks. Homer chose to vote for Mr. Burns who is a corrupt candidate. However, despite Homer insisting Marge to vote for Mr. Burns, Marge decides to vote for someone else. The fact that her husband does not influence her decision already shows her as a woman who is not easily affected or manipulated by her husband. On the contrary, Homer is the one being manipulated by Mr. Burns. Marge tells Homer that she does not believe that Mr. Burns is that the best candidate and that he is treating him like a guinea pig, but Homer does not listen. This does not only show his nescience but it also proves wrong the stereotypical expectation of a woman who does what her husband tells her to. Also, Marge is presented as being more intelligent than her husband. Marge does not allow herself to be fooled like her husband, and instead, she uses her intelligence to uncover the corrupt candidate Mr. Burns. Marge serves Mr. Burns his own lie when she serves him his fish for the second course of
People have been aware of creating their identities for a few decades. However, it is easy to create an identity. What is hard is creating that identity as independent from society and discovering your own identity. Society has been such an enormous impact on people’s lives. Everyone became identical to each other by copying attitudues from their surrondings. These attitudues have been shaped by mostly discourses. Discourses are actually stereotypes based on morality and religion. Everyone is aware of these discourses because of society and mass media. Obviously, society is the one who created all these discourses and it continues spreading them but mass media has been a crucial transmitter these discourses to audiences. According to Foucault,
First of all, in The Simpsons, the scene where we get into the actual plot of the story opens with Marge and Lisa walking into a department store that sells dolls. The gender stereotype that girls are only interested in playing with dolls is reinforced here as a huge selection of Malibu Stacy dolls is on display with a throng of screeching, bloodthirsty girls tearing the store apart. Lisa says, “I’m warning you mom, I might get a little crazy.” and immediately knocks down a girl and snatches another in a choke-hold to be the first in line for the new Malibu Stacy doll. In the very next scene we have the whole family in the car with Homer driving. He is baking a cupcake with an easy-bake-oven that he bought from the mall. Marge advises him that he should not be doing that. The stereotype here is that men are more impulsive as demonstrated by Homer and his baking while driving without any concern of his or his family’s safety; and that women like to play it safe and think before acting as demonstrated by Marge. Another noteworthy observation is the fact that Homer completes his gender stereotype as the bread-winner of the family. He works at the Nuclear power plant while Marge plays the role of the proud homemaker who is rarely seen outside the home and who has little friends. Homer on the other hand, is not confined to his domestic role and his frequently shown at Moe’s Tavern with his friends, at work, or doing something that is stupid and dangerous. This enforces the stereotype that women have few friends and stay close to domestic life whereas men have lots of friends, are more independent, and bring home the bacon. Moreover, Bart and Lisa are in accordance with their gender stereotypes as well. For instance, in the backseat, Ba...
Women who only served as housewives during the 18th centuries have been able to create a place for them in the society in the 21st century. In the past, women did not have as much influence as men in the society. Now, women are encouraged and they have been able to improve their social and economic status and express their opinions properly. Women have played a vital role in the improvement of society over the last few decades till
Homers actions before the war were very childish and immature because he didn't need to think about anything bad happening to him , all the other people in the group knew Homer was silly and never took anythings serious so they never asked him to do anything because he would do it wrong or make a joke about it , his actions also caused him to get in trouble because he didn't think before he acts. Homer seemed to the one in the
One of the character traits that Mother Maria and Homer have is that they are both open
Though most women in the 21st century obtain degrees and indulge in the workforce as opposed to being the stereotypical housewife, gender roles among men and women have not changed in the minds of the majority. It is still believed that there is more of an advantage to being a man than a woman. From physical to intellectual dominance, many men and women themselves buy into this facade that being a man is significantly more desirable. Not that women desire to be men, though that sometimes is the case, but women want the same perks and respect that you get being a man. Women do in fact have more power in the workforce, and more men can be found running their homes, yet there are still social expectations that guide the idea of what it means to be male or female.
An example of Family from the movie “Crash” is every characters home and people that live with him. The hispanic Locksmith has his family with his daughter and i’d assume wife and you see how their relationship is so emotionally attached because they are a family.
family was thought to be, or shown to the general public to be, the “perfect family”.
The nuclear family is a married man and women who are raising their biological children. It is better known as the common view of a household. In the 1960’s this family, and religious, view was followed by the majority of the people in the United States that if one had to guess they type of family one live with there would be an eighty percent chance that they live in a nuclear family (Luscombe). This image of a family has been engraved into our brains that anything else is unacceptable. However, over the years that view has been altered by single divorce, single parenting, cohabitation, children born out of wedlock, and gay parenting. In fact, the U.S. has seen drastic rise different types of families over the last fifty years (Castelloe).
The Simpsons satirizes the idealized image of the nuclear family, as depicted and popularized in the sitcoms of the 1950’s and 1960’s. The Simpsons are presented as a “typical” working class American family, they eat the food you do, watch TV, and often struggle with money. Homer is the blue-collar father, who at first glance seems lazy beyond his work, but clumsily loves his family. Marge is the hard working and optimistic housewife, constantly struggling with the feeling that she has wasted her potential starting a family, and loves her children and husband. Most discussed is their ten year old son Bart, is m...
Homer Jay Simpson, the patriarch of the Simpson household on the Fox series “The Simpsons” is a childish, lazy man, whose hobbies include eating donuts, drinking Duff Beer, watching television, and sleeping. A victim of the “Simpsons gene” which allows for only Simpson women to possess the trait of intelligence, Homer is unfortunately as “dumb as a chimp” according to his father, Abe Simpson. However, it is mainly through the analysis of his simplistic thoughts and nature, that one can gain a real perspective on Homer’s complex personality.
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Gender is an important aspect of our social life; it comprises of power relations, the division of labour, symbolic forms and emotional relations (Connel, 2000).