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Queer Analysis and My New Home Sweet Home

Choosing Glee made sense for option number three, Queer Analysis. Season Six-episode three takes place in the year 2015. Initially, the humor when the Warbler Council meets [3:55] was lost on me until the end of the show; hence, when I saw 2015 at the end of the credits, I immediately recalled the scene just prior. The conversation at the dinner table when the people argue over a “girl” wanting to join the Warblers and the talk of “You cannot be on the wrong side of history, here” is met with the reply, “I know, I just think that tradition is important too.” It is the year of Obergefell v. Hodges (2015) the decision written by Sacramento’s Justice Kennedy and was the final say in a string of decisions, changing jurisprudence—supposedly in the case of Chief Justice Roberts-- and the steady march of shifting precedence that finally led to legalization of gay marriage; subsequently, the parallels to the public debate that year are everywhere [5:18] in arguments such as “…what is next
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Blog Post 7 Re-Do

I have chosen a perfect Seinfeld: Season Six Episode twenty-two. As the fun gets started, George tells a black acquaintance, “Hey you know what? You look like Sugar Ray Leonard.” The gentleman says that he doesn’t and makes a crack about thinking that George must think all blacks look alike. At this point, one of the subplots is underway as George goes on to seek out old black friends or find new ones after Seinfeld remarks that George really doesn’t have any black friends. Other than a couple of quick couple of rejections, the show moves on with other characters. Clearly the show from as recently as the nineteen-nineties is guilty of Exclusion. Despite being on airplane flights, and scenes with Krammer at the Airport it is clear that except for the scenes with George, are underrepresented. Exclusion is exemplified by racial minorities not “existing.” George invites an exterminator that once worked at Jerry’s place to exterminate fleas. In the episode, George will
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Troupe Lists Run Deep and Varied

Many use tropes as a way to develop a premise for shows or episode ideas. Generally, these involve commonalities within our culture--some at first could look like stereotypes to the non-media scholar. However, there are a plethora of choices, combinations, and variations from the diverse number of troupes to draw upon. According to Ott and Mack, Cultural studies scholars address the shortcomings of accurate depictions portrayed in media that  "...represent a skewed or partial vision of society in relation to class gender, sexuality, age, disability, and a host of other social constructs." It could be said that troupes are a vehicle used by Creatives to bring together entertaining or thought provoking productions or shows that are relatable or believable premises for entertainment delivered by the means of varying media platforms or mediums. Earlier in the year, I brought-up what I have parroted by many pundits and others as the attack on the patriarchal family structure o
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In Living Color: Season 04 Episode 19 & 20

The shows opener is with an effeminate captain of a US navy submarine who is dropping all kinds of innuendo. First, a sailor returns from the boiler room shirtless, and the captain denies the sailor asking, “permission to put on my shirt, sir” Following this, he is “Going down the hull” when he learns the torpedoes wont load” The skit ends with the captain riding a torpedo yelling, “ Here I come you Nazi bastards” The skit is largely stereotypical: Gay Men are effeminate is an example of this and the hegemonic norm of him going down “to the hull (pronounced ‘hole’) presents a kind of [reverse?] hegemonic norm that all gay men are interested in back door types of sex. My own research has found that this is not the case; there are as many ways that LBGT men relate intimately as there are ways in heterosexual interactions.    Let us move on… Please, Drake! Although the next skit can be said to foster racial stereotypes as well implement the process of assimilation. Men on Fi
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