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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

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