Diversity in The Simpsons

             The Simpsons is a comical cartoon about a perfect family. The "Perfect Family" consisting of a trouble maker Bart, an intelligant person Lisa, a dumb over weitght father Homer, a Housewife Marge and a baby girl Maggie. In this episode Homer meets an interesting salesman at a PawnShop and as the family gets to know him Homer finds out he is gay, bycotts him. As Homer is bycotting Jon, Bart is picking up some of Jons atributes. Homer fears that Jons gay has rubbed off on Bart, and thinks he is gay. So therfor Homer did several techniques to bring him straight.
             This episode of The Simpsons illustrates the theme "diveristy" for it focuses on homosexuals which are divers or different than the average person. Homosexuals would rather be with there same sex, opposed to a heterosexual whcih enjoy the oppisite sex. Plus the typical homophobic who fears homo's, not that homosexualism is contagious and you could get infected if to close but that they are different then they are.
             Stereotypes, without them The Simpsons would be just your average comical cartoon like King of the Hill or Futureroma. The Simpsons strive on stereotypes, it is the comical part, well that and Homer. Homosexuals are more common today then they ever were before, yet they still carry around hundreds of comical sterotypes. The Simpsons used every stereotype about a homo you could think of, especially the speaching inpetiment of the lisp,the waving of the hand, and the "sissie" characterist. With how poorly these sterotypes portray reality, makes The Simpons such a comical show. They even include the untypical ones like drinking diet soda and how far you push out your chest turns you gay. Stereotypes are not all made up, The Simpsons even use some by making all the gay characters nice, excited, caring. Since The Simpsons use stereotypes and inside jokes the intended audience is ranged from 12 and up to get the full understanding of what is rea
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