Was Family Guy's Trans Episode Horrifically Offensive?
http://www.queerty.com/was-family-guys-trans-episode-horrifically-offensive-20100510/Family Guy, the enormously successful equal opportunity offender, on Mother's Day aired the episode "Quagmire's Dad," about Quagmire's father who was supposed to be a panty ->-bleeped-<-, but turns to be a big homo — or rather, a transgender MTF. Lots of gay and trans jokes have the queers upset!
Enjoying a cosmo and owning the entire Sex and the City DVD collection are among the indicators that Quagmire's dad is a poof. And the writers came up with lots of (reused and recycled) ways to talk about "stroking privates" and "taking loads." But when confronted, pops says he is not, in fact, a homosexual. He just wants a sex change operation.
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Is "Family Guy"'s Seth MacFarlane a Complete Idiot?
by Brent Hartinger
May 10, 2010
http://www.afterelton.com/TV/2010/5/seth-macfarlane-complete-idiotIt takes a lot to shock me these days, but I confess, I was shocked by the insensitivity of "Quagmire's Dad," last night's episode of Family Guy.
In the episode, Quagmire's friends think his dad is gay. Cue Family Guy's regular flood of penis and anal sex jokes whenever anything "gay" is mentioned.
It turns out that Quagmire's dad isn't gay; he's a transgender woman. To the episode's credit, it does point out that "gay" is different than "transgender." And Ida, the transgender woman, does talk about her choice to get gender-reassignment surgery, saying, "Do I want to be happy the rest of my life, or do I want to be miserable?"
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Why I Am Not In An Uproar Over Family Guy's Transphobic Episode
05/10/10-by Bridgette P. LaVictoire
http://lezgetreal.com/?p=33258I am going to say something absolutely shocking that those people with weak hearts may want to leave the room. I am reading Gyn/Ecology by Mary Daly. Shocking, right? I am a transsexual and I am reading a work by a person who was quite often described as being transphobic. I am not writing about my responses to Mary Daly because, well, I have not worked out all of my responses to her and I am working on that for my degree. The reason why I am mentioning this is because of a recent uproar over an episode of Family Guy revolving around the character of Glen Quagmire's father becoming a woman. According to everyone out there, the episode is transphobic, homophobic, and all kinds of vile.
I have not seen it. For those who are now going to pillory me for not having seen it, but commenting upon it, I would like to point out that, by same measure of outrage, Blazing Saddles should be seen as racist, antisemitic and homophobic. Somewhere along the way, we have become so use to the idea of being outraged about something that we have forgotten that satire and humor are suppose to make us uncomfortable and outraged. We are suppose to feel uncomfortable because, well, satire and humor are used to expose just how horrific our prejudices are or to belittle and destroy the power of our enemies.
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'Family Guy': Funny or just plain offensive?
May 10th, 2010
http://www.dallasvoice.com/instant-tea/2010/05/10/family-guy-funny-or-just-plain-offensive/You wanna see the trans community really pissed off, you can forget about Israel Luna's transploitation film — look no further than last night's "Family Guy."
The animated series, which is historically very gay-friendly while also being patently offensive to gay people (for instance: Baby Stewie is clearly gay, while they have songs that mock AIDS) went all-out hateful against the trans community in last night's episode, "Quagmire's Dad."
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History Repeating: Family Guy goes transphobic
Filed by: Bil Browning
May 10, 2010 2:00 PM
http://www.bilerico.com/2010/05/history_repeating_family_guy_goes_transphobic.phpAfter watching last night's extremely transphobic Family Guy episode, I'm reminded of the Propellerheads song that features Shirley Bassey.
Once again, Seth McFarlane has resorted to transphobic "humor" in what seems to be an increasingly desperate grasp for ratings. After the Cleveland Show episode that mocked transwomen and featured a character puking for what seemed like an eternity after finding out he had sex with a deceitful trans woman, Family Guy got original. They showed a character puking after finding out he had sex with a deceitful trans woman.
Updated at the end of the post. McFarlane thinks "It's probably the most sympathetic portrayal of a transexual character that has ever been on television."
