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this post was submitted on 26 Mar 2024
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Isn't Homer meant to be an illustration of privilege? Like, he's pretty useless, but still gets essentially everything he wants.
Nah, it's supposed to be funny and relatable. Times changed, not the cartoon.
I watched an interview and they were talking about some song that gets sang where Bart can be anything he wants to be.
I think the gist was they listed this litany of jobs that he could have when he grew up and twenty years later none of them were really viable anymore, kind of emphasizing how long the show has been on.
Things have changed.
If he wasn't, he is now. They made a musical episode about it called "Goodbye Middle Class" where they illustrate this with him.
Is that the point behind Frank Grimes aka Grimey?
"It doesn't matter because I'm Homer Simpson"
Grimes is that you?
Yep, and that's still true even when he's made to face the consequences of his actions. We expect so very little of him that we let him get away with pretty much anything as long as he loves his family.
Hot damn if that's not the picture of straight-white-male-between-18-and-50-years-old privilege.