television

The Huffington Post has a piece up today called "TV University: Meet The Faculty". It's a clever idea–a faculty roster for a university comprised entirely of television (and some film) characters teaching courses that play to their fictional strengths. So Dr. Who is the Dean of the Science Department, Stringer Bell teaches Transitional Business Management, and so on. The only problem? Out of 96 faculty members, only four are women–they even have a dude teaching Women's Studies. Come on folks, we can do better! (And I mean this literally.) Which female television characters would you like as your TV University professors?

Ugh. Family Guy. It’s a terrible, terrible show in my opinion. I still watch it regularly, out of long-held habit. But it’s just. It’s lazy, it’s aesthetically not pleasing. It’s not very funny. And it’s offensive on an consistent, regular basis.

But for some reason, folks really like it, and Seth MacFarlane, its creator, seems particularly proud of it. It’s currently in the midst of an Emmy campaign, and it is promoting itself by mocking Precious:



This is racist on more than one axis.