Sunday, 29 April 2012

Teen dreams of Lisa the Lizard queen.


Lisa Simpson, Dream Grrrl. 
As if a cooler, more inspiring and smarter young female cartoon character has ever existed. At just 8 years old, Lisa is a feminist, environmentalist, vegetarian and supporter of gay rights (I mean she even enters a movie to Sundance). There seems to be a common theme in cartoons (think 'family guy') of caring and often smart women marrying and spending their lives around males who are misogynists, extremely unintelligent and rather selfish. Like one particular episode of Family Guy where viewers are meant to find Quagmire's "rape machine" funny and  not offensive. While The Simpsons isn't as guilty of the pro-male/anti-female vibes, it's still apparent. Lisa's character is an obvious break free of this typical portrayal of female and male roles.

" I love Lisa" and "She of Little Faith" are some of my favourite Lisa oriented episodes. Check them out.

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