Talking Simpsons - Homer's Phobia With Drew Mackie
Added 2018-10-17 03:28:18 +0000 UTCIt's time to get tragically ludicrous AND ludicrously tragic this week with our special guest, Drew Mackie from the Gayest Episode Ever Podcast! We explore Simpsons' most queer episode ever, we chat about how it influenced us both in our sexuality and tolerance, as well as how much we became obsessed with pop culture camp. Learn all about that and more in this very special episode, so join the party!
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Grammar rodeo? You lost at a grammar rodeo?
Bob Mackey
2018-11-06 04:59:38 +0000 UTCIn grade 8 French class, we were made to participate in the Concours d'art Oratoire, a pan-Canadian French speaking competition where you have to deliver an oral essay about your topic of choice. Mine was about the educational properties of The Simpsons. Part of it was about this episode, and how it teaches people that homosexuality isn't a bad thing. After I gave my speech to the class, some of my friends went, "I can't believe you said that word so many times!" "What?" "You know... 'homosexuelle'!" I wasn't fazed by it at all, but they still considered it a taboo thing to bring up. Growing up, I always found it puzzling how anyone could have a problem with gayness, but maybe it's because the topic never came up at home and therefore I had no preconceived notions of it. (By the way, I was one of three kids the teacher picked to go to the provincial semi-finals for the Concours, which I lost because I had no business placing in any kind of speaking competition. I'm terrible at French, but I was happy to talk about the Simpsons in an academic manner.)
nina matsumoto
2018-11-05 22:56:47 +0000 UTCOof. This episode. From one of the strangest weeks of my life. I was 17. I had just come out to one of my best friends a few days before. I hated being gay but I knew I was. I had just started attending a Project 10 support group. I think my brothers knew I was gay. We all watched The Simpsons together and I was dreading this episode because I knew they were going to freak out about it being PC propaganda. I spent the entire length of the episode barely watching, as they screamed at the TV about being gay propaganda, while I nervously typed to my buddies on the ITC #bearcave channel about how to wanted to die. They hated this episode. They hated anything in support of gay rights. I haven’t seen this episode since. It was one of the most painful experiences in my life. I loved my brothers and this show and it was coming together in a toxic mass. By 2000 I was out and in a relationship and my brothers were totally cool with things. People do change. But boy this was a bad time. Also my parents won the lottery that week which was pretty insane.
Beefington von Barnstorm
2018-10-28 19:39:27 +0000 UTC
