What status quo is it challenging? Just the specific Simpsons one where Homer and Marge are married and love each other? I’m not sure that’s a status quo that deserves much challenging.
Is it the status quo where the disabled are treated as less than? Because the talk of punishing Homer for having brain damage and/or a genetic disorder seems to be enforcing that.
It’s not challenging the status quo where women are treated as objects? The supplied quotes talk about “punishing” Homer more than they talk about Marge. When they do talk about Marge it’s as something to be earned and won, not as a person with her own choices. Homer deserves Marge every bit as much as Manjula or the artist or Moe or Disco Stu does: not one bit. She is not “deserved” or “won,” she makes her own choices. She’s not blind to Homer’s faults and, despite what the quote would say, she’s been given plenty of choices over the past thirty years. Smarter people, richer people, people who “challenge the space they exist in,” and I’m not sure but I’d be willing to bet by now women as well. Every time she chooses Homer. Regardless of how it may feel some times, Marge is not trapped in her marriage, she chooses to be in it.
And I know that, being a fictional character, she doesn’t really have choices, but looking at it this way only exacerbates the problem. Through that lens Marge is truly an object, no more able to be “liberated” than a rock. Not able to “come to herself” and definitely not “an incredible human being” whether Homer were in her life or not. Unless we can look at her as if she were a human being capable of making her own choices and deserving respect for the choices she makes there is no “liberation [for] Marjorie Bouvier.”
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Is it the status quo where the disabled are treated as less than? Because the talk of punishing Homer for having brain damage and/or a genetic disorder seems to be enforcing that.
It’s not challenging the status quo where women are treated as objects? The supplied quotes talk about “punishing” Homer more than they talk about Marge. When they do talk about Marge it’s as something to be earned and won, not as a person with her own choices. Homer deserves Marge every bit as much as Manjula or the artist or Moe or Disco Stu does: not one bit. She is not “deserved” or “won,” she makes her own choices. She’s not blind to Homer’s faults and, despite what the quote would say, she’s been given plenty of choices over the past thirty years. Smarter people, richer people, people who “challenge the space they exist in,” and I’m not sure but I’d be willing to bet by now women as well. Every time she chooses Homer. Regardless of how it may feel some times, Marge is not trapped in her marriage, she chooses to be in it.
And I know that, being a fictional character, she doesn’t really have choices, but looking at it this way only exacerbates the problem. Through that lens Marge is truly an object, no more able to be “liberated” than a rock. Not able to “come to herself” and definitely not “an incredible human being” whether Homer were in her life or not. Unless we can look at her as if she were a human being capable of making her own choices and deserving respect for the choices she makes there is no “liberation [for] Marjorie Bouvier.”