South Park Extra credit.

The gay episode of South park was Ridiculous. Wait which episode was the gay one...... There was like 10 of them. Ill write about the queer eye one where all the males start embodying the gay stereotypes and Kyle is left all by himself to play football. The women begin too like the men as metrosexuals but get angry after a while when all the men just focus on themselves. We later find out that the Queer eye crew is a bunch of crab people bent on taking over the world (how they plan on doing this I dont know). The women kill the crab people and the producer, devastated over the loss of his stars, changes they show to Latino fashions..... and then everyone stats acting latino (sitting on the front porch in saggy jeans and an only top buttoned plaid shirt with a white T under, "want a cervaza")

This makes a good point as the queer eye guys arent really helping anyone. They just turned their individuality into a novelity much like De La Croix did in BAMBOOZLED. How is taking a men and turning them metro helpful for anyone. It only leads to identity crisis and divorce. The queer eyers (?) sold out as they turned Gay into a prodcut for the american market. In contrast with the gay Simpsons episode, while homer tries to "straighten Bart out", the men of South Park embrace the Metro style themselves. Why do people have to sell out in order to help inform the world of their culture. The whole idea of pride is to be happy with yourself, not to be happy you turned however many bored housewives husbands into fake copies. I like how they all became Latino at the end of the episode as it shows how we constantly take the minorites of the U.S. and market them through clothing and furniture in order to make people delude themselves that we accept them. "i love the latin community, my maid Rosalia is one of my closest colleagues." The episode where Mr Garrison tries to get fired for being Gay was interesting as well. The kids had to attend a "Tollerence" concentration camp where they lived much like aushiwitz and made macaroni art work. Like most South park episodes, it ends with an important speech from someone, in this case Mr. Garrison.


Mr. Garrison: Tolerant, but not stupid! Look, just because you have to tolerate something doesn't mean you have to approve of it! If you had to like it, it'd be called the Museum of Acceptance! [the audience looks on] "Tolerate" means you're just putting up with it! You tolerate a crying child sitting next to you on the airplane or, or you tolerate a bad cold. It can still piss you off! Jesus Tapdancing Christ!
Randy: He's right. Our boys didn't hate homosexuals, they just hated the way this asshole was acting.
Gerald: We'ge gotta get our boys back! [gets up and rushes out]
Mr. Garrison: [relieved] Ogh! Okay, so now can I PLEASE get fired and get my 25 million dollars?!

It seems that we are learning through shows like queer eye, to tolerate these people because "they are so courageous" but it loses all meaning of their individuality by them selling out. Very complicated.