GWSS 3306: Popular Culture Women

There was one point that we touched on but never actually went into detail in our group presentation that I thought is interesting. We talked about Lisa being so young and yet with so many ideas and concerns about the world around her, what 8-year-old thinks like this? The idea is that Lisa Simpson is the personification of the feminist movement. The feminist movement itself is pretty recent and all things considered, it is not very old itself, yet this does not make it any less significant or valid. I also thought that if she were symbolic of the movement than what does this mean of the people they surrounded her with? Her father, Homer would be the stereotypical dominant male chauvinist, while her mother, Marge is symbolic of the housewife from 40s – mid 70s set on doing nothing more than pleasing her family and running the house. Bart, her older brother, would then symbolize the immature “boys rule� attack on the feminist movement. Her younger sister, Maggie, always has a pacifier in her mouth so she never speaks. Maggie symbolizes the up coming generation of young girls who don’t have a voice yet. So the Simpson family is made up of characters in our society (I say characters because they are generalized or stereotyped). Let me know what you would have thought had we talked about this?