Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Changed line(s) 41 (click to see context) from:
* The episode "There's Something About Marrying" from Season 16, Marge's sister Patty comes out as a lesbian and introduces the family to her fiancee Veronica. The ending reveals Veronica is a man named Leslie who dressed up as a woman to be allowed to play women's professional golf. When Leslie asks Patty to marry him anyway, Patty refuses, reaffirming her interest in women. While the episode was praised at the time, even getting a nod of approval from GLAAD, the plot of a man pretending to be a woman in order to be able to get into a relationship with a gay woman is seen as unintentionally promoting negative stereotypes about lesbians transwomen.
to:
* The episode "There's Something About Marrying" from Season 16, Marge's sister Patty comes out as a lesbian and introduces the family to her fiancee Veronica. The ending reveals Veronica is a man named Leslie who dressed up as a woman to be allowed to play women's professional golf. When Leslie asks Patty to marry him anyway, Patty refuses, reaffirming her interest in women. While the episode was praised at the time, even getting a nod of approval from GLAAD, the plot of a man pretending to be a woman in order to be able to get into a relationship with a gay woman is seen as unintentionally promoting negative stereotypes about lesbians transwomen.and trans women.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Changed line(s) 43 (click to see context) from:
* Audiences in TheNewTens and TheNewTwenties watching season 8's "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS8E23HomersEnemy Homer's Enemy]]" from 1997 are less likely to agree with Frank Grimes's TheReasonYouSuckSpeech about what a LazyBum Homer is, as it's become apparent that American workers are actually among the world's most ''overworked'' people, lacking basic benefits that exist in other prosperous nations, like paid time off.
to:
* Audiences in TheNewTens and TheNewTwenties watching season Season 8's "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS8E23HomersEnemy Homer's Enemy]]" (1997): Audiences watching from 1997 are TheNewTens on have become less likely to agree with Frank Grimes's TheReasonYouSuckSpeech about what a LazyBum Homer is, in particular the line "If you lived in any other country in the world, you'd have starved to death long ago", as it's become apparent that American workers are actually among the world's most ''overworked'' people, lacking basic benefits that exist in other prosperous nations, like paid time off.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Changed line(s) 41 (click to see context) from:
* The episode "There's Something About Marrying" from Season 16, Marge's sister Patty comes out as a lesbian and introduces the family to her fiancee Veronica. The ending reveals Veronica is a man named Leslie who dressed up as a woman to be allowed to play women's professional golf. When Leslie asks Patty to marry him anyway, Patty refuses, reaffirming her interest in women. While the episode was praised at the time, even getting a nod of approval from GLAAD, the plot of a man pretending to be a woman in order to be able to get into a relationship with a gay woman is seen as unintentionally promoting negative stereotypes.
to:
* The episode "There's Something About Marrying" from Season 16, Marge's sister Patty comes out as a lesbian and introduces the family to her fiancee Veronica. The ending reveals Veronica is a man named Leslie who dressed up as a woman to be allowed to play women's professional golf. When Leslie asks Patty to marry him anyway, Patty refuses, reaffirming her interest in women. While the episode was praised at the time, even getting a nod of approval from GLAAD, the plot of a man pretending to be a woman in order to be able to get into a relationship with a gay woman is seen as unintentionally promoting negative stereotypes.stereotypes about lesbians transwomen.
Changed line(s) 48 (click to see context) from:
* The season 9 "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS9E17LisaTheSimpson Lisa The Simpson]]" (1998) would have a harder time being made today since trans people entered the public consciousness since the episode aired. It would be harder selling the idea of Simpsons men being doomed to their gene due to their y chromosome as by that logic trans women are doomed too whilst trans men are safe due to their x. Such a more convoluted but updated ending is at least partially the reason why [[Recap/TheSimpsonsS12E9HOMR the explanation of Homer being dumb due to a crayon in his brain]] is amusingly the more accepted answer these days.
to:
* The season 9 "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS9E17LisaTheSimpson Lisa The Simpson]]" (1998) would have a harder time being made today since trans people entered the public consciousness since the episode aired. It would be harder selling the idea of Simpsons men being doomed to their gene due to their y chromosome as by that logic logic, trans women are doomed too whilst trans men are safe due to their x. Such a more convoluted but updated ending is at least partially the reason why [[Recap/TheSimpsonsS12E9HOMR the explanation of Homer being dumb due to a crayon in his brain]] is amusingly the more accepted answer these days.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Changed line(s) 49 (click to see context) from:
to:
* Back in the 1990s, a character being hinted to be gay [[QueerPeopleAreFunny was enough to constitute a joke]], hence why so many jokes about Smithers consisted of him daydreaming about, flirting with, or otherwise indicating that he's in love with Mr. Burns. Now that gay people are a lot more normalized in today's society, some younger viewers interpret these scenes as genuine ShipTease, rather than simple jokes, and see them as heartwarming or sexy instead of funny. This dissonance may have played a part in Burns/Smithers becoming the ''Simpsons'' fanbase's biggest FanPreferredCouple during TheNewTens.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Changed line(s) 42 (click to see context) from:
* The season 10 episode "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS10E21MontyCantBuyMeLove Monty Can't Buy Me Love]]" from 1999, the people of Springfield are enamored by [[UnclePennybads billionaire Arthur Fortune]] (a parody of Virgin Group founder and CEO Richard Branson), [[SomebodyDoesntLoveRaymond which frustrates Mr. Burns, who sets out to win Springfielders' hearts himself]]. By TheNewTens and TheNewTwenties, wealth inequality has grown so disproportionate that people are more likely to look at billionaires like Arthur Fortune with as much scorn as Mr. Burns, to the point where many wonder whether society should even allow people to become billionaires at all.
to:
* The season 10 episode "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS10E21MontyCantBuyMeLove Monty Can't Buy Me Love]]" from 1999, the people of Springfield are enamored by [[UnclePennybads [[UnclePennybags billionaire Arthur Fortune]] (a parody of Virgin Group founder and CEO Richard Branson), [[SomebodyDoesntLoveRaymond which frustrates Mr. Burns, who sets out to win Springfielders' hearts himself]]. By TheNewTens and TheNewTwenties, wealth inequality has grown so disproportionate that people are more likely to look at billionaires like Arthur Fortune with as much scorn as Mr. Burns, to the point where many wonder whether society should even allow people to become billionaires at all.
