What was an unexpectedly positive gesture became nothing more than the LGBTQ community being used yet again as a way to garner headlines. The creators made international news by hinting they would stop ridiculing the LGBTQ community for cheap gags - and then they’ve kept doing it regardless.
It feels disappointingly similar to when Disney received backlash after it released the live-action Beauty and the Beast for teasing a gay moment, or Marvel for consistently teasing a similar narrative for their franchises without actually following through. Honestly, at this point it feels as if the LGBTQ community really should be on the books for these corporations. Shane Gillis Jeff Kravitz/FilmMagic for Clusterfest Over the last few years there’s been the rise of an insidious narrative, pushed seemingly by mostly white, male comedians, that comedy has to be offensive if it’s going to get a laugh. In the UK we had Dapper Laughs apologise for joking that a woman in the audience of his show should be raped, only to seemingly backtrack on Twitter recently during a rant about the so-called "overreaction" that cost him his career. SNL hired and then subsequently fired Shane Gillis after racist and homophobic remarks he'd previously made resurfaced.
In response to the backlash, he gave a half-hearted apology about how comedians need to "take risks". The problem we're having is that it’s difficult to know where Family Guy and its creators stand. If their defence is that no one is off limits and that’s why it’s okay, then why are they admitting that times have changed and certain jokes from the show are no longer appropriate? James Woods was quietly dropped from the show back in 2016 following historical abuse allegations.īy having zero qualms about employing Woods, who at the time had made numerous problematic remarks about the LGBTQ community, it gave credence to his views and suggested that Seth McFarlane and co. This reactionary form of activism really doesn’t cut it and reeks of self preservation. The reality is that many of Family Guy's writers, and a substantial portion of the creative team, are white men.
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It’s not hard to understand why a room full of white men congratulating themselves on yet another joke dragging out tired stereotypes about the LGBTQ community could be seen as a red flag. Hate crimes are rising both in the UK and the US, with transgender hate crime up 37 per cent and sexual orientation up 25 per cent in England and Wales between 2018-2019, according to Home Office figures.