If he wasn’t, he is now. They made a musical episode about it called “Goodbye Middle Class” where they illustrate this with him.
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blind3rdeye@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Isn’t Homer meant to be an illustration of privilege? Like, he’s pretty useless, but still gets essentially everything he wants.
randomaside@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
psmgx@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Is that the point behind Frank Grimes aka Grimey?
“It doesn’t matter because I’m Homer Simpson”
MalachaiConstant@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Yep, and that’s still true even when he’s made to face the consequences of his actions. We expect so very little of him that we let him get away with pretty much anything as long as he loves his family.
Hot damn if that’s not the picture of straight-white-male-between-18-and-50-years-old privilege.
peyotecosmico@programming.dev 2 months ago
Grimes is that you?
Syd@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Nah, it’s supposed to be funny and relatable. Times changed, not the cartoon.
BeMoreCareful@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I watched an interview and they were talking about some song that gets sang where Bart can be anything he wants to be.
I think the gist was they listed this litany of jobs that he could have when he grew up and twenty years later none of them were really viable anymore, kind of emphasizing how long the show has been on.
Things have changed.