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The Simpsons Social Issues

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he had the ability to get people talking about the social issues and even brought attention to the social issues that the common man and women didn’t yet know of, which can be just as important as solving questions.
Brook continued his work in television and as a result continued to make character that would revolutionize the way the typical American looks at woman’s role. One of Brooks most long lasting and most popular television shows, “The Simpsons,” is and award winning and depicts an atypical family struggling with a pleather of wacky characters and a slightly dysfunctional family, the Simpsons, that must deal with these conflicts. It has hosted multiple episodes deal with a variety of relevant social issues (The Simpsons). Over the years the Simpsons have tackled issues and deconstructed stereotypes of environmental awareness, family issues, and more recently education of women and women in the industry.
During one episode ten of season twenty-seven of the show, Lisa, the eldest daughter of the Simpson family, is attending her new coding class. The scene starts with the punk and brash teacher, Quinn, walking in and a student stating, “a woman? I thought this was coding, not web design”. The rest of the episode works to deconstruct the stereotype of women in the field of coding and to indirectly comment on the current state of women in education (Algar).
By this point, the conversation of women in the work force has been going on for a while know, but The Simpsons

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