Mellow Out

In the reading assignment for Monday’s class we were supposed to read an essay about the queer in Seinfeld. Now let me start off by saying that I like watching Seinfeld because it is very funny, well in this essay the author shows how they have a few episodes about queers. These episodes try to show Jerry and George gay, now in the show they do this in a comical way not meant to hurt any body, but some people take it offensive. While reading the essay I began to remember watching these episodes on television and thought nothing wrong of it, I just simply saw it as another episode of Seinfeld. Well other people may have not and were offended by it, well I fell that many times people go looking for ways to say they were offended or discriminated against when they should just mellow out and realize it’s all in good fun. For example in the essay the author talks about when Jerry, George, and Kramer are in the locker room after some sort of activity (sports) and how Jerry saw his baseball idol. Well Jerry approaches his idol and tells him that he is a big fan, well it turns out that his idol is a big fan of Jerry’s comedy, so they hit it off. Later in the show they show Jerry talking to Elaine about how his idol wasn’t returning any of his calls and how men always do that sort of thing, wait a very long time to call you back. Well this scene makes it seem like Jerry and his idol have a relationship, but all they want is to be good friends. I guess what I’m trying to say is that in television nobody is safe and somebody will always be made fun of, so just take it and try not to dig so deep into it to intentionally find something that offends you.