Spots of the Powerplant
...ildren, including Homer Simpson, the husband father and money maker, ready for the day ahead of them, keep the house spotless, and have dinner ready every night. Marge Simpson does not have an outside job, but her full time job is to be a wife and mother. She often goes unheard. Marge wakes up one morning and decides she doesn’t want to be the typical housewife any longer, and attempts to break the stereotypes. She tells her husband, Homer, that she has decided to go and get an outside job, which happens to be his workplace, the cities power plant. Homer then replies with a dominating attitude. He tells her the power plant isn’t a good place for her to work, that she doesn’t need to work, and that he generates enough money to cover the family’s expenses. The power plant would be considered a patriarchal “society.” Every corner one turns there is a man present. There is rarely a woman seen. The environment at the power plant is male-dominated. If there is a woman spotted, she is most likely a secretary, or the wife of a male employee of the power plant. She almost never holds a physically “straining” job. The men doing the hiring of the positions, views, the women subordinate and weak. Marilyn Frye provided an example of how women are seen subordinate and the weaker sex. She stated, “The door-opening and similar services provided are services which really are needed by people who are for one reason or another incapacitated —unwell, burdened with parcel, etc. So the message is that women are incapable.” I believe that relates to this situation on the television show, “The Simpsons.” The employer,...