Glee contains many stereotypes illustrated throughout the series. Some of these include racial, sexual, gender stereotypes. Glee is notorious for tackling issues about sexuality such as the epsidode “Never been kissed”. Shannon Beiste is a female football coach with short hair, and a husky figure for a woman. This portrays her to look like a man though she is clearly a female. In the series people often made fun of her and assumed her to be lesbian.
I think its important to notice that sexuality is a big topic in the media as well as topics. One imperative part of the issue is whether or not sexuality should be limited by laws, such as not allowing marriage, raising children or teaching young children. I think Glee does a great job portraying Shannon Beiste as a homosexual though in actuality her figure and outlook on sexuality is that of a heterosexual. It is revealed in “never been kissed” that Shannon had never had her first kiss. This fact clearly states that the woman features which appear masculine to some are reason to why she had never developed a true relationship. In fact in other episodes students used her image while making out with one another so they keep their arousals low. Obviously her appearance is used to make sexual situation less intimate demonstrating that her appearance isn’t very appealing to gay men.
In another scene a football player bullies a member of the glee club for being a homosexual. However, in this case the glee member decides to stand up for himself and confronts the bully in the locker room. When you would expect a beating, the bully instead kisses kurt illustrating that he also was gay but was hiding it. Karofsky instead threatens kurt to keep his sexuality a secret because he is ashamed his reputation would be affected. Thus once again we see closeted and open homosexuals casted in stereotypical roles. One is singing and acting member the other a foot ball player but their both still gay. This scene illustrates that you can be a strong football player or a singer but still be gay. Thus its apparent that anyone can be gay but still perform any activity despite how they are stereotyped.
Glee is a good show that demonstrates a lot of stereotypes, in particular sexuality and gender. These social identities are portrayed by both teachers and students illustrating a more realistic view of how people perceive others in this world. Teenagers aren’t the only people who stereotype people based on sexuality and race as we see teachers and faculty do it as well. In fact you can never judge a book by its cover as was seen with Shannon Beiste and foot ball player Karofsky. However, you still see a singer be openly gay as often stereotyped in the media thus this show illustrates good closeted and open examples
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