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So I don't like to admit it, but I watched Glee.... however, I was slightly offended by the stab the season premier made at male nurses... and I quote "female football coach, like male nurses, are a sin against nature." It's also not cool that females coaching football is a sin according to the writers of Glee. I am officially irritated for the day and I could not bring myself to watch the rest of the episode... and probably the rest of the season as well.
I caught it. Along with her knowingly having a teenage student purposefully make a false accusation against a female coach that she had touched the student's breasts.
That's the thing about the Sue Sylvester character and the rest of the show...as others have already pointed out...if these were lighthearted attempts at humor...they would not be funny at all. But because they are SO SO outrageously over the top...the humor is NOT in the jokes they're making but the parodies of the characters they're portraying.
Good catch!! What you should do is write to the tv network, the producers AND most importantly the sponsors and let them know how offensive this is and that you 've posted this on this nursing site.
O for goodness sake! Being "PC" has gotten WAY out of hand. At any given moment there was something to offend everyone in the episode. There are no accidental exposures to TV-don't watch it if you don't like it. Censorship will cripple creativity in this country. I want the right to watch whatever I want to watch.
I'm going to show my age for a moment - this flap rather makes me think of some of the fuss over the show "Soap" back in the day, because many of the portrayals of characters and issues were quite over the top (enough so that they were meant to make you think after you laughed).
Can't say I've seen "Glee" (I'm usually studying at night and I'm not a big network TV fan anymore), but from the descriptions of those who've seen it, the scene the OP described sounds as though it was meant to be taken with about half a shaker of salt. Hmmm, maybe I'll have to give the show a look sometime.
MrsEd
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I think you have to take it in context - anything out of the mouth of Sue Sylvester is going to be offensive - she does not discriminate - EVERYONE is fair game. I'm a total GLEEK!!