I think that this season of South Park has been the best yet; they have taken on a lot of really important political issues and made it hilarious and entertaining.
This episode, from two weeks ago, was really great.
Excellent and spot-on commentary about our cultural discomfort with women's body parts, functions, telling jokes, and especially telling jokes about body functions.
An excellent scene includes the mother telling them a joke about a baby boy farting in his mother's belly--they laugh until she adds the part about the fart coming out of her vagina.
South Park can be very crude and immature, but also very intelligent.
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I have a problem with cartoons and shows that are ONLY from men's perspectives and in which women and girls are either antagonists or weird creatures that can't be understood.
South park falls in that category for me.... and I've stopped watching.
I like Reno911, Futurama, Spongebob, It's always sunny in philadelphia, arrested development, and recently, park and recreation!
Why do you differentiate between women and girls yet claim that south park is from the men's perspective?
I'm not sure if I understand your question. Are you asking why I said men, rather than "men and boys"? In that case I actually did mean "men and boys" and not just men.
that's how I feel about south park. It's about 4 boys (who actually don't really act like children, so maybe 4 men is also appropriate) and in which girls are outsiders. Maybe it has changed recently, but I used to watch it a lot and that's how it seemed to me then.
I just found it odd that you would differentiate between women and girls but not men and boys, when the show is in fact from the point of view of boys... Very rarely is the show shown through the perspective of men, and they are often "othered" in the same manner as women/girls.
I thought it was wonderful, too. South Park is always spot-on for me, and the female characters are always portrayed as very common-sense and smart, except when they're supposed to be representative of the "stupid parent/adult" motif and are on par with the men.
It's like the episode where Wendy confronted Cartman for mocking breast cancer- not a great message about violence, of course, but it still f*cking ROCKED.
i almost peed myself when i watched this episode. out of joy, of course. its my new favorite. :-)