Queer Eye

After watching Queer Eye in class, I decided this would be the perfect show to write about this week. The episode we watched, “Saving Sasquatch” consisted of the Fabulous Five making over Neal who is an app designer. He has not had people to his house in over 10 years. The Fab Five went in and gave him a new wardrobe, hairstyle, and they redid his house. Although this was an amazing show there are places where this show would be a problem.

Since this is a show about LGBT, there are places in the world where this show is not acceptable. There are seventy four countries where being LGBT is illegal. Anywhere it is illegal this should would not be acceptable. Even in the countries where it is illegal, there probably still are people that are accepting of it and would not mind watching a show like this.

On the opposite side of that, even in the countries where it is legal, there still probably are people that are not accepting of that lifestyle. Even though it is legal in the US, there still are people out there that would not watch a show that has one single LGBT character in it, let alone Queer Eye that is based around five of them.

Aside from the big aspect of LGBT, another part of the show that I found to be a little bit offensive was the part when they were in Neal’s closet and they tried on his saris and danced around in them. I did not personally find that offensive, but anywhere they wear saris as a part of their culture they may find it offensive as they were doing it in a playful manner and not in a serious way. Another part of the show that could have been offensive was when Tan and Neal were talking about Indian and Pakistani mothers in a stereotypical way. Any mother (Indian and Pakistani) may find that offensive.



Overall, there are various places that this show may be found offensive. Basically, it is not really a specific area where it would not be acceptable, but it is more about specific people.