Today, I learned that Seth MacFarlane hosted the Oscars last night. I try to avoid this type of crap at all costs but its impossible to miss considering my Twitter feed is full of hatred for MacFarlane and his misogyny. Why people think he's funny is beyond me. I'm equally perplexed by the number of people who don't understand that my Mumsnet name : StewieGriffinsMom is meant, you know, ironically and not because I actually want to be defined as a "mother with no name".
Lois Griffin is the ultimate handmaiden: raised by an emotionally abusive father to serve the emotionally abusive drunk she marries. She ignores and minimises the abuse she experiences at the hands of Peter whilst simultaneously ignoring the abuse Peter commits against their children. She ignores the very clear evidence that her son Chris has quite serious difficulties in school. She ignores the fact that her daughter Meg has no friends and is being sexually abused by the mayor. She ignores the fact that the baby is a sociopath. Lois Griffin is a victim too.
Lois Griffin is a victim too. She can not see the abuse that she and her children experience everyday at the hands of the men around them. Yet, Seth MacFarlane and the other writers of Family Guy don't understand that at all. That's why my name is "StewieGriffinsMom" and not Lois Griffin: because it doesn't matter how much abuse men perpetrate, it is always the woman who is responsible.
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