In the show Will and Grace, it centers around the relationships of heterosexual and homosexual men and women. With a show that bases so much of its content on homosexual characters lacks in representing a wide variety of aspects. While I love the show and think it is a great sitcom, it just plays into the rest of the sitcom stereotypes. They give you the gay character but they only give you part of it. It is nice, however, to see the characters not fall into the same dynamic that other sitcoms often do. Instead they show Will and Jack, the two main gay characters, having multiple relationships that are not always monogamous. This is a big change since most other shows portray gays as having the same mindset that everyone is suppose to have drilled into them and even though heterosexuals are represented in the media as having more than one kind of relationship mindset, it is nice to see a gay person not seen in the media light as being married or having children. It is important to give gays the same representation as heterosexuals have especially because of the day and age we live in. People are a lot more open minded so why shouldn't media be. Even still the show Will and Grace does not come full circle by any means. They show did have an episode where Jack was so desperately waiting the gay kiss that was suppose to be featured on his favorite television show but was not shown because of network censorship. This kiss was made a big deal on the show and in the end Will ends up kissing Jack to show that major kiss but despite the message that was shown by the show, it never really went above that level of intimacy. They never really had that much that went beyond a peck or two and even then that was not seen very often. This was kinda strange considering the fact that the show surrounded two gay men. In fact, most of the kissing was seen between the men and women despite the fact that the men were gay. This lack of representation plays into the articles and speculation of the media and how they only show certain amount of homosexuality.
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Nice point. What other stereotypes did the show engage with?
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