"At least We're Not THOSE People"

As we discussed in class, on class,  about the middle class, it is apparent that it is here there and everywhere. An unprovoked perception of the middle class can range all the way from the lives of the Simpsons up to the huxtables. So as we found it, to be middle class is to be a common man, even if that means you are a doctor, a lawyer, a factory manager, or even a toy maker.

What I find from our class on monday was that the representation of the middle class comes not from the size of ones wallet, but rather the the personality offered by the characters. You most defiantly would not find Homer Simson and Bill Cosby living on the same street, yet you can probably see them bickering together in a Home DePot. They both have long days at work, they come home to families that never sleep, and there is always something they've done wrong followed by some sort of laugh track. The life of a middle class family man in the media is one of perpetual motion, only waiting for a time to sit and relax.

As a middle class male I grew up enjoying these shows. I loved the them because I could relate to the way the shows went over the top in pointing out the flaws of middle class families. Ye in retrospect I guess I looked at such families as the simpsons as being working class. Not to say that I scoffed at a blue collar family, but rather that I found the apparent inappropriateness of Homer Simpson as funny. While the show is a great satire of middle America, Its also in my opinion that shows exploiting the middle class as so economically wide, begs you to wonder if its passing on the ideology of not begin of the working class, or in other words, the "lower class".