are there OTHER eugenicist "Simpsons" episodes aside from the "Simpson gene" one? yecch ~Chara
Haha, it's "The Simpsons", it's "satire", but the "joke" is that eugenicism is real and there really is a heritable "dysgenic" factor that leads to inevitable dullness of the brain, but it's not expressed in women so THAT'S good! hilarious!
Fuck that noise.
I couldn't help but notice that the "Simpson gene" supposedly doesn't assert itself until mid-childhood. Homer and Bart (for the purpose of one episode) were supposedly brilliant in early childhood and then got dull-witted, like all the Simpsons men do! Because genes. But I find myself thinking: if there's any likely explanation for kids suddenly seeming to get "stupid" in mid-childhood, it's not gonna be "genes".
~Chara of Pnictogen
