Dines, Gender, Race and Class in Media, 5e
SAGE Publishing, 2018
Web Exercises
Part VII: Still Watching Television in the Digital Age
Size Matters?
This exercise pairs well with the Butsch essay.
1. Watch a few clips from the series that Butsch mentions in the article as linked here: The
Flintstones, All in the Family, Family Guy, The Simpsons, The King of Queens.
2. Ask students if they notice the one thing that the male characters have in common (besides
their buffoonery)? (If they can’t figure it out, it’s that the men are all overweight.)
Feminism versus Classism
1. Watch the following compilation video on YouTube which are highlights from the first
season of the hit program Gilmore Girls.
Go Big or Go Home?
1. Read this article from Quartz (owned by The Atlantic) along with the Jenner essay.