Seth MacFarlane

Seth MacFarlane

Seth MacFarlane is an American animator. He is the creator of Family Guy and co-creator of American Dad! and The Cleveland Show. He made his live action directorial debut in 2012 with Ted. He also hosted the 85th Academy Awards.

Examples of misogyny

Many people claim that MacFarlane's work is thinly-veiled misogyny, including transmisogyny. A good portion of the jokes on his shows consist solely of main characters behaving in what are clearly intended to be creepy/sexually predatory ways.

General

• MacFarlane singing a song at the Academy Awards in which he lists actresses whose breasts were exposed in various movies. Some of the scenes that he mentioned were rape scenes.
  • One of the rape scenes that he mentioned was Hillary Swank in Boys Don't Cry, a film based on the true story of the rape and murder of a trans* man named Brandon Teena.

Family Guy

• Rape scene played for comedy
• Quagmire rapes Marge Simpson
• Brian has sex with a trans woman, then vomits when he learns she's not cis

Ted

• Objectifies women (pictured)

External Links

• Seth MacFarlane at the Internet Movie Database