I have to confess that I find the Simpsons hilarious, and have done so since they first lightened our TV screens a long, long time ago for a TV series. So do my kids.

However, neither their mother nor my partner finds them very amusing at all. I've often wondered why :S

And where does that put Whitty's point?

I think I have given off the wrong impression in my post. I don't have anything against Homer or the Simpsons. It makes a lot of social commentary I find really amusing. I think the existence of Homer character is in a large part due to feminist objection to men. He embodies everything men are admonished about by women. He is the rebel in a PC world.

I remember a duff beer ad where they squirted some angry protesting feminists with beer, and they stripped off into bikinis and started dancing.

Some have got the impression that I think The Simpsons causes the attitudes, or have even come to the conclusion I'm advocating censorship. Nothing could be further from the truth.

I am interested in whether feminists who call for bans on negative depictions of women are consistent when it comes to negative depictions of men though. I remember reading 'Politically Correct Bedtime Stories', and while meant to be funny and succeeding, I think it really exposed the stupidity of a lot of left winger feminists in the education department.

I think really The Simpsons illustrate the reality of how men and women are seen. As I said in my opening line 'I'm beginning to think that Homer Simpson is the most true representation of how men are seen in society. '

The Simpsons - absolutely hillarious - is a very clever social satire.

Every character is a satirically drawn ...

And ... A nuclear plant - and built in the centre of town!

The Simpsons is a social satire, and very cleverly exposed.

To read into this series anying more, or less, is not to do the scriptwriters justice.