Modern Family, The L word and telling our stories Summary

Modern Family, and other popular sitcoms incorporating LGBT characters into their show, are frustrating many in the LGBT community. The episode in which Mitchell and Cam, a white middle class homosexual couple, are attempting to enroll their Asian adopted daughter into the most prestigious preschool possible is found to be stereotypical and unoriginal. They attempt to "outdiverse" the other parents attempting to enroll their kids in the school, as it is a highly competitive institution. They ultimately get "outdiversed" when an interracial lesbian couple, one being handicapped, with a black daughter eventually get the bid. This plot line, or one being very similar, was done on the old TV show The L word back in 2008. The LGBT community is becoming annoyed with the same old plot lines for the LGBT characters on TV. The plot lines rarely involve real life issues and situations the LGBT community goes through on a daily basis. Rudolph suggests that the TV producers involved actual LGBT people to help with plot lines and portrayal of LGBT lives on the TV and movie screen. This may help the producers be more original and less offensive to the community it is hoping to depict. I have to agree with the article for the most part that LGBT plot lines are generally unoriginal and are not doing to LGBT community justice. TV producers might see benefits in incorporating LGBT people when producing characters or plot lines involving the LGBT lifestyle of daily lives. Depicting the LGBT community accurately and with clever story lines could even benefit the audience and encourage more to watch the program as well.