On Brand / How work gets passed down, and what changes on the way

Community · S06E04 · 2015-03-31

Queer Studies and Advanced Waxing

Written by Matt Lawton. Directed by Jim Rash & Nat Faxon.

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Well I got a part in a play and we were sort of talking about that, so read the room Pelton.

- Are you gonna take the job? - I don't know, there's a catch.

Jeffrey, Frankie, could I see you in my office please? They want you to be a token homosexual? It's a form of progress, 30 years ago, the most power an openly gay could achieve was a center square.

- But I'm not just gay.

- What does that mean? If coming out is a magic show, and gayness is the rabbit out of the hat, I'm one of those never-ending handkerchiefs.

The sad truth, Craig? Anything other than straight, is plenty gay for a school board.

The most important point is, are you prepared to make your sexuality, which is nobody's business, an aspect of your role in society? I know I'm not, so I don't.

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Privacy: entitlement against refusal. The outside professional's private life becomes the group's business, and the group's private lives become hers.

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No? When a person becomes symbolic they gain symbolic power, at the price of independent power.

Yep.

That's an excellent point.

It could be good for Greendale, for one of our own to be on the school board.

I mean the fact that you'd be leaving a few items off your list of your turn-ons, I mean, the goal in politics, isn't transparency, it's winning.

- That's why the politicians always win.