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Everybody Loves Raymond

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In this episode of "Everybody Loves Raymond" the boys are subjected to what Ray and his father deem as gay behavior, or behaviors that will lead to them becoming gay. The family is torn when most of the family is okay with the boys being fairies but Ray's father is not. Also, once Ray finds out that she volunteered the boys to be fairies, he also disagrees with their roles. The family is mostly in harmony with the exception of Ray and his father. When Ray goes to change the boys' roles, the wife is upset and we can see that the harmony is broken between Ray and his wife. Ray's father thinks that because he is the patriarch of the family, that everyone should bow down to him and do whatever he thinks should be done. This is the power struggle that causes the conflict within the family. Had he not been so insistent on the boys not being fairies, there possibly may have never been an argument about it in the first place. There is an instance of institutions working together when Ray is siding with the rest of the family saying that his boys can do whatever they want and going against his father. Usually, the men stick with the men and the women with the women, when Ray sides with the women, this is a shock to the audience. Personally, my family would have not agreed with me being a fairy in a school play. I would have been picked on until I decided that I didn't want to be a fairy anymore. When Ray goes back to the school to get his boys' roles back, he learns that the teacher has already reassigned the roles of the fairies to two other children. When he asks for the roles back, the teacher tells Ray that his boys "aren't quite cut out for (that) position." To further build upon the anger and jealousy that is growing inside of Ray, the teacher tells him that the other boys are much better and "lighter on their feet" than Ray's sons. Upon returning home, Ray moves all of the furniture out of the way and calls for his sons. He abandons al

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