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* [[Circle of Shame]]: [[Lampshaded]] by Sue. "This is not happening. The cruel slow-motion laughter is just your imagination."
* [[Circling Monologue]]: Rachel and Sunshine have a choreographed one during their duet of "Telephone".
* [[Clueless Aesop]]:
** Perhaps the most infamous and obvious example was in the season 3 episode "I Kissed A Girl," which was supposed to be about LGBT acceptance after Santana was outed as a lesbian against her will in the previous episode. For starters, despite the title, there were no girls kissing. Rather than focusing on the actual lesbian character, the episode was made all about the atonement of Finn, the guy who outed her, which consisted entirely of suggesting the Glee club do songs "by girls for girls." This wasn't helped by the girls performing Katy Perry's "I Kissed a Girl", which, rather than being a lesbian anthem, is a paean to bi-curious experimentation, making it sound like Santana is just going through a phase rather than being an actual lesbian.
** The previous episode where she was outed carried the Aesop of "Don't out people against their will," but this too was lacking. First, Santana was an [[Alpha Bitch]] who had spent the entire episode bullying Finn, so she was hardly the most sympathetic victim. Second, the outing happened after she was once again making fun of him, at which point he responded, "So when are you going to come out? Everybody knows you have feelings for Brittany..." Finn didn't make a scene nor was he spreading this fact to everybody; he had angrily said the one thing he knew would unnerve her after he grew tired of her insults. Though he did say it loudly in a crowded hallway, it was technically ''someone else'', an unnamed girl looking over her shoulder, who overheard the conversation and told her uncle, who was running for state representative against cheerleading coach Sue Sylvester. He ran a smear ad claiming that Sue was "harboring an open lesbian" on the cheerleading team, and ''that'' was the moment Santana was outed. As you can see, the situation was a little more complicated than "Finn outed Santana," and yet that formed the basis of the next episode. And at no point in ''the entire series'' did Santana ever apologize to anyone for being such a bitch.
** Another example would be "Shooting Star", where they had a school shooting... but the gun going off was entirely accidental and didn't hurt anyone, and a teacher covered for the student at fault. So there were no actual consequences for the student who brought a gun to school and caused gunshots and terrified the entire student body and faculty. Many reviews of the episode claimed the message was lost by the end, or it was a failure, or it could've been much better, etc.
** There's also ''Glee'''s harmful portrayal of eating disorders in season 4. [http://proud2bme.org/node/510 As Catherine Weingarten says], "Marley was convinced to become bulimic to avoid becoming like her [morbidly obese] mother. The mean girl Kitty easily convinces Marley that in order to play the part of “Sandy” in ''Grease'' she has to look a certain way. Marley does not even seem to understand that Kitty is getting her to experiment with dangerous eating disorder behavior. So Marley becomes fully bulimic and later even passes out during sectionals, which prompts everyone in Glee club to hate her. There is so much misinformation here about how one gets an eating disorder and the seriousness of eating disorders. It is common for people to not fully understand what an eating disorder is and only know about them through sensationalist tabloids or TV shows. Now ''Glee'' is adding itself to the list of shows spreading harmful and untrue information about eating disorders. ''Glee'' makes eating disorders seem campy and not very serious. We are supposed to be annoyed by Marley and not even care when she passes out at sectionals." There is also Liana Rosenman who wrote, "It is really dangerous [for ''Glee''] not to include a public service announcement of the dangers of eating disorders." and "Marley has an eating disorder for two days and then magically recovers. That is far from the truth. I struggled with anorexia for five years." [http://http://haveuheard.net/2012/11/glees-eating-disorders-sucks/ Other people have published similar sentiments]: "One topic ''Glee'' has failed horribly at covering is eating disorders. Eating disorders are often life threatening and last night's episode of ''Glee'' made it nothing short of a joke."
** Coach Beiste coming out as female-to-male transgender and beginning the transition process was supposed to carry the message that you're never too old to come out and live openly and happily. The show was trying to cash in on growing transgender visibility in the media, but Beiste was ''already'' popular with transgender/genderqueer viewers for being a masculine, cisgender, straight woman who is upfront about her feelings and insecurities, since she proved that gender expression isn't always cut-and-dry. Making her trans actually made her ''less'' interesting a character, since it carried the implication that ''all'' tomboyish women secretly want to be men.
* [[Color Coded for Your Convenience]]:
** During the "Like a Virgin" sequence, all three women are wearing lilac nightgowns and all three men are wearing dark gray/black shirts (lilac, apparently, symbolizes first love).
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