Alison Bechdel's Fun Home

People’s Reactions to Fun Home
The issue of morality or ethics, in general, has long been controversial. The various parties are yet to agree on a particular standard to be used in the evaluation of people’s actions—when is someone right or wrong, or what even is right or wrong? While some claim that the motives behind an act determine the wrongness or rightness of the action, others believe the religious or judicial soundness is a better determinant. This equivocality of ethics is evident in overwhelming reactions of incoming freshmen to the general reading exercise, Fun Home. It is an award winning graphical autobiography of Alison Bechdel who creatively used comics to illustrate her past—a homosexual growing

Although his thesis was not explicitly stated, his creative approach postulates his argument that the reactions from students concerning Fun House are hilarious and unwarranted—“the whole summer reading list is just a recommendation….” Nevertheless, he only informs the readers that there is an ongoing trend and fails to call for a line of action. So Duke recommended the book and many students rejected the book which you have found the student’s reaction hilarious, what should we do then? I wondered. This vague evaluation of his thesis dilutes his essay and rendered Grasso’s argument more sound and effective. Grasso, unlike Barsanti, attacked the article quite seriously. He affirms his readers of his open-mindedness at some occasions— “I’m not opposed to reading memoirs written by LGBTQ individuals or stories containing suicide. I’m not even opposed to reading Freud, Marx or Darwin”. Sigmund Freud is an Austrian neurologist who wrote theories that supports seductions and use of hard drugs like cocaine in human development and viewed monotheistic God as an illusion grounded on the puerile emotional need for a

Instead, he simply offered the evidence, “…Duke…seems pretty cool with all this, reiterating to CNN that the whole summer is just a recommendation.” Grasso, on the other hand, offered a minor argument which is clearly supported by his personal experiences with students from different religious backgrounds. He argued that “cultural pluralism will lose its value if students aren’t allowed to follow their beliefs, even if they are conservatives.” He emphasized on the feedbacks he got from the Muslim man—“…people…throw away their identity in college in the name of secularism, open-mindedness, or liberalism.” Emphasizing on this statement, Grasso pointed out that by asking him to read what doesn’t fully conform to his belief, Duke University is forcing him to compromise his Christian belief. In this way, cultural diversity which most colleges strive to attain loses its relevance. Then he offered a clear illustration of how diversity is meant to work by summarizing his conversation with a bisexual Buddhist. “Instead of criticizing me, she asked me to explain my belief. I, in turn, asked her to explain the Buddhist perspective on sexuality. This is how diversity is supposed to work.” By this