Parasocial Activity: Lisa G’s Character

Lisa Simpson seems particularly poignant as a character that informed my identity in my early life. Like the Simpsons, my family had three children, an older brother, middle child named Lisa, and a younger baby sister. I related to Lisa because we had the same names and were both full of anxiety directed towards our family culture and achievement. Different from Lisa, my older brother was naturally much smarter than me, and this became a paradigm of early childhood. We still enacted the Bart and Lisa roles from time to time, and he would also sing the “Lisa, it’s Your Birthday Song” to me on my birthday.

Runner Ups: The women of Friends, Bell from Beauty and the Beast, Ariel from the Little Mermaid, cast of Saved by the Bell.