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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsIs Winnie the Pooh Transgender or Intersex?
One town in Poland seems to think so and they are not happy about it.
Winnie the Pooh, the beloved animated bear that has delighted children worldwide, has been banned from a playground in Tuszyn, Poland, because the city council there believes the bear is either transgender, intersex, or gay. According to The Independent, Winnie was being considered as the new famous character that would adorn the citys new playground, when the idea soon sparked outrage among more conservative members, with one councilor even calling the Pooh bear a hermaphrodite.
The meeting was secretly recorded by a (presumably more liberal) city council member then leaked to local media. The Independent reported council member Ryszard Cichy saying, The problem with that bear is it doesnt have a complete wardrobe. It is half naked which is wholly inappropriate for children. [Polands fictional bear] is dressed from head to toe, unlike Pooh who is only dressed from the waist up.
Another council member, Hanna Jachimska, also attacked the creator of Winnie the Pooh, author AA Milne, lambasting, This is very disturbing, but can you imagine, the author was over 60 and cut [Poohs] testicles off with a razor blade because he had a problem with his identity.
http://www.advocate.com/politics/transgender/2014/11/22/winnie-pooh-transgender-or-intersex
OMFG!
Rex
(65,616 posts)sometimes hurts. I can't believe grown adults would have that kind of conversation over a drawing.
Grow the FUCK up.
Xipe Totec
(43,890 posts)Children of mixed gender sleep together totally innocently.
Rex
(65,616 posts)I guess they don't know about extended families that sleep 13 to a bed.
Drahthaardogs
(6,843 posts)I don't know about you, but my Teddy Bear was lacking a penis. In fact, as a parent now, I am not really sure I would buy an anatomically correct Teddy Near.
Erich Bloodaxe BSN
(14,733 posts)elleng
(131,006 posts)Nye Bevan
(25,406 posts)Xipe Totec
(43,890 posts)In_The_Wind
(72,300 posts)jberryhill
(62,444 posts)I don't really know much about cartoon character sexuality, but I'm pretty sure that Winnie the Pooh is a cartoon bear.
Bears are wild animals which can be dangerous if disturbed or annoyed by humans.
Winnie the Pooh does not seem to behave much like a bear, and has apparently befriended a number of animals which a bear would more likely treat as prey, with the exception of animals not native to bear habitats. For example, one of Winnie the Pooh's friends is a tiger. I don't think a bear/tiger interaction of any sort would go well.
Likewise, Winnie the Pooh's habitat includes a kangaroo, as well as a tiger. Kangaroos are native to places in which there are very few or no indigenous placental mammals. Non-placental mammals and marsupials would not, I expect, do well in places inhabited by bears.
So, there are quite a few things odd about Winnie the Pooh as a bear, let alone whether there is some question as to what sorts of sexual identities one finds among bears, or even fictional cartoon bears.
Rex
(65,616 posts)I mean, what kind of depraved lunatic shows full frontal nudity in a children's book!
jberryhill
(62,444 posts)When I'm wearing a hat and a bow tie, I don't consider myself "nude".
Rex
(65,616 posts)Followed by the third book in the series - Horton Needs Psychological Counseling.
ctaylors6
(693 posts)Rex
(65,616 posts)I can't believe the Families Values crowd hasn't worked up enough outrage to get it removed.
jberryhill
(62,444 posts)itsrobert
(14,157 posts)Bear. And Mr Ranger was whoo Boo Boo acused.
jberryhill
(62,444 posts)Cleita
(75,480 posts)When I was a kid I asked for a Winnie the Pooh book for my birthday and my dad objected to the Pooh thing. He thought I was being a smart aleck until one of my teachers pointed out to him at a meeting about my behavior that it was a child's book and I wasn't being bratty at all in that respect. He had brought it up as part of his problem with me.
TheKentuckian
(25,026 posts)What kind of deviants not only take time to consider Pooh's sequel inclinations but actually would fixate on such nonsense?
HereSince1628
(36,063 posts)A stuffed animal you remember as big assed? Please, relax and tell me about your feelings...
TheKentuckian
(25,026 posts)Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)DO THE MATH
ChazII
(6,205 posts)Now to get that song out of my head. I know, Tigger's theme song.
DeadLetterOffice
(1,352 posts)Actually, I always thought Pooh-bear was fictional. But whatever.
Remember when one of the Teletubbies was gay because of a purse?
Some people are just bizarre. Obsessed, and bizarre.
JustAnotherGen
(31,828 posts)Starry Messenger
(32,342 posts)(I'm going to hell.)
William769
(55,147 posts)ChisolmTrailDem
(9,463 posts)He is honeysexual!
xfundy
(5,105 posts)Hate, fear and outrage always find eager buyers. USA! USA!
jberryhill
(62,444 posts)jberryhill
(62,444 posts)I'll bet this guy knows....
SidDithers
(44,228 posts)Sid
PersonNumber503602
(1,134 posts)Warpy
(111,292 posts)and all male. The picklefaced Puritans on the city council need to take deep breaths and try to achieve a better grip on reality.
What Milne might have been has no bearing on his charming children's stories.
Odd that they so easily condemn the man and his work without compassionately considering the massive pain he was in.
Prunefaced hyper religious sex phobes and busybodies of all types need to be put on house arrest so they could concentrate on the afterlife and we wouldn't have to put up with them.
Kalidurga
(14,177 posts)I guess the nudity would be okay if Milne left Pooh err intact?
PS question. Winnie the Pooh could be a female bear right?
Prophet 451
(9,796 posts)He's explicitly referred to as "he" several times in the books. I mean, it's theoretically possible he was a female bear living as a male but I think we'd be overthinking Milne's creation then.
AngryAmish
(25,704 posts)Deliberate decision.
Rhiannon12866
(205,657 posts)zazen
(2,978 posts)Each character represents a particular form of egoic delusion.
Friggin' idiots, to literalize a "wedged bear in a great tightness" to mean homosexuality. We all get mightily metaphorically stuck, but I have to wonder about these people who see homosexuality in everything.
Prophet 451
(9,796 posts)I was raised on the Pooh books to the extent that I still have a stuffed Pooh bear next to my bed (and I'm 38) and my father, who is a Taoist, explained his beliefs by giving me a copy of The Tao Of Pooh. They're completely innocent, non-sexual beings and Milne's claimed mental illness doesn't affect the timeless charm of his creations.
msanthrope
(37,549 posts)Kaleva
(36,315 posts)madinmaryland
(64,933 posts)Jamaal510
(10,893 posts)SamKnause
(13,108 posts)Winnie the Pooh is a fictional cartoon character.
Only religious fanatics are concerned about the sex or sex lives of fictional cartoon characters.
cherokeeprogressive
(24,853 posts)Dreamer Tatum
(10,926 posts)Wonder what they're afraid of...