Yes, and that's what bothers me. If this happened to have any sort of legs, the Nick people would knuckle under and write in a girlfriend character for him.
Every once in a while, something arises from the stew of children's programming that is not total crap. I suspect that SBSP might be one of those things -- I only saw a half-hour of it and decided that it wasn't going to distract me from The Powerpuff Girls, which is the Bullwinkle of our age. If the gay comunity enjoys SBSP, it's because they have the freedom to watch children's shows and pick the good ones.
But this entire notion of placing fantasy children's characters in our context is extremely annoying to me. Sesame Street introduced Elmo because Grover was seen to be "old". I don't know what possessed Warner Brothers to do it, but when they made the Tweety movie they announced that the title character was male. When I enjoyed these shows as a child, these are not issues that even subconsciously affected me. Cartoon and puppet characters live in a world apart, without age or gender or sexual identity, and even good-natured people who misunderstand that point diminish their world and ours by conflating them.
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Date: 2005-01-20 10:24 pm (UTC)Every once in a while, something arises from the stew of children's programming that is not total crap. I suspect that SBSP might be one of those things -- I only saw a half-hour of it and decided that it wasn't going to distract me from The Powerpuff Girls, which is the Bullwinkle of our age. If the gay comunity enjoys SBSP, it's because they have the freedom to watch children's shows and pick the good ones.
But this entire notion of placing fantasy children's characters in our context is extremely annoying to me. Sesame Street introduced Elmo because Grover was seen to be "old". I don't know what possessed Warner Brothers to do it, but when they made the Tweety movie they announced that the title character was male. When I enjoyed these shows as a child, these are not issues that even subconsciously affected me. Cartoon and puppet characters live in a world apart, without age or gender or sexual identity, and even good-natured people who misunderstand that point diminish their world and ours by conflating them.