March of the Penguins

[pegkerr]

Gacked from Wonkette:

Today, the New York Times investigates the Christian conservatives' fifth column: Penguins. Turns out conservatives have become unlikely champions of the documentary "March of the Penguins," saying, among other things, that the film promotes monogamy and family values. Clearly, no one has told them about the gay penguins (of course, they choose to be gay).

Article here.

Comments

[callunav.livejournal.com]

Clearly, there needs to be a sequel!

[moodyduck.livejournal.com]

Also no one has told them that the penguins in the movie are not monogamous. They may only meet up again with the previous year's mate about 15% of the time. Many of the smaller penguins--the ones that make nests--are fairly monogamous, but not the emperor or king penguins.

I got a good laugh and an LJ rant about scientific illiteracy out of that article.

[markgritter.livejournal.com]

As long as family values imply:

-- Mother and Father spending only tiny amounts of time with each other.
-- Mother and Father divorcing as soon as the kids are teenagers.
-- Abandoning your children before they're fully adult
-- Standing idly by while predators attack the neighborhood kids

then, yes, this is a perfect family values movie. I don't think the movie did a particularly good job of selling its own internal theme of being a "love story", let alone making a good conservative statement.

[nmsunbear.livejournal.com]

I don't think the movie did a particularly good job of selling its own internal theme of being a "love story"

Me either. I wanted a lot less heart-warming gush and a lot more facts. I'll take any of David Attenborough's BBC nature series over "March of the Penguins" any day.