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‘Popeye’ Comic Strip Getting Woke Makeover with ‘More Characters Who Aren’t Heterosexual’
Breitbart ^ | 07/06/2022 | David NG

Posted on 07/06/2022 4:49:49 PM PDT by DFG

After nearly a hundred years in existence, the Popeye comic strip is reportedly getting a woke makeover, with the strip’s latest cartoonist promising more ethnic diversity and “more characters who aren’t heterosexual.”

Cartoonist Randal K. Milholland described the Popeye character as being “gender fluid,” citing old episodes in which the plot required Popeye to dress in drag.

“I [want] to bring in more characters who aren’t heterosexual,” Milholland said in an interview with the San Antonio Express-News. “I don’t live in that purely straight white world, and I don’t think a lot of other people do either.”

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TOPICS: Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: blowmedown; culturerot; cylinda; homofascism; milholland; popeye; randalmilholland; woke
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1 posted on 07/06/2022 4:49:49 PM PDT by DFG
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To: DFG

The pink mafia screws up everything.


2 posted on 07/06/2022 4:53:22 PM PDT by ealgeone
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To: DFG

I’ve always wondered what’s up with Wimpy...and how about those sea hags always kidnapping Olive Oyl?


3 posted on 07/06/2022 4:53:39 PM PDT by seowulf (Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty, and dies with chaos...Will Durant)
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To: DFG

Well, he was a sailor that probably got lonely at sea while Bluto was entertaining Olive Oyl ashore.


4 posted on 07/06/2022 4:53:42 PM PDT by PAR35
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To: DFG

I didn’t know Popeye was still around.

Would that HE weren’t.

Sick of these weirdo enablers changing everything.


5 posted on 07/06/2022 4:55:01 PM PDT by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMVds)
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To: DFG

Can people just leave well enough alone, So Popeye will now be Gay or bisexual, what will become of Olive Oyl , Bluto, and Wimpy???????


6 posted on 07/06/2022 4:55:11 PM PDT by Captain Peter Blood
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To: DFG

Oh no. Wonder what they are going to do with Alice the Goon.


7 posted on 07/06/2022 4:55:15 PM PDT by mware (RETIRED)
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To: DFG

pure GAIDS!!! fnhell...


8 posted on 07/06/2022 4:56:01 PM PDT by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. #FJB)
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To: DFG

“I yam what I yam” brings on a whole new meaning. 🤣


9 posted on 07/06/2022 5:00:26 PM PDT by cuban leaf (My prediction: Harris is Spiro Agnew. We'll soon see who becomes Gerald Ford, and our next prez.)
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Cartoonist Randal K. Milholland described the Popeye character as being “gender fluid,” citing old episodes in which the plot required Popeye to dress in drag.

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Yeah just like Milton Berle, or Jack Lemmon and Tony Curtis in “Some Like It Hot”, or the Three Stooges in several of their episodes. All big gender fluid guys.


10 posted on 07/06/2022 5:00:49 PM PDT by Southside_Chicago_Republican (The more I learn about people, the more I like my dog. )
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To: DFG

Popeye is in the Navy after all…


11 posted on 07/06/2022 5:00:51 PM PDT by griswold3 (When chaos serves the State, the State will encourage chaos.)
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To: DFG

Cross-dressing used to be a topic of humor, not a sacrament. “That’s all I can stands cause I can’t stands no more!”


12 posted on 07/06/2022 5:02:15 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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So, "Spinach" is the nickname of his male friend?

"I fights to the finish, cuz I eats me Spinach, says Popeye the Sailor Man!"

13 posted on 07/06/2022 5:04:29 PM PDT by Lazamataz (The firearms I own today, are the firearms I will die with. How I die will be up to them.)
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To: DFG

Leave old cartoons alone. Create new cartoons and feel free to do with what you want to do.


14 posted on 07/06/2022 5:04:38 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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What, Alice the Goon isn’t good enough? n/s


15 posted on 07/06/2022 5:08:58 PM PDT by cameraeye (A happy khafir!)
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To: ealgeone

They can’t just create their own stories but must distort ours.


16 posted on 07/06/2022 5:10:24 PM PDT by TheDon (Resist the usurpers)
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To: DFG

Sweet Pea is sooo screwed.


17 posted on 07/06/2022 5:12:33 PM PDT by Palio di Siena
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To: DFG
This is just more recruitment and grooming on a mass scale.
We may not have noticed but we're actually at the level of Sodom where for all intents and purpose the culture is shouting at us, "bring out the young men that we may know them!"
18 posted on 07/06/2022 5:13:02 PM PDT by stormhill
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19 posted on 07/06/2022 5:21:39 PM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: the OlLine Rebel

I would love to see a remake of Popeye. I think Jeremy Renner would make a great Popeye with Liam Neesom as his old man. Not a musical remake though although the 1980 Robin Williams version was terrific, but it should be more fantasy/action-adventure though. And the Sea Hag should be the villain, not Bluto.


20 posted on 07/06/2022 5:21:45 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist
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