Posted on 06/22/2004 6:56:15 AM PDT by Laissez-faire capitalist
Summary: The DreamWorks' animated film, "Shrek 2," is billed as harmless entertainment but contains subtle sexual messages.
Parents who are thinking about taking their children to see "Shrek 2", may wish to consider the following: The movie features a male-to-female transgender (in transition) as an evil bartender. The character has a five o'clock shadow, wears a dress and has female breasts. It is clear that he is a she-male. His voice is that of talk show host Larry King.
During a dance scene at the end of the movie, this transgendered man expresses sexual desire for Prince Charming, jumps on him, and both tumble to the floor.
In another scene in the movie, Shrek and Donkey need to be rescued from a dungeon where they are chained against the wall. The rescue is conducted by pinnochio who is asked to lie so his nose will grow long enough for one of the smaller cartoon characters to use it as a bridge to reach Shrek and Donkey. Donkey encourages him to lie about something and suggetsts he lie about wearing women's underwear. When he denies wearing women's underwear, his nose begins to grow.
An earlier scene in the movie features a wolf dressed in grandma's clothing and reading a book when Prince Charming encounters him. Later, one of the characters refers to the wolf's gender confusion.
TVC's report "A gender Identity Disorder Goes Mainstream" explains the transgender agenda and the effort to deconstruct the biological reality of male and female. DreamWorks is helping in this effort by promoting cross dressing and transgenderism in this animated film.
I like the following analogy. Suppose I baked up some nice chocolaty brownies with just a dash of dog crap mixed in. Would anyone feed it to their children?
And the "food" that we put into our minds is more important than the food that we put into our bodies.
It appears to be working. :-)
You guys probably about had a conniption then when A Bug's Life came out, what with the male lady bug and all.
Spot on Blunt. These people think they are helping us parents when all they are actually doing is creating more problems for us in the form of giving us another extreme to fight against. It's the classic legalism/liberalsim battle everywhere. Sound minded people avoid philosophical extremes.
It is STILL a "kid's movie", and both kids and adults will always think of it as such.
Just as we think Cinderella is a kid's movie.
How is it that that didn't need all those "adult" (read: *immature* childish sexuality and profanity and crude behavior - yes, including farting) innuendoes and such?
I'm not talking about things generally only more knowledgeable adults would know about - Bugs Bunny was replete w/that kind of stuff: historical references, arts references, contemporary issues, etc. I'm talking about baseness, crudity. Ugliness.
Amen!!! My oldest daughter has been begging to see this, but no way will she. I wouldn't let her watch this any more than I would let her the read the children's book King and King. It is to say this person's life is harmless and acceptable.
The ones who have the mental disorder by which they can't figure out which gender they are, are the ones that are obsessed. They are the ones who are so obsessed with crossdressing/transvesticism that they want it taught as 'normal' like they are attempting to do in California. You have me confused with them, homosexual apologist. If these gay activists weren't so stuck on their mental disorders/fixations then I wouldn't have to address this, now would I? Please, save your energy and talk for the people who need talking to...The morons who want to crossdress.
What is gender confused underwear? Well, for starters, you probably do wear gender-confused underwear. It being the smarter of the two(you and it) it no doubt has to make the decision, albeit the wrong one, as to what you shall wear.
"You Know too much about this subject."
Puhleeze..here we go again with that closet crap. I've seen that brought up more than once against me and dozens of others I have seen take on polarizing issues...issues that gays, gay activists, and homosexual apologists would rather not be brought up...issues that deal with, for instance, the mental illness of cross-dressing.
I want a tinfoil corset! The leather one is just too hot for these humid Houston summers.
Anti-gun, my butt. FGS, the movie was about a deer's life. Big surprise they mite encounter hunting. And while you assume the hunters are white, you don't actually see that, so that's moot.
Heck, unlike some modern movie version, Bambi's mother would be shown shot thru, lying there w/pieces of flesh and lots of blood all over. That's the ugliness of today. Old Walt Disney didn't need that. He simply gave the foreboding fear, the escape, and the fact that Mama wasn't still w/Bambi. It was bad enough she didn't make it and Bambi couldn't find her. We were saddened by that - and incidentally, NOT desensitized to the gore of a violent death.
"Anti-hero" is focusing on a character who is (greatly) flawed. I mean, we SEE it. He's repugnant, yet we're supposed to sympathize w/him (hence, "sympathetic character"). For an obvious example, think "Godfather", or "GoodFellas", etc. Almost all modern movies are based on the "imperfect" (duh! but he doesn't have to be an immoral ass!) "anti-hero". If Bambi were an anti-hero movie, the hunters would be the focus of the movie and we'd somehow end up liking them, even if they're obviously assholes.
Exceptions these days to that anti-hero mode are e.g. in the Star Wars movies, or even the Star Trek movies of the original cast. Good is good, and bad is bad. Very clear boundaries in those "unsophisticated" movies.
You mean to tell us you have NEVER seen a cartoon in which Bugs Bunny dresses as a woman? You didn't watch much Bugs, did ya?
LOL!! I'm not apologist.
I just like getting under your very thin skin.
Are you teasing the Chihuahua again?
"Anti-hero" is focusing on a character who is (greatly) flawed. I mean, we SEE it. He's repugnant, yet we're supposed to sympathize w/him (hence, "sympathetic character"). For an obvious example, think "Godfather", or "GoodFellas", etc. Almost all modern movies are based on the "imperfect" (duh! but he doesn't have to be an immoral ass!) "anti-hero". "
As are many of the popular Shakespearean tragedies, which pre-date Hollywood by about 400+ years. Coincidentally, the female characters in Shakespearean plays were always played by male actors who 'cross-dressed'.
So remember - when your kids are taught Shakespeare, they're actually being taught that 'anti-heroes' are to be worshipped and that men should act as women! [/sarcasm]
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