The Unbearable Gayness of Children's Television (Hilarious)

[freeandbrave]

As you may know, the right-wing extremists have kidnapped cartoon icon Sponge Bob Square Pants in their hope to instill hatred in the hearts of all little boys and girls.

Outrage is the natural reaction, but let's put this in context...Sponge Bob is but the latest in a string of childhood characters that have been chosen as targets for hateful conservatives.

Check out this excellent article that gives a hilarious history of Right-wing homophobia targeted at children’s television:

The Unbearable Gayness of Children's Television by Drew Johnston

[prodigal_green]

1. talking about it on Unfiltered right now

very very funny right now. Playing "gay" clips.

[freeandbrave]

2. Holy crap

That is hysterical. Is there any way to get a clip for a website?

[Chipper Chat]

3. I am organizing a neighborhood meeting tonight.

We are going to build a big bonfire and throw all the spongebob sqaurepants books, videos, & CDs in. That should teach our 4 year old children not to have any gay thoughts, or "Uncle Jerry" and "Grandpa Dobson" will come and take their Jell-O away.

[freeandbrave]

16. Great, Where ya gonna be...

...I'll bring along my kid's batman action figures...and I might as well toss in those f*cking carebears as well. Gay little bastards!

[wtmusic]

4. Time to double up on the meds

Paul Batura, assistant to Mr. Dobson at Focus on the Family, said the group stood by its accusation.

"We see the video as an insidious means by which the organization is manipulating and potentially brainwashing kids," he said.

[freeandbrave]

20. What a crackpot!

This is the same organization responsible for about 99% of the FCC complaints about TV programming under the lead of loser Michael Powell...thankfully resigned today!

[Pachamama]

5. I thought "sponges" were A-Sexual?

Just wondering how they figure an A-sexual sponge is Gay... :eyes:

[freeandbrave]

7. Sponge = Contraceptive

Perhaps they targeted Sponge Bob because he represents a type of contraception. As we all know, contraception means premarital and or gay sex, which of course we also know to be inherently unGodly. Right?

[wtmusic]

15. "Square pants" = dead giveaway

"Square pants" are necessary for a "square" anatomy, i.e., square peg in a round hole, i.e. doesn't fit with "normal" society. Is this not obvious???? </sarc>

[Pithy Cherub]

6. Hilarious!

Is there a march being organized by the world community of cartoons for the blatant discrimination of cartoon profiling? It is so sad that the people profiling are the ones on TV that have the huge pink poodle pouf hairdos', exaggerated painted faces and chirping voices... :evilgrin:

[freeandbrave]

21. Marches don't work

Haven't you heard? Marches are ineffective tools of protest. Instead, the cartoon characters should set aside a day and spend not one damn cartoon dime in their cartoon stores for their cartoon products...thus harming the cartoon small business owners. You know, like Mr. Crabby.

[beam me up scottie]

8. Peppermint Patti is a lesbian???

Must be those sandals she wears, none of the other Peanuts characters wear them.

[freeandbrave]

10. Lesbian? No...

Tomboy, perhaps. Either way. WHO CARES!

[Caria]

9. It's just a diversion

to get people talking about a cartoon character INSTEAD OF real, pressing issues.
Even the CNN poll is about Spongebob today. Ask not whether Spongebob is gay; ask what they DON"T want us to be thinking about.

[freeandbrave]

17. Yellow and Porous is he

Ongoing results of the CNN Poll

SpongeBob SquarePants is:

Promoting the acceptance of homosexuality - 10% - 7283 votes

Promoting tolerance and diversity - 18% - 12335 votes

Absorbent, yellow and porous - 72% - 50419 votes

[freeandbrave]

19. Liberal Bias

I'm sure the wingnuts will claim that their poor showing in the poll is the result of 'liberal bias'.

[ldf]

24. anti-gay is the hate issue of choice

by dobson/falwell/etc and their so-called "christians".

since it worked so well in the election, they must keep all of america obsessing about gay sex, using any means necessary, for as long as it takes for them to push through their fascist agenda.

if it is sex, fox and cnn (with all their offshoots, clones PLUS the pathetic mainstream media) will cover it 24/7. that way we don't have to be bothered with the fact that the american experiment of democracy is dead-dead-dead.

[beam me up scottie]

11. Did you read the letter from jesus ? Hysterical!

nt
:evilgrin:

[freeandbrave]

12. Frequent Appearances from Jesus

I've been seeing alot from 'Jesus' in the comments sections of various sites and I have to say, he comes up with some great stuff!

[underpants]

13. Hi again, this is Jesus.

Hi again, this is Jesus. Just wanted to thank Steve for his insightful analysis of the usefulness of "hating faggots". Good job Steve!

As anyone who has read the New Testament knows, I've made numerous pronouncements of my abhorrence for gays. You can find it right after my barrage of epithets targeted toward 'negroes', women, the poor, children, old people, and those pain-in-the-ass cripples who insist on suckling of the public teat.

[freeandbrave]

14. It's good to know he's on our side.

But we've know that all along.

[beam me up scottie]

26. "he does exist!"

said one M&M candy to the other.

[liberalmom]

18. This weirdness has been going on for awhile.

[beam me up scottie]

22. LOL! Never saw that one!

nt
:headbang:

[_NorCal_D_]

25. That's a great one!

Here's one of my favorites:

[SmokingJacket]

23. Anything that is not overtly heterosexual is gay to them.

If it's not all about studly men seducing big breasted women, it's gay.

Sick assholes.

[Chipper Chat]

27. Strange, but you never hear condemnations of high-school

boys hugging, feeling each other up, butt-slapping, & even kissing right ON the football field during games. And this goes on even in the red states.
When will we hear Dobson preaching that all athletic events must stop because they are promoting homosexuality?

[BeeBee]

28. Next they'll be going after Yogi and BooBoo...

What's this world coming to?

[neebob]

29. Hey, what about those Boo-bah things that look like colored penises

and then they turn into a rainbow-colored ball and fly around and make kids dance? Haven't they noticed how gay that is?

Meet Humbah, Zumbah, Zing Zing Zingbah, Jumbah, and Jingbah:

http://pbskids.org/boohbah/noflash/patterns/index.html

You really have to see the show to get the penis effect.

[TheMightyFavog]

31. Boobah is some freaky ass shit.

I'm under the impression that the creators of that show got the idea for it after reading The Elegant Universe or some Quantum Mechanics textbook while tripping balls on some seriously good acid.

[immoderate]

30. Gay? How'd they overlook Barney?

--IMM