The Big Picture: Boy's Own Adventure

chronobreak

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It is an issue of mental illness and degeneracy, and my two children will never see this show. Our country has a serious problem with gender digression, and I'm tired of it. It's a problem that needs to be cured, not celebrated.

Yes, I know some people are afflicted with feeling like the opposite gender. We should treat these people just like we treat everyone else, but at the same time we need to think about where we want our country to be in 50 years time, if we still want standards, decency, and morality for our children's children, and those of us for whom it concerns are going to keep fighting back against what we think is sending us down a very dangerous path.
 

piinyouri

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As a transgendered person, this is my reaction.


The animation is rather bad, seems to be done in the same style as Johnny Test.(I know it's flash, but flash is not inherently bad. Look at Venture Bros, it can be done very well.)

The comedy from what Ive seen seems.....wanting, even for a kids show.

That said, I certainly don't think it an outright bad thing, and overall it probably is good that there is something like this on TV for the kids who will identify with it.
Baby steps after all.
 

Shuu

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Oh Fox;D
Imagine if one day, something did actually "Destroy America!!". Fox news would be like "yeah! tha- we... yo...... what, really? Like... Really? Well... Cool?"
 

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I'm kinda confused? A cartoon that essentially uses the idea of a boy being unintentionally forced to dress like a girl to be a superhero as its main mocking gag is in some way pushing the LGBT agenda? really? By that logic Benny Hill and Milton Berle should be considered two of the gay communities greatest saints. (I'll concede that most of my gay friends can in fact quote Monty Python like scripture. But I think that is more of a nerd thing than a gay thing.) And how exactly do we fit Tyler Perry into all of this? What exactly is he pushing or corrupting? The messages get so conflicted?
 

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omicron1 said:
Aardvaarkman said:
omicron1 said:
Hey, Bob? Would it be possible for you not to alienate, insult, denigrate, and mock half your prospective audience - including me, who you are ostensibly defending, in your videos?
What exactly are you referring to?
Conservaphobic attacks of opportunity.
I mean, it's not like Bob's the only staff member who regularly attacks my worldview and beliefs, but he has a role which allows a certain amount of neutrality - should he choose to accept it. He does not. This rankles.
I gotta side with Bob on this one. If you're simply of the opinion that traditional gender roles are more important than the typically left crowd think they are, that's cool, and Bob wasn't talking about you. But if you're of the, as he rightly put it, "deranged" idea that anything looking to encourage acceptance of anyone who does not fit into those traditional gender roles is 'Destroying the moral fibre of America!' as many comentators have done in reaction to this new show, THEN he was talking about you, and it doesn't matter how sizable that demographic is, it's far less excusable for people like Bob, and I don't blame him.
 

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Fiairflair said:
I expect there is a very complicated historical answer to this question but... how can the United States be so tolerant in some places and so remarkably vile in others?
It's a big country, and the romanticism of introvert behavior (in the guise of "self-sufficiency") is kind of burned into our national psyche. It's very, VERY easy for us to withdraw into either our own cocoons or into small fractional groups where we only ever hear our own biases reflected back at us.
 

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Trishbot said:
It sounds like a Anime version of Tootsie. When actor Michael Dorsey (Dustin Hoffman) fails to close on yet another audition, he decides to dress up as a female character of his invention ? Dorothy Michaels. She immediately gets a soap opera role and the requisite drama ensues.

God Forbid Fox News learns of the Rocky Horror Picture Show, Victor Victoria, Ed Wood, Sylvia Scarlett and I Was A Male War Bride.
 

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I personally think Homosexual is nu-natural; mental sickness that is related to uncontrollable sexual desires, who ever have it needs love, acceptance, and LOTS OF PRAYERS/HEALINGS! No matter how tempting yuri anime looks, and how yaoi is hot to all girls on earth... I think sending kids the messages that Homosexual-ness is OK, is wrong... I know over population is a GREAT EXCUSE for such behavior... but I also think NORMAL marriage with no/adoption kids is better way...

(MAIN TOPIC:)

HOW EVER, this animation in particular... is more like "Mrs.Doubfire", "I MY ME strawberry egg", or "RAMA1/2", where sex-change/Cross dress is meant to be the gag, and it's not like the dud in the cartoon "likes" to be a girl... he wants to be super hero... that's all... I think it's funny, and fun cartoon... not super smart... but funny for a laugh or two... but NOT OFFENSIVE AT ALL....

Media needs to chill the F#*^% off... and start worrying about our economy...
 

Aardvaarkman

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omicron1 said:
Conservaphobic attacks of opportunity.
I mean, it's not like Bob's the only staff member who regularly attacks my worldview and beliefs, but he has a role which allows a certain amount of neutrality - should he choose to accept it. He does not. This rankles.
What makes you think conservatives are anywhere near half of Bob's audience? And why should his role be neutral? He's a critic and commentator - he's not a judge. he has no duty to be neutral.

In any case, it was hardly even an attack on conservatism. It was an attack on idiocy. Or do you think Fox News somehow accurately represents conservatives as a group? I don't quite understand what the worldview that's being attacked is - people who think that boys should never dress in "female" clothing? I think you'll find plenty of conservatives who cross-dress.

Instead of just reacting, why don;t you explain to us what the problem is with the cartoon, and why it goes against your beliefs?
 

Aardvaarkman

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chronobreak said:
It is an issue of mental illness and degeneracy, and my two children will never see this show. Our country has a serious problem with gender digression, and I'm tired of it. It's a problem that needs to be cured, not celebrated.

Yes, I know some people are afflicted with feeling like the opposite gender. We should treat these people just like we treat everyone else, but at the same time we need to think about where we want our country to be in 50 years time, if we still want standards, decency, and morality for our children's children, and those of us for whom it concerns are going to keep fighting back against what we think is sending us down a very dangerous path.
But the kid in the cartoon doesn't change gender. He just has stereotypically "female" clothing. Are you saying that gender is defined by something as superficial as clothing? that somebody is less of a man if they are wearing a dress? That seems like a fairly weak idea of masculinity to me.
 

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Dragonbums said:
Honestly, the Hub needs that attention even if it's controversy. No one watches that channel outside of MLP.
On that note however the show seems average.
It's the equivalent of those 90's live action shows where the male cast dresses up as a girl to get into a club or something. Or various skits where it's basically a bunch of men dressed as women having parody conversations about what women supposedly talk about in real life. Nickelodeon was notorious for that.
Yet I didn't hear the media complain.
So what's the difference here exactly?
The difference is those were brief individual skits played for laughs with little importance in the grand scheme of things, and this is the central premise of the show.
 

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Blue Ranger said:
John Funk said:
shadowmagus said:
I'm totally with you on the "Fox news is over-exaggerating about a cartoon" bit. Its a cartoon.

That said, you lost me at "Connected to men= good; independent=evil". Your white knight is showing.

Again.

Stop it.
You don't have to be a "white knight" to think that there are inherent problems with depictions of gender in our media, and it is not only wrong-headed but deeply insulting that you're using that as an excuse to dismiss it without thought.
There are problems on both sides. There ALSO seems to be this ridiculous notion these days that a woman is not allowed to be associated with men, or she can't be independent. She also apparently can't be in love with a man, or else she is being subservient to him. Then there is the dumb idea that a woman has to be a sassy little ***** to be considered a tough character. I find it kind of odd that Bob used Storm as his example. How does being apart of a group that also includes men make her less of a hero than the males? How does this stop her from being independent and tough in her own right? She works with men, but she isn't subservient to them.

People don't seem aware of the confusion this causes people. It happens both ways, whether people want to admit it or not.
You misunderstand the problem completely. The problem is not any one character, or indeed any one series. The problem is all the characters and all the series taken together reveal certain troublesome trends.

People aren't asking for every single woman to be a sassy independent character. People aren't even asking for every single woman to necessarily be a TOUGH character! They're asking for varied characters who are independent, codependent, rely on others for strength, cowardly, generous, selfish, anything - as long as they're interesting, well-rounded and we get *different types.* Is it a problem if a female villain is independent and a female hero works as a team? No, not at all; it's a problem if almost all the female heroes work as part of a team.
 

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chronobreak said:
It is an issue of mental illness and degeneracy, and my two children will never see this show. Our country has a serious problem with gender digression, and I'm tired of it. It's a problem that needs to be cured, not celebrated.

Yes, I know some people are afflicted with feeling like the opposite gender. We should treat these people just like we treat everyone else, but at the same time we need to think about where we want our country to be in 50 years time, if we still want standards, decency, and morality for our children's children, and those of us for whom it concerns are going to keep fighting back against what we think is sending us down a very dangerous path.
You're really not going to be happy in a half century. The rest of us are going to remember MLK's words that the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice.
 

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I don't know of anyone have posted it yet, so...


And i bet if one dig more, he can find even older things with same theme.
 

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I was waiting for the american tv idiots/politicians to get wind of this show and freak out last year, surprised it took so long. When it debut' here I watched a single episode, laughed and moved on, didn't feel a need to watch any more or care about its existence but I think its neat someone finally got the go ahead to do such a show for kids programming that doesn't make a huge deal about the mere concept of a boy dressed as a girl or whatever.

I mean really like bob said its the 21st century, the mere idea that someone has to be defined entirely by their gender and should only ever be or do or wear what said gender apparently is only "allowed" or "approved" to be is just silly. This is in the same ballpark as people saying girls shouldn't play video games, load of horsey poop.
 

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Forgive me, but isnt crossdressing a staple of american comedy? I cant thick of a single american produced children's cartoon that didnt do it, or deal with the ideals of homosexuality. Im sure by this point in time most of them have already been named in the thread, so i wont repeat them, but COME ON! We even have "inter-species erotica" in many a Disney movie, but no. Put a boy in a pink dress (like it hasnt been done a billion times in american cartoons) and everyone's jimmies are instantly rustled.
 

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jaymiechan said:
Trishbot said:
Meanwhile, non-comedy positive trans* characters? i think Wandering Son is about it?
Princess Jellyfish? It's a comedy, but the cross-dresser does so because he wants to, and is an overall positive character, plus he/she is the main love interest.

It's pretty hard to find anywhere though. As someone who identifies as transgendered it's always hard to hear something I've always wanted compared to the bad plot of comic book evil bad guys. It's like Fox news would like to convince the world that people wanting positive examples of transgender out there as Hydra.

There is also the Manga IS(Intersexed), but it's not so much about transgender issues, as intergender issues(which is a real thing.)