Sponge- Bob Queer- Pants???

[Lilith]

Could it be? (http://www.cnn.com/2005/SHOWBIZ/TV/01/20/sponge.bob.reut/index.html)

[cherrypie7788]

This is the stupidest thing I've ever heard! I remember back when Harry Potter supposedly promoted witchcraft too :rolleyes2 Puh-lease people.



Then again, I always sorta wondered about his relationship with Patrick :D lol

[jseal]

Lilith,

If debates of this type are to occupy our time, the world must be in far better shape than some people would have us believe.

[Lilith]

Well it seems according to Mr. "strong-willed child" Dobson, gay cartoon characters are worthy of the scrutiny. This must be a prime example of why we need to have private school vouchers :rolleyes2

[jseal]

Lilith,

Mr. Dobson reminds me of the psychologist who criticized the Starkist (I think) Tuna advertisements, as it portrayed Charlie the Tuna attempting to commit suicide.

These people have too much time on their hands.

[PantyFanatic]

Remind me please. This IS 2005....................... right? :spin:

[PantyFanatic]

Heed enough psychologist for what you are REALLY thinking and enough fundamentalists on what you SHOULD be thinking and you WILL want to commit suicide.

[Lilith]

Lilith,

Mr. Dobson reminds me of the psychologist who criticized the Starkist (I think) Tuna advertisements, as it portrayed Charlie the Tuna attempting to commit suicide.

These people have too much time on their hands.
OMG I missed that!!! :rofl: :grin:

yep PF 2005!

[wyndhy]

"Their inclusion of the reference to 'sexual identity" within their 'tolerance pledge' is not only unnecessary, but it crosses a moral line," James Dobson, founder of Focus on the Family, said:whack:

[lakritze]

I did always wonder about Squidward though.

[imaginewithme]

Geesh, people always trying to make something bad out of stuff. GIVE IT A REST
I'm so sick of it........it's everywhere. People either wanna talk shit about ya, run their mouths, start shit or even like this.....its a freakin' cartoon, get a grip and worry about something worth while!

:rant:

[faerie_princess]

Its finally gotten to the point where our society has nothing better to do then accuse spongebob of being a homosexual. I can't believe that we have nothing else to talk about. How about the Tsunami (even tho i'm tired of haering about that too) or even the fact that we could have paid off our national debt with the money that was spent on Bush's innagural ball. WTFlying Monkey!

[Aqua]

Better go after Bugs next... you know how he dresses as a girl bunny sometimes. Or what about Fred 'Twinkle Toes' Flintstone? "You'll have a gay ol' time!'. And get after that Peanuts cartoon... I think Peppermint Patty and Marcie might be planning a coming out episode... :rolleyes2

[PantyFanatic]

...... How about the Tsunami (even tho i'm tired of haering about that too) ...
Everybody will be tired of hearing about this …………………… except the millions of humans who lost hundreds of thousand loved ones and everything they know as life.

All the more reason to pump up a bullshit curtain.
:cents:

[BIBI]

Am I the only person who has never seen Sponge Bob Square Pants?

[osuche]

Maybe he is SUPPOSED to be GAY...Aren't we trying to teach our kids tolerance?

[osuche]

Addendum: I just thought of a new reality show:

Queer Eye for the Square Pants Guy

:D

[jseal]

Am I the only person who has never seen Sponge Bob Square Pants?

BIBI,

Even though I remain certain that Mr. Dobson could more usefully labor in other fields, I must admit that I am defending a show I have not seen. :o

[PantyFanatic]

Am I the only person who has never seen Sponge Bob Square Pants?
LOL- I’m sure your grandson can show you when he’s on. ;)

Mine sure can. :hair:

[gekkogecko]

I was going to post a pissed-off, witty response, but you know...some things are just to asinine to bother with.

[Aqua]

Am I the only person who has never seen Sponge Bob Square Pants?
I saw about 60 seconds of an episode once... but I couldn't hear it. Does that count?

[BIBI]

LOL- I’m sure your grandson can show you when he’s on. ;)

Mine sure can. :hair:


Grandson doesn't like the show! :devilish:

[Scarecrow]

What kind of signal does Beauty and the Beast send?

[PantyFanatic]

Grandson doesn't like the show! :devilish:
Want to trade? :rolleyes2

[gekkogecko]

Oh, Bibi-I've never seen the show either.

[PantyFanatic]

Oh, Bibi-I've never seen the show either.
Mr. Dobson probably hasn't either. :rofl:


I find people like that normally have the most to say, what they know the least about.

[jseal]

Gentlefolk,

Here's a link to the SpongeBob SquarePants movie. Take a look for yourself. :)

http://www.nick.com/all_nick/movies/spongebob/

This isn’t the first time children’s TV has drawn the ire of Christian right wing. Remember Tinky Winky, the purple Teletubbie? That character was also claimed to be homosexual.

Be patient. This too will pass.

[Lilith]

Right but the complaint is that a short film (not a Sponge Bob movie), involving cartoon characters, that encourages people to respect sexual identity among other things, was distributed to schools.

[jseal]

Lilith,

“But wait! That’s not all!”

Dr. Dobson is not even criticizing SB SP!

http://family.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/family.cfg/php/enduser/std_adp.php?p_faqid=17669

He’s against the video not because of the contents of the video, but because the web site of the sponsor includes this incendiary proposition:

http://www.wearefamilyfoundation.org/tolerance_pledge.asp

It must be a marvelous thing to be intolerant of someone else’s pledge of tolerance.

[scotzoidman]

Damn, I was wondering why my moron alarm kept going off all day...

[Sharni]

Am I the only person who has never seen Sponge Bob Square Pants?
Lucky you!!

[osuche]

By calling it to light this video and its affiliation with this larger organization, we are attempting to do for parents what their busy lives often prevent them from doing themselves--connecting the dots.


Parents who don't have time to connect the dots....who likely don't prioritize their kids (with the exception of taking time to listen to alarmist propaganda).... Now THIS is an issue worth debating!!!!

[jseal]

...who likely don't prioritize their kids... Now THIS is an issue worth debating!!!!

osuche,

Yes’m, I’ll agree with you there. If, however, that is indeed their concern, then they should raise that issue, rather than fulminating about a cartoon character.

:)

[LixyChick]

But...it's ok for the President to sit next to Sir Elton John at a gala?????? Even the word "gala" should be banned!

I don't get it! Even if...and I mean IF...Sponge Bob is gay...how would children know unless we ban him and make a spectacle of him and make him out as BAD, BAD, BAD? And...who the fuck are these homophobes who scrutinze these cartoons for us? What's that say about them?

It's the same thing as what they did to Pee Wee Herman (Paul Reubans (sp?). Kids wouldn't have known who Paul Reubans was in relation to Pee Wee...or what wanking was...or that some idiotic group considered it wrong to be in a XXX theatre, alone in the dark, and rubbing one out...unless it was splashed all over the media (and it was) and the children were made to realize the correlation.

Why don't we just plaster billboards all over the country (world), specifically showing what is considered wrong and dirty!

Example:

:x: GOOD...unless it is a man and man or woman and woman...then that is BAD!

:line: GOOD...unless it is an all male review and the men are dressed as women...then it is BAD!

:corn: Good...unless the man next to you in the theatre has his dick stuck through the bottom of the cup and you grab a handful and he cums on your corn...then it is BAD!

:lickme: GOOD...if it is on the label of a popsicle...but if it's spoken aloud in the privacy of anyone's bedroom it is BAD! Especially if it's between two women!

:baa: Good...if used for clothing...but BAAAAAAD if used as a sex object!



OMG! How long are we gonna have to take this shit? I know...I know...4 more years, right? Arrggggggggggg! The worst part of that is...by then the seed will be sown and those who remain will "have the power"...and they'll have knocked the progression of the logic-minded people back a century or twelve! Oh.....next we'll have men batting us in the head with a club and dragging us to their caves!!!!!!!

Where's the end of the planet? I wanna get off!

[Lilith]

Where's the end of the planet? I wanna get off!

I don't know but the URL is www.pixies-place.com :p

[LixyChick]

I don't know but the URL is www.pixies-place.com :p
LMAOAPMP!

[jseal]

LixyChick,

I know that I’m a bit of a pessimist on this issue, but I suspect that prejudice, intolerance, and discourtesy will be with us always. All people of good will can do is to work to minimize these incivilities whenever possible, and to marginalize those who assert their “right” to brutalize others.

[BIBI]

I saw about 60 seconds of an episode once... but I couldn't hear it. Does that count?

Well Aqua, I don't know.

I think we should apply to the government for a grant to study this in more depth
and detail. Whatcha say we apply for $1,000,00.00 to start and go from there? ;)

All I know is that I am a Sponge Bob Square Pants virgin! :)
AND I plan to keep it that way LOL.

[BIBI]

Oh, Bibi-I've never seen the show either.

Well that makes two virgins and one we have to do study on! :)

[LixyChick]

LixyChick,

I know that I’m a bit of a pessimist on this issue, but I suspect that prejudice, intolerance, and discourtesy will be with us always. All people of good will can do is to work to minimize these incivilities whenever possible, and to marginalize those who assert their “right” to brutalize others.
In a country where the [moral] majority rules and the (now) majority are of like mind and think the rest of us are deviant and should be "put in our place and shown the PROPER way to conduct our lives"...I am pessimistic as well! *sigh* The judgements and consequences set forth and handed down by these people scare the shit out of me!

[PantyFanatic]

All ladies WILL pick up their burkha in the line on the left! :cool:

[osuche]

I live in the gay capital of the MidWest (LOL -- I know -- that's still not much of a recommendation for Columbus). Growing up, many of my close male friends were gay -- likely because they honestly *listened* to me, and didn't expend all of their energy trying to get into my pants. :p There is nothing more painful than watching someone you love come to the realization that they are gay, and have to explain it to their friends and family....I had one friend commit suicide because of his family's response.

As you get older, people become less overt about their prejudice....we were taught we can't outright wear white robes with cowls. I managed a couple of gay employees at my last company....one of whom was desperately deserving of promotion...who didn't have a snowball's chance in hell because *someone* had learned he was gay. He was NOT overt about it. But after 2 years of beating my head against the wall trying to get him promoted, he finally told me to give up. <sigh> I wrote him a really good recommendation when he finally left the company.

If we can find a way to teach little kids to accept others, and how painful it can be to be "different" than others...we can nip this damned intolerance in the bud. Then all we have to do is wait 40 years until the properly educated children grow up and take over the world....LOL...assuming they won't be brainwashed in the meantime.

:rant:

[LixyChick]

All ladies WILL pick up their burkha in the line on the left! :cool:
Burkha my ass! We're all gonna require body condoms!!!!!!

[PantyFanatic]

Burkha my ass! We're all gonna require body condoms!!!!!!
Unfortunately, that won’t keep them from trying to fuck with us. :(

[LixyChick]

I live in the gay capital of the MidWest (LOL -- I know -- that's still not much of a recommendation for Columbus). Growing up, many of my close male friends were gay -- likely because they honestly *listened* to me, and didn't expend all of their energy trying to get into my pants. :p There is nothing more painful than watching someone you love come to the realization that they are gay, and have to explain it to their friends and family....I had one friend commit suicide because of his family's response.

As you get older, people become less overt about their prejudice....we were taught we can't outright wear white robes with cowls. I managed a couple of gay employees at my last company....one of whom was desperately deserving of promotion...who didn't have a snowball's chance in hell because *someone* had learned he was gay. He was NOT overt about it. But after 2 years of beating my head against the wall trying to get him promoted, he finally told me to give up. <sigh> I wrote him a really good recommendation when he finally left the company.

If we can find a way to teach little kids to accept others, and how painful it can be to be "different" than others...we can nip this damned intolerance in the bud. Then all we have to do is wait 40 years until the properly educated children grow up and take over the world....LOL...assuming they won't be brainwashed in the meantime.

:rant:
In relating to jseal's response...I must say that "sheep are sheep...and they have little lambs". I cannot for the life of me figure a way to teach people tolerance and acceptance if it is ingrained in them from a wee age. It's nearly impossible to change one's thinking if it goes against what they were taught by those less progressive and open. I think fear is at the base of all of this ignorance...and how does one battle ingrained fear? I highly doubt that those affected even realize it is a fear instilled in them.

Oh...if only my mother could have shown the ignorant what she showed me! She opened my eyes to differance...and proved to me that we are what we are, and that being different isn't necessarily a bad thing...just different! In this method I learned not to fear other's, but to learn from them and to accept that I don't have to believe what they believe in order to fit in and go unnoticed. It is my difference that makes a mark on the time I spend in this world...and it is [their] difference that does the same and makes it all interesting and worth while.

Makes me wonder...if everyone was of the same mind, what would [they] have to judge, fear or complain about?

[campingboy]

A video was made and distributed to Schools. The school then has the option to show it or not. Your local school board will make that decision. This is the group of people that you voted for to govern your local schools. The saying “act local, think global” goes a long way here. Get involved in your local school, local boys and girls club and personally show the kids what tolerance is.

People like Mr. Dobson will always try and say something outrageous to grab attention. If it is not Mr. Sponge Bob Square Pants, it will be Bert and Ernie, or some other future cartoon.

One of my hopes for the internet age is one of more understanding of this world and those of us who live on it. My niece’s school has connected with 3 other school around the world. Each week they post something to the web page – photo’s, stories, research projects, local sayings, customs, they are even learning some words from each others language….. my niece is learning about another culture through the eyes of a peer (posts are translated for them so everyone is reading it in there own language).

Just my two cents worth. I’m now going to go and dig my car out of the snow drift.

[PantyFanatic]

.....One of my hopes for the internet age is one of more understanding of this world and those of us who live on it. ......
:thumb: :) :thumb:

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