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Pepe Le Pew did Push the Envelop, even for the time period.
:50 sec mark on is not Ok, Very, Very Funny, but definitely not ok.There are some episodes that are way worst than this one.
Sorry but could you explain your thoughts? I don't understand what's funny but not ok about a misquote from a Tennyson poem?
Also pointing out that back in the day 'making love' most certainly did not mean sexual intercourse, it basically meant 'courting'.
That is the entire point of Pepe LePew. And Wylie Coyote. And Yosemite Sam. And Johnny Bravo. And Beavis and Butthead. The behavior is not okay. That is the entire basis of why it is funny.
Sorry but could you explain your thoughts? I don't understand what's funny but not ok about a misquote from a Tennyson poem?
Also pointing out that back in the day 'making love' most certainly did not mean sexual intercourse, it basically meant 'courting'.
As a woman, I watch the Pepe Le Pew cartoon, and see a fake cartoon cat in distress, trying to get away, and Pepe continuing to pursue her and calling her a "flirt" as she looks miserable. It hits close to home (not just for me, for a lot of women who've put up with a lot of crap) and it's not really funny. It's uncomfortable to watch.
As a woman, I watch the Pepe Le Pew cartoon, and see a fake cartoon cat in distress, trying to get away, and Pepe continuing to pursue her and calling her a "flirt" as she looks miserable. It hits close to home (not just for me, for a lot of women who've put up with a lot of crap) and it's not really funny.
As a woman? As a woman I see a situation that sometimes reflects real life, in a cartoonish way to be sure, but we all know that there are situations and people like this whether we want/approve of them or not. I'm all for putting a content warning if that's what's necessary, but trying to whitewash things away doesn't sit well with me.
"They" didn't come for Dr. Seuss or Looney Tunes. The companies that owned the rights to this content made the decision themselves to withdraw or adjust the distribution of their own materials, which is their right to do.
Allowing racist or sexist content that no longer fits our societal mores to be newly published and available without comment is not where responsible companies want to be.
I'm goint to disagree with you here.
I don't believe in censoring our culture. Should we censor our museums? Censor our history? I guess the companies who own the material have that legal right. I'm not sure they have that moral right.
Sorry, but I don't believe in book burners, either real or virtual.
I knew they would get around to Pepe someday, being French has protected him for many decades, the left loves France very much so they looked the other way, but Pepe kept grabbing those poor felines. Even after counseling with Sexual Harassment Panda, he never seems to learn. Maybe they could make some new ones where Pepe gets raped in prison, because he loses a class action lawsuit initiated by all the cat ladies he assaulted.
French cartoon characters on American TV back in those days were never cast in a favorable light. They were often Bluto lumberjack roughneck types, or such in the case of Savoir-Faire, a thieving mouse who spends his life on the run from the long paw of the law, Klondike Kat. Pepe demonstrates how the French cannot control themselves sexually. I'm surprised they didn't whack Pepe before they wasted Speedy Gonzales, whom had a lot of good qualities. I think Slow Poke brought him down.
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