Looney Tunes: Cartoon skunk Pepe Le Pew contributed to ‘RAPE CULTURE’, says New York Times columnist

[Annandale_Man]

Originally Posted by Mark S.

Here is the thing that so many of the content/morality police (on both Left and Right) don't seem to understand: Comedy is often about bad behavior. That's why it's funny.

We are supposed to watch the Stooges or Beavis & Butthead or Bart Simpson or Basil Fawlty or Yosemite Sam and laugh at their bad behavior. It's funny because it's absurd. It isn't a morality play. We aren't supposed to emulate their bad behavior.

As for Monsieur Pepe LePew: Did he ever win? Not that I remember. He always got his comeuppance in the end. Because he was behaving badly. How is that bad? "He is encouraging rape culture!" No. He really isn't. The cartoons are making fun of aggressive misogyny, not affirming it.

Now, Pepe may not be your type of comedy. That's fine. I can't stand Benny Hill or Renn & Stimpy. I just don't find them funny. But I am not going to demand that no one else be able to watch it. Knock yourself out.

Pepe LePew was created after the troops who returned from France after WW2 recollected to their friends and family that French people don't bath very often. It has nothing to do with rape culture.

[danielsa1775]

You could easily argue is discouages it as well. Given that he gets beaten up at the end of every segment.

[Sundaydrive00]

Originally Posted by Annandale_Man

Making fun of characters of a different race is not racist. Are pollack or blond jokes racist???

What race are blondes?

... Or fish?

[Dwatted Wabbit]

Originally Posted by DubbleT

Tom and Jerry is violent, so is Sylvester and Tweety, the Roadrunner and the Coyote, Ralph the Sheepdog, and pretty much any cartoon ever made that has a good guy and a bad guy. I can't understand wanting to sanitize every single aspect of life to the point where we simply pretend that bad things never happen, they don't exist. I honestly feel like that's worse for children than it is to expose them to make believe cartoon violence or scary fairy tales.

"Sanitizing" is just their cover story for destroying all things Americana, piece by piece. If these people really believed this baloney they spew, then they're rabidly paranoid histrionic borderline anti-social personality disorders. One or more of the above.

And many undoubtedly are. The water-carriers, mostly, I'd guess.

But the planners just pick out ANYTHING and trash it. Who in their right mind would follow the wishes of people so paranoid and histrionic and borderliney and...

The media--no longer actually NBC CBS ABC but they're functionally Pravda and Izvestia--hype every ridiculous childish paranoid hysterical bloviation that these red revolutionaries spew.
Only a fool would listen, much less believe.

[Natural510]

Two words....Miss Piggy.

[phetaroi]

Originally Posted by Annandale_Man

Making fun of characters of a different race is not racist. Are pollack or blond jokes racist???

You need to rethink that post.