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NYT columnist Charles Blow and his critics are trading rhetorical blows after the writer made Looney Tunes character Pepe Le Pew the latest target of the cancel mob, arguing that the skunk "normalized rape culture."
"Right-wing blogs are mad because I said Pepe Le Pew added to rape culture," Blow wrote on Saturday, tweeting a scene from the Warner Bros. classic cartoon series. "Let's see, he grabs/kisses a girl/stranger repeatedly, without consent and against her will. She struggles mightily to get away from him, but he won't release her. He locks a door to prevent her from escaping."
I think Charles Blow might not like Johnny Bravo either.
This is what's wrong with America. To think that time is being used for things like what is described in the OP. People need to realize they have limited time on this Earth and they need to use it for something important rather than continually doing idiotic things to produce more "victim-minded" people.
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.
First they came for Dr. Seuss. Then they came for Looney Tunes... Enough already !
"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.
"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 like author Neil Gaiman's suggestion that whenever you see the term "politically correct" replace it with "treating others with respect." Can you go too far by treating others with respect? Or by looking at issues from the perspective of people who aren't like you?
I like author Neil Gaiman's suggestion that whenever you see the term "politically correct" replace it with "treating others with respect." Can you go too far by treating others with respect? Or by looking at issues from the perspective of people who aren't like you?
Was changing Mr. Potato Head to Potato Head treating potatoes with any more respect than before?
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Enough already ! 
