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Been to see Shrek this
Been to see Shrek this evening - *and* I've written a review. So that's it - three new Opinion pages in one week - what are the chances of me now sticking to at least one a week, as per the schedule?
Been to see Shrek this evening - *and* I've written a review. So that's it - three new Opinion pages in one week - what are the chances of me now sticking to at least one a week, as per the schedule?
June 21st, 2004 - 15:09
And Shrek 2 on its way..
goodie goodie..
however.
if you want something that gives even more entertainment value.
read what the “traditional values coalition” has to say about it..
I quote from a friend.
”
Something called the Traditional Values Coalition has issued a parental
advisory about “Shrek 2,” claiming the movie furthers what it calls “the
transgender agenda,” an “effort to deconstruct the biological reality of
male and female.”
And here you thought it was just a nice, little cartoon.
The coalition’s advisory says, “Parents who are thinking about taking their
children to see ‘Shrek 2,’ may wish to consider the following: The movie
features a male-to-female transgender (in transition) as an evil bartender.
The character has five o’clock shadow, wears a dress and has female breasts.
It is clear that he is a she-male. His voice is that of talk show host Larry
King.”
Larry King?
Is the Traditional Values Coalition suggesting that Larry King has something
to do with “the transgender agenda,” whatever that is? Does Larry King
promote sex change surgery? Was Larry King once a woman? (If he had been,
you can’t blame him for having a sex-change operation. He’d have been one
nasty looking woman.)
The bartender is only the beginning. The warning continues: “During a dance
scene at the end of the movie, this transgendered man expresses sexual
desire for Prince Charming, jumps on him, and both tumble to the floor.”
Prince Charming in the clutches of Larry King?
And then, the warning says, “In another scene in the movie, Shrek and Donkey
need to be rescued from a dungeon where they are chained against the wall.”
An ogre and a donkey chained to a wall? Doesn’t U.S. Sen. Rick Santorum,
R-Man-on-Dog, have dreams like that?
The warning continues: “The rescue is conducted by Pinocchio who is asked to
lie so his nose will grow long enough for one of the smaller cartoon
characters to use it as a bridge to reach Shrek and Donkey. Donkey
encourages him to lie about something and suggests he lie about wearing
women’s underwear. When he denies wearing women’s underwear, his nose begins
to grow.”
The conclusion: Pinocchio is a transvestite.
There’s even more cross-dressing. The warning says, “An earlier scene in the
movie features a wolf dressed in grandma’s clothing and reading a book when
Prince Charming encounters him. Later, one of the characters refers to the
wolf’s gender confusion.”
A transvestite wolf?
This has to be some kind of joke. I mean, Larry King?
So I called Frank York, the editorial director for the Traditional Values
Coalition, and asked him: “Are you serious?”
“Yes,” he said. “Yes, I am.”
He said, “What they showed in the film was supposed to be humorous, but if
you look at the transgender agenda … there are more serious things going
on here.”
Like men dressed as women using women’s bathrooms, he said.
And other stuff like that.
York discussed the “transgender agenda” at length and I’m still not sure
what he meant. He did say something about two male-to-female transgender
people who tried to get married in Kansas. I must have been out getting
popcorn during that scene.
He also suggested that I do a Web search for “she males.” He said, “You’ll
see things that’ll make your hair curl.”
I told him I didn’t think my bosses would appreciate me checking out
she-male sites here in the office.
He’s deadly serious. He doesn’t think there’s anything humorous at all about
a bartender with a five o’clock shadow, wearing a dress, with breasts and
the voice of Larry King.
By the way, what’s Larry King have to do with it?
“That’s just a detail I put in there,” he said.
So Larry King doesn’t have anything to do with this?
“No, not at all,” he said.
I wanted to ask him about the whole interspecies marriage thing, you know,
Shrek being an ogre and the princess being, well, a princess who became an
ogre. (Or maybe she was an ogre and became a princess. I don’t know.)
Anyway, he talked about the whole transsexual agenda and how it wants to
take over the world and stuff like that. He clearly spends a lot of time
thinking about transsexuals, not that there’s anything wrong with that.
Meanwhile, I was praying to the telephone gods to strike the phone line
dead.
Finally, he said, “I know you probably think I’m insane.”
No, no, no, no.
Probably?
”
…………………………………………….
Pinnochio..
A transvestite..!!
I love it.
For the full sp..
http://www.traditionalvalues.org/pdf_files/TVCSpecialRptTransgenders1234.PDF
which also has Jennifer Saunders down as “openly homosexual actress”..
ooh..
and Prince Charming down as “effeminate”
Pete
June 29th, 2004 - 09:30
Went to see it on Sat..
Shrek 2 that is..on big big screen..
Hee Hee Hee..
loved it..still laughing…
A gender confused wolf…TG barmaid..and yes..Pinnochio does wear Ladies underwear.
)))
July 1st, 2004 - 13:16
Hm. The ugly stepsister was voiced by Jonathon Ross in the advance preview I saw at FACT in Liverpool on Sunday. Interesting.
July 11th, 2004 - 14:53
I think they meaned exactly that the Wolf, Ugly stepsister and Pinoccio had problems with their sexual orientation. And this i s a joke, of course. But they meaned it. Look in the last moments of Shrek 1, in the “Happy End” episode, when everybody had found a mate and so on, and there is a scene with the same wolf embracing one of the knights.