Penguins, Gays, and Stupid Fucking People
Apparently, there is a book called And Tango Makes Three. It is a children's book that retells the true story of a penguin egg that was "adopted" by two adult male penguins. According to the reviews at Amazon, it's for kids in pre-school through the third grade. It's illustrated and features cute drawings of a fuzzy little baby penguin and his two adoptive parents. It's cute and heartwarming and wholesome, right?
Not according to this article. Apparently, at least two incredibly stupid, idiotic and just plain myopic parents have complained about the book being in the children's section because of "homosexual undertones." Homosexual undertones? What the fuck?
Look, if you want to be a homophobe, that's your decision. You can go right ahead and be a bigot, you have that right. Fuck, if you want to teach your kids to be bigots, i'll even grant you that right. If you don't want your kid being raised by a homosexual couple, again, you have that right. Nevermind that straight couples produce most gay children and that children raised by gay couples don't seem to be gay more often than other children. Whatever. Like i've said a bunch of times, people have the right to be willfully ignorant. If you don't want your kids to read books about how great it is to be gay, how great it is to have gay parents, etc., etc., you're the parent, you have a right to decide what your kid does and doesn't read. Nevermind that it's stupid to think that your kid will become gay because he thinks it's "ok," or even "cool." Such fears are clearly retarded. Don't believe me? Try telling your straight 14-year-old that it's "ok" and "cool" to be gay and see if he starts taking it up the ass from Tommy down the street.
So now let's take a hypothetical where you've got books that "glorify" the "gay lifestyle" in the children's section of a public library. Some stupid parents would get all frazzled and complain and shit. Whatever, big deal.
But that's not what we've got here. Here, we've got the cute story of two penguins who incubate an egg. I haven't read the book, so i can't say for certain, but i highly doubt that there are scenes in the book where the male penguins make out. Or where the one penguin bends the other penguin over and gives him some male penguin love. So what could possibly be objectionable about this true story? Nothing, unless you're a fucking idiot who thinks that your child will succumb to the temptation of gayness if you remove your watchful eye for even one second. And if that's what you're worried about, you need help. Seriously. I wonder how these people would react if they found out that dolphins, as well as several other species, regularly engage in actual homosexual sex. They'd probably start a petition asking TV networks to stop playing reruns of Flipper. Fuck, i hate stupid people.
None of this is to say, however, that the library is blameless. If i ran a public library and one of these stupid parents came in to complain about the cute penguin book, i would take them to the part of the library where we kept The Story of O, tell them i'm not getting rid of it, either, say "fuck you" and walk away.
Moral of the story: everyone in that article is an idiot.
Not according to this article. Apparently, at least two incredibly stupid, idiotic and just plain myopic parents have complained about the book being in the children's section because of "homosexual undertones." Homosexual undertones? What the fuck?
Look, if you want to be a homophobe, that's your decision. You can go right ahead and be a bigot, you have that right. Fuck, if you want to teach your kids to be bigots, i'll even grant you that right. If you don't want your kid being raised by a homosexual couple, again, you have that right. Nevermind that straight couples produce most gay children and that children raised by gay couples don't seem to be gay more often than other children. Whatever. Like i've said a bunch of times, people have the right to be willfully ignorant. If you don't want your kids to read books about how great it is to be gay, how great it is to have gay parents, etc., etc., you're the parent, you have a right to decide what your kid does and doesn't read. Nevermind that it's stupid to think that your kid will become gay because he thinks it's "ok," or even "cool." Such fears are clearly retarded. Don't believe me? Try telling your straight 14-year-old that it's "ok" and "cool" to be gay and see if he starts taking it up the ass from Tommy down the street.
So now let's take a hypothetical where you've got books that "glorify" the "gay lifestyle" in the children's section of a public library. Some stupid parents would get all frazzled and complain and shit. Whatever, big deal.
But that's not what we've got here. Here, we've got the cute story of two penguins who incubate an egg. I haven't read the book, so i can't say for certain, but i highly doubt that there are scenes in the book where the male penguins make out. Or where the one penguin bends the other penguin over and gives him some male penguin love. So what could possibly be objectionable about this true story? Nothing, unless you're a fucking idiot who thinks that your child will succumb to the temptation of gayness if you remove your watchful eye for even one second. And if that's what you're worried about, you need help. Seriously. I wonder how these people would react if they found out that dolphins, as well as several other species, regularly engage in actual homosexual sex. They'd probably start a petition asking TV networks to stop playing reruns of Flipper. Fuck, i hate stupid people.
None of this is to say, however, that the library is blameless. If i ran a public library and one of these stupid parents came in to complain about the cute penguin book, i would take them to the part of the library where we kept The Story of O, tell them i'm not getting rid of it, either, say "fuck you" and walk away.
Moral of the story: everyone in that article is an idiot.
I beleive your comment on the penguin book is the Heath Ledger to the stupid bigoted parents' Jake Gillenhal. Brokeback style, which by the way, is a really good movie, that filled me with a desire to fish, ride horses, live a cowboy lifestyle, and go to Wyoming, but did not inspire me to engage in hot man on man action. But hey, I guesse I just didn't get the movie.
dude, why is it that every time you post on my blog, you have to refer to hot man on man action?
You're starting to get a reputation...
Thanks! That's exactly what i was going for.
Brilliant. I've heard great things about the penguin book. I must read this Youth and Revolt book though.
What I really wonder is if there was outrage about the crappy television series "My Two Dads."
I'm sure there was, but I was just too young to be aware of it. Young and impressionable. Hell, I may raise a kid or adopt some day because of that dumb show, or the penguin book, or Angelina Jolie.
you know what, dude? I bet there wasn't much fuss over My Two Dads because, back in the day, you just didn't talk about gay people. To talk about it, after all, is to acknowledge that it exists. Back in the day, i bet people were falling all over themselves not to even acknowledge that people were gay. Dirty little secret-type stuff.
This is an interesting empirical question. Much more interesting than insurance law and disproportionate forfeiture.