lol really

http://i.imgur.com/iWKad22.jpg

wow really overkill safety.

Yeah, The Independent over here ran this article too. xD

I loved the comment.... "This is very disturbing but can you imagine! The author was over 60 and cut his [Pooh's] testicles off with a razor blade because he had a problem with his identity."

wtf? xD

Sometimes I really have to wonder about people. There seems to be no limit to the things people will go after, and how stupid they can make themselves look.

why dont they just ban thier kids from looking at wild animals while they at it, as well actually do some research on how the character actually got created as well...

Back in the early '90s, some lawmakers here in my state of Pennsylvania tried to get a law passed to force farmers to either diaper their cattle, or keep them at least a few hundred feet from roads. They were afraid that kids in passing cars might see the utters or private parts and be traumatized! Of course, the law wasn't passed, but what sort of person actually tries to push for that sort of thing.

Next thing we know is they'll be passing laws forbidding kids from showering in the nude, so they can't see their own bodies. After all, seeing their private parts could scar them for life!

Say what??!! okay now as someone that grew up on a farm that is just absurd... i must be scared for like i guess... oh shit i had dogs throughout my childhood as well... *rolls eyes*

i dont even wanna know wht sorta person pushes shit like that.

The sad thing is that people like that often have loud voices when voting time comes around. I actually know people who think these sorts of extreme and paranoid ideas are good things to protect kids. Of course, none of those people actually have kids. I'd fear for their kid's sanity if they did!

if thats the case they would have to be locked indoors. pets would be banned.. i mean really.. its more than paranoid thinking, its way beyond that. hell... wild animals everything about learning about our world and life would have to be stoped... people like that need to be hauld away and hucked into the bush....

I think some people honestly forgot what it's like to grow up and learn. They think everything is harmful to children, yet they surely saw naked animal bits, and pantsless cartoon characters, as children themselves, and it didn't kill them. Then they go on a mission to protect children from something that isn't harmful and that no one else even notices. Next thing, they'll be calling for the closing of Disney and Build-a-Bear, since most of the characters are pantsless perversions that will convert our kids into hermaphrodites. And, if they sell pink clothes for boy character, kids who play with them could even turn into pedophiles! I can almost see FOX News going off on something crazy like that!

i think it comes down to that those peoplethat think that way are just afraid of their own thoughts...

Hehe, well FoxWolfie... same goes for a Sonic the Hedgehog plush toy, no visible sex organs... so, I dunno what children would do then.

Now, for a 'pooh', yeah he's a bear, but still, he should either be male or female, not an it :P

Did they not realize he's just a teddybear brought to life by a child's imagination?
They must not have ANY teddybears there!
Welp, those folks will be forever thought of as being entirely foolish for the rest of their days~

I think people like that are afraid of their own imagination, and they simply don't care that it isn't actually a problem for anyone but themselves. Who even thinks of stuff like kid's storybook characters being hermaphrodites, because they have no physical signs of a gender? It's pretty scary that people like that can even get into the position of power needed to make decisions and rules for others.

Of course, we have the city of Fort Lauderdale, Florida, where the mayor passed a law making it illegal to feed homeless people, (unless it's done inside), so the public doesn't have to see it! Hide the problem and it goes away! How on earth do people like that get in power?

to clarify i was under the impression that hermaphrodites poses both male and female parts... so showing no gender at all makes him that?... i dont quite get that..

You are correct. They said Pooh's lack of a visible sex makes him a hermaphrodite. That's part of why the people who decided to ban Pooh sound so ridiculous. Whatever they were thinking - you probably don't want to get that!

I think this is the problem. People who work in government are richer than ever before and more distant from the public than ever before too. I know it's not exactly the same, but we had a similar scenario here in the UK where a Labour MP... Someone from the party that's supposed to represent and support the working man... Posted a snarky, snotty tweet about a house she passed that had a working man's van and THREE England flags outside... God Forbid... She was saying how needless and tacky it seemed. Naturally, she was condemned by a stream of angry people in the comments and it's damaged the Labour Party's already damaged reputation even further here. Like you say... Pretend the poor don't exist or mock them like they're sub-human. They have no idea how the real world works. They're locked away in their ivory towers watching the world go by and get bored and think that a cartoon bear might corrupt young minds so they ban him as if they know better. It's all bonkers.

(This should have been tagged with your comment about the ban on feeding the homeless, but it's not linked it for some reason)

It appears linked to it here.

We all know how corrupt Pooh is. He once got himself stuck in Rabbit's hole after all! :)

xD

Thats why im fucked up!

I guess that make you a Poovert! :)