Pepe Le Pew? Why not? Let's teach our kids that sexual assault is a hilarious behavior for them to emulate.

Let's teach our kids that sexual assault is a hilarious behavior for them to emulate. -- Patrick at December 1, 2013 2:22 AM

And there was no sexual assault before 1945 and no understanding this is a cartoon and not real life?

Sigh...beset again by the self-righteous.

And no child in the history of the world has ever imitated what they saw on a cartoon, right? Why, of course they didn't! How preposterous! Unheard of!

And even if they did decide to imitate something they saw on television, that's no problem at all! It's only common knowledge that every human being that has ever lived -- from the nanosecond they were born -- has always understood perfectly which behaviors shown on television would be humorous to imitate, and which behaviors are completely inappropriate, if not outright criminal!

Some days I worry about getting stampeded from all the high horses around here.

Lot of things went 'wrong' in this gov't action.

What would prevent this from happening here?

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/10486452/Child-taken-from-womb-by-social-services.html

Bob, it's an ugly story, but it's like the chemo kid... Sui generis. A bunch of people have to make size hyooge mistakes before you get a crisis like that. Trying to prepare for things like that makes everyone so jumpy that even worse outcomes will become common. (See also Amy's post today about the paucity of actual terrorist events.)

…But yes, we should always play the game we know best.

Twitter deceives: Was everyone but me aware of and in love with this actor?

Today's intricate media universe has its peculiarities... Momentary blips which guarantee that we're not all seeing the same, algorithmically-processed truths.

This tweet sent me to Google; and for the first few minutes, this web page was the first link, complete with the smiling photo. It's a distasteful irony, right?

It wasn't the Merrill Lynch PR department that took that link off the front list of Google results... After all, the page itself is still up as I link to it at 7:44AM. All it took to take people's attention away from that photo was the news stories appearing in the minutes & hours following the event itself.

I used to envy early 20th-century New Yorkers, who could have several pages of the Herald or the Times to choose from over the course of an afternoon, as editors scratched for new details to justify another run of the presses.

This is like that, but accelerated by Twitter and a hundred million smart phones.

Remember capitalism? It was great.

Let's say you were an emerging superpower, and then you decided to get all prissy and menstrual about your borders just when you were trying your absolute hardest to integrate your primitive, roiling masses into the freewheeling global marketplace.

And then lets say that the United States Secretary of State was, like, totally a prehistoric flying dorkasaures.

That would be like this.

I always thought the Pepe Le Pew cartoons were a take on feminism, not sexual assualt.

The skunk is uninterested in the cat, until the cat gets painted to look like a skunk.

At which point he goes overboard, and while the cat is CLEARLY uncomfortable, she never actually says the word no.

As I recall many of them ended with the cat looking like a cat again, and the skunk losing interest. But many of them ended with Pepe being painted to look like a cat, and the heretofore uninterested female is now the one going overboard, and even though Pepe quite clearly says the word No she still 'assaults' him

It plucks the strings or its parents get the hose again.

And no rations.

Then the little weasels grow up and steal our best stuff.

Here's a girl who can operate a camera with a violin bow.

"Was everyone but me aware of and in love with this actor?"

I did not know of this man either. I do know that James Dean was killed in his Porsche. Also, I am still in mourning over the death of the great actor (Mr. Crid does not concur) Steve McQueen. He was also known to have drove a Porsche.

"Some days I worry about getting stampeded from all the high horses around here."

As you should.

Don't kid yourself… The view from up there is spectacular.

"And even if they did decide to imitate something they saw on television, that's no problem at all!"

PMSing again?

According to your whine, innocent children are victimized daily by Tom and Jerry violence, as they beat each other with frying pans because it is hilarious.

How did you ever suppress the cry, "If it saves only one child!"?

Apparently, your generation cannot tell the difference between reality and fiction, and is mortified that somewhere, someone without functioning parents doesn't step in to prohibit the viewing of such abominations. Grand Theft Auto told you murder is fun, and Ice-T told you to "Fuck Tha Police", and you believed that. If the innocent never see a cartoon, it'll never occur to them to be anything but caring, nurturing citizens.

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Come to think of it, you DO imitate what you see on television. I bet you've repeated this: "If you like your health care plan, you can keep it."

I just love the way Radwaste talks over his own head. Some might be tempted to feel sorry for him, but I don't. He sets himself up for it.

> According to your whine, innocent children are
> victimized daily by Tom and Jerry

Yeah. There's a failure of abstraction happening here. It was just a joke… One so over-the-top that even children, inherently defenseless themselves, could enjoy seeing an oblivious, clumsy, pompous guy pressing onward. It takes twenty years to learn conversational irony, but children can study it before they know their 'rithmetic… If they're observant. Some, we see, are not.

> I bet you've repeated this: "If you like
> your health care…

The best joke from last week about Obama's Iran fumbling.

Amy-love, saw this and immediately thought of you.

Sometimes science and industry do things we'd not have thought possible.

They guy's just a pope, y'know? I'm not even supposed to admire him. But this new guy's had a good moment or two.

"I'm not even supposed to admire him."

He even put a stop to my age old line that Christians are starving and the Pope sleeps in silk sheets.

Well, Patrick, as far as I can remember, I never shat my pants and then hit on some young girl after watching a Pepe Le Pew cartoon. I know that's anecdotal, but there you have it.

In the meantime, TSA Agents Caught Trafficking 11 Pounds Of Cocaine

"I never shat my pants and then hit on some young girl"

Good plan.

Yep. PMSing.

Some days I worry about getting stampeded from all the high horses around here. ~ Patrick

In that case, just stay on yours.