Values Dissonance/Western Animation: Difference between revisions

** For years (when they were still showing [[Looney Tunes]]), Cartoon Network wouldn't show any Speedy Gonzales cartoons, fearing a backlash from Hispanic viewers over the airing of "negative Mexican stereotypes". The network later relented when they received petitions signed by thousands of Hispanic people who saw Speedy as a positive role model; an intelligent, athletic hero who always comes to the rescue of his fellow Mexican mice, always gets the best of the "gringo<ref>Spanish slang for "foreigner", mostly Americans</ref> cat" and always gets the girl. There were other stereotypical Mexican mice, mind -- but of all the Mexican stereotype cartoons, there were none more heroic than Speedy.

** The [[Pepe Le Pew]] cartoons -- all 17 of them (15, if you discount "Odor of the Day" <ref>which was really just your average screwball Looney Tunes cartoon</ref> and the cameo appearance at the end of "Dog Pounded") teach [[Viewers are Morons|impressionable, screwed-up kids]] that masculine persistence in the face of manifest resistance, even outright revulsion, on the part of the female target, is a virtue worthy of reward <ref>Translation: It pays to be a stalker-cum-rapist, especially if you're charming and French, and [[Dave Chappelle]] was right about what he said about watching the Pepe cartoons at an older age on ''Killing 'Em Softly''</ref>. Doesn't help that Pepe's cartoons generally make clear that it's his smell and his enthusiasm that makes him repellant to women -- and it '''''really''''' doesn't help that there are three Pepe shorts (1949's "For Scentimental Reasons" -- ''which won an Oscar'', 1952's "Little Beau Pepe," and 1959's "Really Scent") that show that [[No Guy Wants to Be Chased|he freaks when his female target goes after him]]

** A straight example would be Snow White. In the original story she was ''seven'' when she was married, and in the Disney movie she can't be much older than 14.

* After two generations of increasingly extreme paranoia over the sexual exploitation of children, the song "If You Sit On My Lap Today" from the classic 1970 [[Christmas Special]] ''[[Santa Claus Is Comin to Town]]'' can sound positively creepy. If Kris were to walk into J. Random American Town today and make that offer, [[Paedo Hunt|he'd be dogpiled by tonfa-swinging cops and branded a pedophile before he could blink]].

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