# 6-year-old traumatized by Barney the dinosaur's penis **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 27, 2006, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/6-year-old-traumatized-by-barney-the-dinosaurs-penis/370467 "2006-08-27T23:31:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2006, 4:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/6-year-old-traumatized-by-barney-the-dinosaurs-penis/370467/21 "2006-08-28T04:28:33Z")
[QUOTE=Little Nemo] Of course, if he’d asked me for advice, I’d have tried reason, “Jeez, man, if you’re this upset because your six year old daughter saw a penis, how are you going to react in ten years when she’s putting them in her mouth?” [/QUOTE] What makes you think she’s going to wait _that_ long? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![picunurse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7bcc69/32.png) [@picunurse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/picunurse)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2006, 4:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/6-year-old-traumatized-by-barney-the-dinosaurs-penis/370467/22 "2006-08-28T04:39:14Z")
How about the fact the Fallbrook & Bonsall are in Southern California, just a few miles from San Diego. It’s amazing how quickly one can fall off the edge of the earth ---
**Author:** ![Q.E.D](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/51bf81/32.png) [@Q.E.D](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.E.D)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2006, 4:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/6-year-old-traumatized-by-barney-the-dinosaurs-penis/370467/23 "2006-08-28T04:43:21Z")
[QUOTE=MsRobyn] If viewing the non-existent genitalia of a fictional character is enough to traumatize that girl, I don’t want to be her husband on her wedding night. [/QUOTE] I think it’s abundantly clear from the article that the ONLY person who was “traumatized” by this incident is the batshit insane father. The kid’s just repeating a novel turn of phrase, as kids are wont to do, probably unaware of what it really means. ---
**Author:** ![danceswithcats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9e8a1a/32.png) [@danceswithcats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/danceswithcats)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2006, 4:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/6-year-old-traumatized-by-barney-the-dinosaurs-penis/370467/24 "2006-08-28T04:42:46Z")
\*I love you, you love me, Barney showed me his pee-pee…\* :eek: 😛 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2006, 4:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/6-year-old-traumatized-by-barney-the-dinosaurs-penis/370467/25 "2006-08-28T04:51:21Z")
[QUOTE=MsRobyn] If viewing the non-existent genitalia of a fictional character is enough to traumatize that girl, I don’t want to be her husband on her wedding night. The sight of an actual penis would really pop her cork. [/QUOTE] She will no doubt be vastly disappointed. There’s no way anyone could compete with a T. rex whanger, especially a purple one. ---
**Author:** ![samclem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a9a28c/32.png) [@samclem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samclem)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2006, 4:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/6-year-old-traumatized-by-barney-the-dinosaurs-penis/370467/26 "2006-08-28T04:57:19Z")
[QUOTE=Colibri] She will no doubt be vastly disappointed. There’s no way anyone could compete with a T. rex whanger, especially a purple one. [/QUOTE] It’s all in the grip. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Cyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a88e4f/32.png) [@Cyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cyn)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2006, 4:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/6-year-old-traumatized-by-barney-the-dinosaurs-penis/370467/27 "2006-08-28T04:57:40Z")
At that age, I was running madly around our front yard yelling “Pregnancy!” because it make my mom look funny. Little did I know it was prophetic… Penis! ---
**Author:** ![Kythereia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e8c25b/32.png) [@Kythereia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kythereia)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2006, 5:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/6-year-old-traumatized-by-barney-the-dinosaurs-penis/370467/28 "2006-08-28T05:10:22Z")
_will not make the ensuing joke_ I agree with **Ana** ; the kid’s got to be milking this for all she’s worth. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![matt\_mcl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@matt\_mcl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/matt_mcl)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2006, 5:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/6-year-old-traumatized-by-barney-the-dinosaurs-penis/370467/29 "2006-08-28T05:41:44Z")
What bewilders me is how this fellow insists on writing “penis” with all asterisks, as though it were a vulgar word. It’s the Latin anatomical term! How does he refer to it? His special no-no naughty gentleman area? ---
**Author:** ![Cluricaun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/bb73d2/32.png) [@Cluricaun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cluricaun)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2006, 5:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/6-year-old-traumatized-by-barney-the-dinosaurs-penis/370467/30 "2006-08-28T05:46:47Z")
Jay-sus. Someone does need to call child protective services as soon as possible. That any father would be flipping out over his daughters mention of the word “Penis” makes me think that this guy, penises, and his daughter should never be in the same room together. His reaction seems like one of those poor overreactions that bad liars come up with when they’re really just dying of guilt. That said, I like how they wrote it "P_ **S", as if penis is some kind of terrible curse word. The one I really feel bad for is this dudes P** _\*R. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2006, 5:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/6-year-old-traumatized-by-barney-the-dinosaurs-penis/370467/31 "2006-08-28T05:48:42Z")
How’s this guy going to react if his daughter grows up to be a lesbian? Admittedly, he won’t have to worry about her touching someone’s penis if that happens. ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2006, 6:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/6-year-old-traumatized-by-barney-the-dinosaurs-penis/370467/32 "2006-08-28T06:40:21Z")
[QUOTE=Squink] Who taught the kid to read the word ‘p\*\*\*s’, and what it means? IIRC, Dick and Jane from ‘Friendly Village’ never said “See Spot’s Penis.” What are Kindergartners/1st graders using as readers these days that they know such ‘horrid’ words? [/QUOTE] Well, at age 6 I was about 2/3 along the dictionary. The kindergarten teacher brought several newspapers every day for me to read, so I’d stay off her hair. Some people grow to be nerds; in my case it’s genetic. I absolutely agree with the people who say that she keeps saying p_ **s because it Makes Daddy Jump. Someone should teach her f** k and c_\*t and run a comparative study on Daddy’s Jump Height. How does one pronounce the asterisks, anyway? ---
**Author:** ![picunurse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7bcc69/32.png) [@picunurse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/picunurse)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2006, 9:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/6-year-old-traumatized-by-barney-the-dinosaurs-penis/370467/33 "2006-08-28T09:29:53Z")
When my son was 3 or 4, he loved the song _I’m your Venus_. Unfortunately, he was certain they were saying penis, so, anytime the song came on the radio in the car, the neighborhood heard my son proclaiming his penishood. I ignored it, and he finally stopped. ---
**Author:** ![Lynn\_Bodoni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e47c2d/32.png) [@Lynn\_Bodoni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lynn_Bodoni)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2006, 10:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/6-year-old-traumatized-by-barney-the-dinosaurs-penis/370467/34 "2006-08-28T10:41:38Z")
My husband had to go to an Air Force training session when our daughter was a little over a year old, and I couldn’t go with him, so my daughter and I went to live with my parents for a while. My father is a sucker for little girls, and he would play with my daughter, read to her, and try to teach her new words and phrases. I can still hear him say “Say GODDAMMIT, Lisa. Say GODDAMMIT!” My mother and I were trying to stifle our giggles, but we did eventually get him to stop…he acknowledged that she’d probably pick up that particular phrase soon enough anyway. At the age of 27, she doesn’t swear at all now. ---
**Author:** ![What\_s\_That\_Smell](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/3bc359/32.png) [@What\_s\_That\_Smell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_s_That_Smell)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2006, 11:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/6-year-old-traumatized-by-barney-the-dinosaurs-penis/370467/35 "2006-08-28T11:03:15Z")
[Heh heh heh. Does she look like this?](http://img228.imageshack.us/img228/1792/477213869m2mfel6.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![indecisive1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/41988e/32.png) [@indecisive1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/indecisive1)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2006, 12:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/6-year-old-traumatized-by-barney-the-dinosaurs-penis/370467/36 "2006-08-28T12:02:11Z")
[QUOTE=Colibri] Any Beer Spins? Pansy Beer Sin? Sans Beery Nip? Beery Spa Inns? Pa’s Beery Inns? [/QUOTE] After some thought, I have decided that the word penis started out as pies. My reasoning is that the rearragement of letters needed to be quick. Is there a brand name Barnney’s? Or maybe in was _something_ 'n pies? Maybe some of the letters where thrown out? granney’s Pies? with the g turned around to look like a g? Yes! Mystery solved! ---
**Author:** ![indecisive1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/41988e/32.png) [@indecisive1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/indecisive1)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2006, 12:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/6-year-old-traumatized-by-barney-the-dinosaurs-penis/370467/37 "2006-08-28T12:04:54Z")
[QUOTE=indecisive1] After some thought, I have decided that the word penis started out as pies. My reasoning is that the rearragement of letters needed to be quick. Is there a brand name Barnney’s? Or maybe in was _something_ 'n pies? Maybe some of the letters where thrown out? granney’s Pies? with the g turned around to look like a g? Yes! Mystery solved! [/QUOTE] (g turned to look like b) ---
**Author:** ![interface2x](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c0e974/32.png) [@interface2x](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/interface2x)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2006, 12:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/6-year-old-traumatized-by-barney-the-dinosaurs-penis/370467/38 "2006-08-28T12:57:33Z")
Why do I imagine it sounded something like this…? > [@](#): > > **Ned** : (Breathless) Reverend…emergency! I… it’s the Simpson kids… eedily… I, uh, baptism… oodily… uh… doodily doodily! > **Reverend Lovejoy** : Ned…have you thought about one of the other major religions? They’re all pretty much the same. ---
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2006, 12:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/6-year-old-traumatized-by-barney-the-dinosaurs-penis/370467/39 "2006-08-28T12:58:56Z")
Huh. I read that, and it really reads to me like one of the pranksters decided to heighten the prank by writing an outraged-father letter to the local paper. It’s just too over-the-top: “emergency call,” “hoodlums,” “shaken the bedrock of our family” (for a daughter to mention a dinosaur’s penis). Maybe it’s real, but I think it’s the pranksters still having fun. Daniel ---
**Author:** ![Lord\_Il\_Palazzo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Lord\_Il\_Palazzo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lord_Il_Palazzo)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2006, 1:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/6-year-old-traumatized-by-barney-the-dinosaurs-penis/370467/40 "2006-08-28T13:25:13Z")
This is obviously a family built on very poor bedrock if a 6-year-old girl seeing the word p_**s is enough to “shak[e] the bedrock of [their] family.” This kid is in for a very troubled life if the mere word p**_s is enough to traumatize her. Presumably, the terrible day will come when she encounters a p_**s in person and her fragile little mind is rent asunder by the sheer horror of it. (That is, unless her father is sensible and locks her in the basement for the rest of her life to protect her from the real world and all the hoodlums and p**_ses that infest it.) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/6-year-old-traumatized-by-barney-the-dinosaurs-penis/370467.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/6-year-old-traumatized-by-barney-the-dinosaurs-penis/370467.md?page=3)