# Finding Nemo turning kids on to lesbianism **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [May 30, 2003, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finding-nemo-turning-kids-on-to-lesbianism/178599 "2003-05-30T18:50:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Doomtrain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/0ea827/32.png) [@Doomtrain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doomtrain)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2003, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finding-nemo-turning-kids-on-to-lesbianism/178599/81 "2003-05-31T19:50:55Z")
I get the feeling that Sinbad is already bad because it’s mythological and has scary creatures in it! Woo! Prepare your soul for doom! ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2003, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finding-nemo-turning-kids-on-to-lesbianism/178599/82 "2003-05-31T20:29:05Z")
> [@](#): > > _Originally posted by Larry Mudd_ > (Ani seems like an appropriate cite for the goldfish-have-no-memory urban legend in the context of this thread…) Sounds to me like Dory was a Poisson d’Or before a none-too-bright art department decided she needed to look more exotic Hmm. I’m no piscophile, but aren’t goldfish freshwater? Kind of awkward to have a freshwater fish in a movie largely set in the ocean. ---
**Author:** ![iampunha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/74df32/32.png) [@iampunha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iampunha)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2003, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finding-nemo-turning-kids-on-to-lesbianism/178599/83 "2003-05-31T21:01:53Z")
I think they pretty much set themselves up for awkwardness with having the fish talk, **Miller** 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2003, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finding-nemo-turning-kids-on-to-lesbianism/178599/84 "2003-05-31T21:02:59Z")
I’ll let the author of [_The Two-Thousand-Pound Goldfish_](http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0064408558/qid=1054415219/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/002-0688352-7208852?v=glance&s=books) field that sticky one: > [@](#): > > I used to read this to classes, and some scientific kid would say, “Mrs. Byars, goldfish can’t live in salt water.” And I’d say, “Listen, I’m the boss of this book, and if I want Bubbles to live in salt water, Bubbles will live in salt water.” I love being the boss of a book. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![asterion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/4da419/32.png) [@asterion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asterion)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2003, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finding-nemo-turning-kids-on-to-lesbianism/178599/85 "2003-05-31T21:04:40Z")
Can I toss in some only somewhat relevant _Simpsons_ quotes? Such as > [@](#): > > People don’t do that sort of thing with fish. and > [@](#): > > Follow me to the Springfield Aquarium. ---
**Author:** ![sickboy51](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@sickboy51](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sickboy51)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2003, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finding-nemo-turning-kids-on-to-lesbianism/178599/86 "2003-06-01T01:13:48Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Larry Mudd \* > [ > Awww, wookit the widdle iwwiterate bigot. How _cute_. > > :squish: > :wipe: \*\* Sorry, couldn´t understnad a single word in that sentence. ---
**Author:** ![Scylla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a5b964/32.png) [@Scylla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scylla)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2003, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finding-nemo-turning-kids-on-to-lesbianism/178599/87 "2003-06-01T03:08:26Z")
I took my daughter and saw it, today. Pretty damn good, even if I was in a sold out showing with a gazillion screaming kids. FWIW Ellen De Generes did an absolutely astoundingly good job. Her and Willem DaFoe’s voice acting stole the show, IMO. ---
**Author:** ![Satisfying\_Andy\_Licious](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/50afbb/32.png) [@Satisfying\_Andy\_Licious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Satisfying_Andy_Licious)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2003, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finding-nemo-turning-kids-on-to-lesbianism/178599/88 "2003-06-01T03:25:02Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by GMRyujin \* > \*\*Wait a minute! They say Jesus was a fisher of men, and all those Jesus people have fish on their car. If fish make you gay, then… > > Jesus was gay! \*\* I think Jesus was gay. All the scribes and pharisees were trying to nail him. ---
**Author:** ![Helen\_s\_Eidolon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/8edcca/32.png) [@Helen\_s\_Eidolon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Helen_s_Eidolon)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2003, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finding-nemo-turning-kids-on-to-lesbianism/178599/89 "2003-06-01T03:45:51Z")
So, um, nitpicky question: since when is Alan Cumming gay? His imdb biography has him listed as formerly married to a woman, and romantically linked to Saffron Burrows. ---
**Author:** ![Doomtrain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/0ea827/32.png) [@Doomtrain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doomtrain)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2003, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finding-nemo-turning-kids-on-to-lesbianism/178599/90 "2003-06-01T04:00:53Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Satisfying Andy Licious \* > \*\*I think Jesus was gay. All the scribes and pharisees were trying to nail him. \*\* I thought that was the Romans? ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2003, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finding-nemo-turning-kids-on-to-lesbianism/178599/91 "2003-06-01T04:17:04Z")
And the worst part of all this? We’re going to have to go through it all over again when the Christian Right finds out Albert Brooks is Jewish. ---
**Author:** ![Lisa-go-Blind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7c8e57/32.png) [@Lisa-go-Blind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lisa-go-Blind)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2003, 5:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finding-nemo-turning-kids-on-to-lesbianism/178599/92 "2003-06-01T05:06:06Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by LaurAnge \* > \*\*So, um, nitpicky question: since when is Alan Cumming gay? His imdb biography has him listed as formerly married to a woman, and romantically linked to Saffron Burrows. \*\* See [here](http://www.temenos.net/profiles/actors/) ---
**Author:** ![SparrowHawk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ac8455/32.png) [@SparrowHawk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SparrowHawk)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2003, 6:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finding-nemo-turning-kids-on-to-lesbianism/178599/93 "2003-06-01T06:39:04Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Larry Mudd \* > \*\*Sounds to me like Dory was a Poisson _d’Or_ before a none-too-bright art department decided she needed to look more exotic. :smack: \*\* Sounds to me like an art department doing its job, just like Degeneres did hers: brilliantly. The job, after all, is to create a particular character - a fish, whose sexual orientation has nothing whatever to do with the story. The art department’s job is to make the fish look good, and a gold fish next to an orange clown fish wouldn’t be nearly as good looking as the blue Dory. The actor’s job is to bring the character to life. And Degeneres did a fantastic job, arguably the best in the show. I mean, isn’t the point of the reviewer’s idiocy that her sexuality has nothing to do with how well she does her job? The actor represents the fish, not vice versa. We (the whole theater, in fact) were belly-laughing over the whale episode. It was hysterical. She does poignant well, too, and her timing’s impeccable. Oh, and the aquarium was a salt-water tank. It said so specifically when they read the copy off the new filter the dentist installed. ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2003, 11:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finding-nemo-turning-kids-on-to-lesbianism/178599/94 "2003-06-01T11:45:33Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by LaurAnge \* > \*\*So, um, nitpicky question: since when is Alan Cumming gay? His imdb biography has him listed as formerly married to a woman, and romantically linked to Saffron Burrows. \*\* With a name like that, he oughta be in porn films. Regardless of orientation! ---
**Author:** ![Priam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/77aa72/32.png) [@Priam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Priam)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2003, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finding-nemo-turning-kids-on-to-lesbianism/178599/95 "2003-06-01T14:18:54Z")
Alan Cumming self-defines himself as “pansexual” or “omnisexual”, and has french kissed an ape to prove it ;). ---
**Author:** ![Doomtrain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/0ea827/32.png) [@Doomtrain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doomtrain)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2003, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finding-nemo-turning-kids-on-to-lesbianism/178599/96 "2003-06-01T19:09:39Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Priam \* > \*\*Alan Cumming self-defines himself as “pansexual” or “omnisexual”, and has french kissed an ape to prove it ;). \*\* Let me be the first to say “Hot monkey sex!” Ha! Now let me be the first to run for the hills, dodging rotten tomatos… ---
**Author:** ![Freyr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/freyr/32/5763_2.png) [@Freyr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freyr)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2003, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finding-nemo-turning-kids-on-to-lesbianism/178599/97 "2003-06-01T19:14:35Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by jeevmon \* > \*\*So, apparently Disney and Pixar are catching some flak for casting Ellen DeGeneres in a voice role in the new film “Finding Nemo.” > > [Over 40 of Today's Popular Christian Blogs](http://www.crosswalk.com/news/weblogs/tperrault/?adate=5%2F14%2F2003) > > Because we all know that if a child hears a lesbian’s voice, he or she will want to be homosexual. :rolleyes: \*\* Well of course they will! Doesn’t everyone remember how, after Disney’s _Mulan_ was released all those kids wanted to be foul-mouthed standup comics? 😃 (for those of you who don’t get it, the voice of the small dragon in _Mulan_ was done by Eddie Murphy) ---
**Author:** ![Punoqllads](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/d2c977/32.png) [@Punoqllads](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Punoqllads)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2003, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finding-nemo-turning-kids-on-to-lesbianism/178599/98 "2003-06-01T21:30:53Z")
> [@](#): > > **Re: Finding Nemo turning kids on to lesbianism** You say that as if it were a bad thing. > [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Amp \* > \*\*That’s why I had to stop watching Will and Grace. They almost turned me into one of them thar homer-sexuals. \*\* No, you’re thinking of The Simpsons. ---
**Author:** ![Esprix](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/esprix/32/7899_2.png) [@Esprix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Esprix)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2003, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finding-nemo-turning-kids-on-to-lesbianism/178599/99 "2003-06-01T22:35:49Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Freyr \* > > Well of course they will! Doesn’t everyone remember how, after Disney’s _Mulan_ was released all those kids wanted to be foul-mouthed standup comics? 😃 Yes, let’s note that there was no outrage that _Mulan_ used the voice talents of Harvey Fierstein - a _known homosexual_! :eek: The horror, the horror… :rolleyes: Esprix ---
**Author:** ![rjung](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/45deac/32.png) [@rjung](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rjung)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2003, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finding-nemo-turning-kids-on-to-lesbianism/178599/100 "2003-06-02T01:18:59Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Freyr \* > Doesn’t everyone remember how, after Disney’s _Mulan_ was released all those kids wanted to be foul-mouthed standup comics? 😃 And here I thought the Christian Right’s uproar over _Mulan_ was that it exposed kids to the pagan beliefs “those people” followed, such as praying to ancestral ghosts and thinking of dragons (Satan!) as benefactors. :eek: 😉 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finding-nemo-turning-kids-on-to-lesbianism/178599.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finding-nemo-turning-kids-on-to-lesbianism/178599.md?page=6)