Inspired by Case Sensitive’s posts (#7, #28, and #58, as well as scumpup’s comments in #53) on the subtle homosexual themes in Toy Story in This thread.
A sample:
Take the (seemingly) simple, innocent, wholesome children’s book, movie, or TV show of your choice (or perhaps one suggested by a previous poster), and tell us what the author was really trying to say, even though we never thought of it.
“The Lord of the Rings” is often promoted as family fare, but watch out, moms and dads: there is a distinct tinge of pedophilia in Gandalf’s relationship to those halflings. The hobbits may technically be adults, but they look like children, and the old man sure does imply a bit of huggybumpus with them on more than one occasion. And what about that wand? If that isn’t the phallic symbol of a sexual predator, I’ll eat Gandalf’s hat with fava beans and a nice Chianti.
We cannot overlook the essential homoerotic undercurrent of the plot. With the possible exception of Aragorn (who may be using the apparent unattainability of Arwen as a ploy to stay in the closet,) it appears that everyone else is either gay (Frodo + Sam, all the twiddly blonde Elves, especially the überdyke Galadriel) or asexual (Gimli) or just plain bent (Gollum.) Middle-Earth abounds in fairy-folk. Goodness knows Tolkien provided enough hints of what was going on. A few quotes from LOTR:
“You should never have gone mixing yourself up with Hobbiton folk, Mr. Frodo. Folk are queer up there.”
“It don’t seem to matter what I think about them. They are quite different from what I expected-- so old and young, so gay and sad, as it were.”
Not to mention this corker, from “The Hobbit”…
“O! What are you seeking?
And where are you making?
The faggots are reeking,
The bannocks are baking!
O! Tril-lil-lil-lolly
The valley is jolly,
Ha! Ha!”
I recently read a Curious George story to a little pal and there was some seriously creepy sexual tension going on in there with the man in the yellow hat. Gives me the shivers just thinking about it. I’m serious. It was fucked up how disturbing it was.
Could someone please work over Voltron or the Thundercats? I’m trying, but it’s just not working.
A quote from LOTR: "Now splaying her legs, she drove her huge bulk down on him again. Too soon. For Sam still stood upon his feet, and dropping his own sword, with both hands he held the elven-blade point upwards, fending off that ghastly roof: and so Shelob, with the driving force of her own cruel will, with strength greater than any warrior’s hand, thrust herself on a bitter spike. Deep, deep it pricked, as Sam was crushed slowly to the ground." {italics mine}
Any further analysis I could provide is probably superfluous.
I remember hearing an analysis of “The Cat In The Hat” on NPR a while back where this guy was suggesting that the whole story was symbolic of the two children’s sexual awakening while their mom was out for the day. I will never read that story the same way again! :eek:
I once analyzed
*Some primal termite knocked on wood
And tasted it, and found it good
And that is why your Cousin May
Fell through the parlor floor today *
for a class, and sort-of-accidentally ended up deconstructing it as a metaphor for original sin. Not what I set out to do at all.
Y’all do realize you’re merely giving fodder to the nutjobs like James Dobson, don’t you? 
And speaking of which, not only is the relationship between Spongebob Squarepants and Patrick Star gayer than a West Hollywood Halloween Parade, 
but Patrick Star is also a subversive model for androgeny – aside from the gender-neutral name “Pat” (which Spongebob uses with disturbing frequency), you’ll note that every time the starfish is shown naked, there are no genitalia depicted. Heck, the recently-released movie even features several scenes where Patrick is shown in fishnet stockings and high heels, further adding to the character’s crimes against distinctive sexual stereotypes. Clearly, “Pat” is part of the plot to erase the lines of sexual roles for impressionable young children and eventually lead to legalized man-man-dog-horse-woman marriages…
Since I first read it, I’ve felt that *Rainbow Fish *espouses communism. Look at the story: Rainbow Fish has something better than the others (i.e., his beautiful scales) and is shunned by the other fish because of this. At the end, he gives up his scales and the fish who once shunned him take them and only then accept him. The rather obvious message is that happiness can only be achieved by giving up one’s own aspirations and gifts and becoming an undifferentiated anybody.
I’m in a hurry, so this is the Reader’s Digest version.
Beauty and the Beast: once again, the alcoholic/drug addicted/irresponsible male is redeemed by the love of a good woman. Message to girls: “you, too, can save him from himself!” Message to boys:“go ahead, mess up your life–someone will take the responsiblity for you!”
Crap–that one may be true… :eek: