Mickey Mouse wears pants. Why does Donald Duck wander around with his nether regions uncovered?
I mean, I could understand if he didn’t wear clothes at all. He’s a duck and ducks don’t wear clothes. Daffy Duck doesn’t wear clothes.
But, apparently, as an anthropomorphized duck, Donald feels some necessity to cover his nakedness. But what a strange choice! Pants aren’t generally considered optional. I mean, being a guy, I can wander around barefoot and shirtless in the summer and no one cares. But if I tried going to the beach wearing only a tee-shirt I’d get arrested.
A ducks legs/feet are important to the design of a duck-based character. their legs are unique. No one gives a shit about a mouse’s legs. So putting pants on a duck character robs them oh interesting visual.
He does wear pants, you just are not looking correctly.
You see his pants and his shirt are BOTH WHITE, just like Donald’s feathers are
You think the blue garment that looks like a shirt is in fact a shirt. This gives him the illusion that he has no pants. That isn’t a shirt, that’s like a pullover sweater.
This is even weirder. So he walks around all the time with his crotch totally exposed, but then gets modest and covers himself when he takes off his shirt?
Probably the same reason he speaks English, drives a car, and lives in a single-family detached house.He’s not real.
No shirt, no shoes, no service. And how much people care depends on how fit you are I suppose, but there are some places where shirtlessness would definitely be unacceptable. As for pantlessness, Donald is a duck, not a man. Duck’s genitals do not flop about exposed like yours presumably might if unpantsed.
Ducks, like all birds, have internal naughty bits. The only time we can see them through the feathers is for a brief moment during mating. The cloaca in the male and female everts, and sperm cells are transferred.
Did anybody else have weird dreams as a kid where you were walking around completely bottomless and interacting with the cartoons as nothing was odd about it?
See, Walt Disney was engaging in bizarre genetic animal anthropomorphizing experiments. His initial experiments with a mouse and a duck were successful, but when he tried it on a dog, the subject experienced a certain amount of brain damage.
