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Small stupidities..
Aug. 10th, 2006 08:47 amI worry for the world. Strangely enough, it's not over the big things like war and pestilence, either. No, it's the small stupidities that do the most to convince me that humans may not survive as a species.
Case in point, the new movie "Barnyard". Sure it's your average Nickelodeon animated feature, not high on the intelligence factor to begin with. Except, you see, the main character is Otis and he is a cow. Now I can ignore the fact that male bovines are actually bulls, not cows. It's a grammatical distinction that, in most cases, doesn't matter. However, our Otis? He (note the masculine pronoun here) has an udder.
Yeah. That's what I thought, too.
Have these people no common sense at all? How do you create a main character of a feature animated film and have no one in the production point out: "Hey, dude, male cows? They don't have udders. No, seriously, man, bulls don't have udders. No need for them."
I'd like to believe that it was just some really stupid design things going on there, but I'm afraid that no one on the production actually knew that bulls don't have udders.
It brings to mind the reason I stopped watching Sesame Street with Myr (and didn't encourage her to watch it either). They had this sketch where a Rooster came into the big city. He somehow got mixed up with aliens or something and I think it was supposed to teach tolerance and acceptance of others. A great goal, and I was thrilled to see some mention of the country and country life in the show. You know, expand the universe a little for the kids who live in big cities. It was all just fine until they had him lay eggs. Sesame Street was supposed to be an educational show! How could they have gotten that so wrong?
I realize that there is a whole lot of people out there that have never seen an actual living, in the flesh cow/bull or rooster/hen. People who have never set foot off the the concrete of the cities they were born into. But, my God, this is basic biology here. Someone, somewhere had to know how wrong this was.
Right?
I fear the world my daughter is going to live in.
Case in point, the new movie "Barnyard". Sure it's your average Nickelodeon animated feature, not high on the intelligence factor to begin with. Except, you see, the main character is Otis and he is a cow. Now I can ignore the fact that male bovines are actually bulls, not cows. It's a grammatical distinction that, in most cases, doesn't matter. However, our Otis? He (note the masculine pronoun here) has an udder.
Yeah. That's what I thought, too.
Have these people no common sense at all? How do you create a main character of a feature animated film and have no one in the production point out: "Hey, dude, male cows? They don't have udders. No, seriously, man, bulls don't have udders. No need for them."
I'd like to believe that it was just some really stupid design things going on there, but I'm afraid that no one on the production actually knew that bulls don't have udders.
It brings to mind the reason I stopped watching Sesame Street with Myr (and didn't encourage her to watch it either). They had this sketch where a Rooster came into the big city. He somehow got mixed up with aliens or something and I think it was supposed to teach tolerance and acceptance of others. A great goal, and I was thrilled to see some mention of the country and country life in the show. You know, expand the universe a little for the kids who live in big cities. It was all just fine until they had him lay eggs. Sesame Street was supposed to be an educational show! How could they have gotten that so wrong?
I realize that there is a whole lot of people out there that have never seen an actual living, in the flesh cow/bull or rooster/hen. People who have never set foot off the the concrete of the cities they were born into. But, my God, this is basic biology here. Someone, somewhere had to know how wrong this was.
Right?
I fear the world my daughter is going to live in.
