She-Ra sneaks queering agenda into kids’ cartoon

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Alright I may have misunderstood you but you referred to the infamous “Kinsey scale” here which is associated with that theory.

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As one person I know online says, paraphrased: “why is it okay to show straight couple and straight marriage to children? That’s sexualizing too. Every kids cartoon should have lgbtq characters because it’s normal.” They want it normalized from an early age. My daughter’s elementary school has a prominent lgbtq pride poster right next to the main door entrance.
 
Do they also have a prominent pride posters for fornication or adultery or masturbation?
 
I would remove my child from that school and into a more wholesome school.
 
Haha, yes. I’ve recently started reading through R.E. Howard’s short stories, and I’m like, “Yeah, I can see how that would never make it in a children’s show…” 😛

One of the fun facts was that He-Man and She-Ra were originally created to basically be glorified commercials to sell a toy line. The animators decided to include the “moral at the end of the story” bit so that there was at least one redeeming quality in each episode! And the whole reason why the character of Light Hope was invented was because they wanted a character that couldn’t be commercialized. 🙂

I loved She-Ra! 💚 I didn’t like watching He-Man at all. The character design was too embarrassing. But I tried hard not to miss She-Ra.
 
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Neithan said:
Alright I may have misunderstood you but you referred to the infamous “Kinsey scale” here which is associated with that theory.
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He Kinsey scale is who you are attracted to. Sexual fluidity is about sexual identity, male or female that changing throughout one’s lifetime or from day to day. I’m not persuaded that that is true.
 
I remember one of the big problems with Kinsey’s work is that a lot of his data was taken from prison populations— and incidents in prison don’t exactly reflect the experiences of the general population. Likewise, he would deliberately seek out certain populations based on their behavior… and so his sampling naturally skewed higher towards those behaviors. Kinsey, on the other hand, explained it away by rationalizing that most random ordinary people didn’t want to answer a sex survey— but that doesn’t validate his methodology.

Other highlights about his work—
Kinsey often presented his statistics as if they applied to average moms, dads, sisters, and brothers. In doing so, he claimed 95 percent of American men had violated sex-crime laws that could land them in jail. Thus Americans were told they had to change their sex-offender laws to “fit the facts.” But, in reality, Kinsey’s reports never applied to average people in the general population. In fact, many of the men Kinsey surveyed were actually prison inmates. Wardell B. Pomeroy, Kinsey co-author and an eyewitness to the research, wrote that by 1946 the team had taken sexual histories from about 1,400 imprisoned sex offenders. Kinsey never revealed how many of these criminals were included in his total sample of “about 5,300” white males. But he did admit including “several hundred” male prostitutes. Additionally, at least 317 of Kinsey’s male subjects were not even adults, but sexually abused children.

Piling error on top of error, about 75 percent of Kinsey’s adult male subjects volunteered to give their sexual histories. As Stanford University psychologist Lewis M. Terman observed, volunteers for sex studies are two to four times more sexually active than non-volunteers.

Kinsey’s work didn’t improve in his volume on women. In fact, he interviewed so few average women that he actually had to redefine “married” to include any woman who had lived with a man for more than a year. This change added prostitutes to his sample of “married” women.

In the December 11, 1949, New York Times, W. Allen Wallis, then chairman of the University of Chicago’s committee on statistics, dismissed "the entire method of collecting and presenting the statistics which underlie Dr. Kinsey’s conclusions:’ Wallis noted, “There are six major aspects of any statistical research, and Kinsey fails on four.”
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I remember one of the big problems with Kinsey’s work is that a lot of his data was taken from prison populations— and incidents in prison don’t exactly reflect the experiences of the general population […]
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I know, I know, I know, tell that to the other posters who reference Kinsey. I read Kinsey: Crimes and Consequences the Red Queen and the Grand Scheme years ago and avoided referencing Kinsey until seeing how often CAFers did. I got lazy. Also, there are improved and more inclusive scales out there. I come out as “X” on the traditional Kinsey scale so it’s not really useful to me personally, especially considering the varied definitions and interpretations of that.
 
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I thought the original He-Man had totally gay overtones.
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Are you kidding me?!?!? There were no gay overtones in the original He-Man. Also, the company which made the original He-Man was very concerned with morality.

I’ve rewatched many of the 1980s episodes of both He Man & She-Ra. The 1980s versions were very wholesome - esp with the post episode moral lessons.
 
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Are you kidding me?!?!? There were no gay overtones in the original He-Man. Also, the company who made the original He-Man was very concerned with morality.

I’ve rewatched many of the 1980s episodes of both He Man & She-Ra. The 1980s versions were very wholesome - esp with the post episode moral lessons.
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Did any episodes deal with sexual morality?
 
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He-Man is not gay!!!
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😅 I didn’t say he was. Not that there’s anything wrong with that. 😀

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  1. two guys riding on one horse is not gay when there is only 1 horse and no cars.
  2. that 2nd pic was not seen like that in the show. your are posting a screen freeze of one frame which is when He-Man is turning and going though a number of facial expressions depicting his uncomfortableness with Frosta’s aggressive flirtation towards him.
    Here is the entire clip when that was happening Frosta School of Pursuing Men - YouTube
Also, it was a pretty unspoken truth that He-Man was in love with Teela.
 
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phil19034:
Are you kidding me?!?!? There were no gay overtones in the original He-Man. Also, the company who made the original He-Man was very concerned with morality.

I’ve rewatched many of the 1980s episodes of both He Man & She-Ra. The 1980s versions were very wholesome - esp with the post episode moral lessons.
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Did any episodes deal with sexual morality?
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In the original, no. But they also didn’t deal with sexual immorality either. It was a kids’ show. When I was watching it as a kid, I didn’t know what sex was and no-one was trying to push sexual immorality down the throats of kids.

BTW - the clip above with the blue haired Frosta hitting on He-Man was from a She-Ra episode and not a He-Man episode.
 
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I miss the good old cartoons. All the Hanna Barbera, Looney Tunes and ect.
 
For some reason I feel compelled now to watch Masters of the Universe. Man, I miss the 1980s when movies didn’t have such political overtones, PC garbage, and were just plain fun! How far we’ve fallen from those days.
 
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