Thomas the tank engine = Tyranny, Sexism and FEAR!
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I believe I speak for my entire family when I say "WHAT!?!"
This is bogus. I watched Thomas the Tank Engine with my mother until I was 12, and if there was any sexism in there, she would have caught it.
This is bogus. I watched Thomas the Tank Engine with my mother until I was 12, and if there was any sexism in there, she would have caught it.
W.T.F.
I thought this was a joke thread, but someone has written a serious article on it?! It's a CHILDREN'S SERIES. Dear gods, these sorts of people need to go out and do some PROPER scientific research like me!
I thought this was a joke thread, but someone has written a serious article on it?! It's a CHILDREN'S SERIES. Dear gods, these sorts of people need to go out and do some PROPER scientific research like me!
Agent Larkin said:Thank you for ruining what precious few happy childhood memories I once had with that image.cuddly_tomato said:I think the article has it spot on, your memories are merely clouded by time. Anyone remember what happened in this episode?
OT: Some people just read into stuff too deeply.
You are so right there. Bloody hell what are they doing to this. I still have some episodes of Thomas on tape and a few books that the kids like. Why are they trying to warp the image we used to have and twist it into something i don't want to see?
Can nothing of our past memories stay sacred these days?
I actually thought Toby was a girl when I was a tiny tot. The only reason I ever watched it was to see trains. I'll bet you anything the reason her kid was playing with Thomas and Toby, instead of the girl trucks or whatever was because Thomas and Toby are the main characters. If she watched Dora the Explorer, she would play with a Dora doll, not on of the support characters. Gender has nothing to do with it.
This researcher needs to pull her head out of her butt, get over her own insecurities, and get back to her own dead end job. In the words of a wise man, "you have to have gone to college to be this stupid."
This researcher needs to pull her head out of her butt, get over her own insecurities, and get back to her own dead end job. In the words of a wise man, "you have to have gone to college to be this stupid."
Teletubbies, fair enough, there was plenty of problems with that but Thomas the Tank Engine? seriously? WTF? it's probably one of the only childrens programs that doesn't
A)Teach them to talk in a different accent
B)Teach them to talk like retards
C)Teach them anything stupid
It is a simple STORY show for young children, I mean if they are going to bash anything at least bash something that deserves to be bashed, 99% of the stuff on children's TV now I wouldn't have watched when I was the right age for it...
No wonder today's "young people" are becoming retarded if they are being fed the load of bullshit that they have to watch, I grew out of all that shortly after they introduced the teletubbies and as far as I remember that was the beginning of all the rubbish that there is now. I honestly couldn't give names of anything but any time I hear a flicker of childrens TV whether it be in an electrical shop, channel hopping for at a friends house, it is all frankly.... Stupid, I'm not saying give them all serious stuff and drop "Childrens TV" all together, I mean I grew up on a diet of Playday's, Thomas, Whinnie the Pooh (the proper version) and all those classic Disney films none of those taught me anything useless or tried to teach me how to talk they were simply entertainment and let school do it's job.
A)Teach them to talk in a different accent
B)Teach them to talk like retards
C)Teach them anything stupid
It is a simple STORY show for young children, I mean if they are going to bash anything at least bash something that deserves to be bashed, 99% of the stuff on children's TV now I wouldn't have watched when I was the right age for it...
No wonder today's "young people" are becoming retarded if they are being fed the load of bullshit that they have to watch, I grew out of all that shortly after they introduced the teletubbies and as far as I remember that was the beginning of all the rubbish that there is now. I honestly couldn't give names of anything but any time I hear a flicker of childrens TV whether it be in an electrical shop, channel hopping for at a friends house, it is all frankly.... Stupid, I'm not saying give them all serious stuff and drop "Childrens TV" all together, I mean I grew up on a diet of Playday's, Thomas, Whinnie the Pooh (the proper version) and all those classic Disney films none of those taught me anything useless or tried to teach me how to talk they were simply entertainment and let school do it's job.
cuddly_tomato said:You are most welcome.Agent Larkin said:Thank you for ruining what precious few happy childhood memories I once had with that image.cuddly_tomato said:I think the article has it spot on, your memories are merely clouded by time. Anyone remember what happened in this episode?
I remember that one. Amazingly educational.
You know, what's funniest is that it's the changes that have been made in order to provide some sort of political correctness which have brought about most of these problems.
First up, Thomas the Tank Engine is about a TRAIN. This is not My Little Politically Correct World of Equality and Joy; it's a show about big things made of metal. It's a BOY'S set of books, which became a BOY'S TV show.
Originally the only two "female" characters were Annie and Clarabel and yes, they were in theory largely subordinate to Thomas because they are carriages. Woo. Of course, it could be argued that Thomas is their subordinate, since he does all the hard work and they get to enjoy the scenery.
It's only because since Rev. W. Audry passed away they've padded and added periphery female characters that any of this has come up. Putting aside the clear argument of "how does a train have a gender?" (because it's countered by "how does a train have a working face; dipstick") we'll skip straight to "there are billions of boys' stories where the girls are portrayed as weak or minor characters" - arguing about this is about as disingenuous as grumbling that Hollywood provides vast amounts of films which have white, male, English-speaking leads.
And on the disciplinarian side of things, I was thinking the other day that we could actually do with some role models who obey the rules for once. Almost all modern media is dominated by stories of cops / doctors / lawyers / sumo-wrestling bears who're the good guys but break all the rules to get the job done.
Okay, so no-one has accepted my script of Largo the Sumo Bear yet, but it'll happen.
First up, Thomas the Tank Engine is about a TRAIN. This is not My Little Politically Correct World of Equality and Joy; it's a show about big things made of metal. It's a BOY'S set of books, which became a BOY'S TV show.
Originally the only two "female" characters were Annie and Clarabel and yes, they were in theory largely subordinate to Thomas because they are carriages. Woo. Of course, it could be argued that Thomas is their subordinate, since he does all the hard work and they get to enjoy the scenery.
It's only because since Rev. W. Audry passed away they've padded and added periphery female characters that any of this has come up. Putting aside the clear argument of "how does a train have a gender?" (because it's countered by "how does a train have a working face; dipstick") we'll skip straight to "there are billions of boys' stories where the girls are portrayed as weak or minor characters" - arguing about this is about as disingenuous as grumbling that Hollywood provides vast amounts of films which have white, male, English-speaking leads.
And on the disciplinarian side of things, I was thinking the other day that we could actually do with some role models who obey the rules for once. Almost all modern media is dominated by stories of cops / doctors / lawyers / sumo-wrestling bears who're the good guys but break all the rules to get the job done.
Okay, so no-one has accepted my script of Largo the Sumo Bear yet, but it'll happen.
People who "research" children's TV are likely to say tgey found a swastika in the Soviet Union's flag or that they heard satanic messages in Jingle Bells
