In case you thought those whackjobs who think every cartoon is promoting homosexuality only existed in America, it seems the Ukraine has them too. And they’re trying to ban Spongebob Squarepants because he’s going to turn the kids gay. Or something.
Morality police in the Ukraine are trying to get Nickelodeon cartoon SpongeBob Squarepants banned because of its perceived ‘promotion of homosexuality’.
The Ukraine’s National Expert Commission for Protecting Public Morality released the report, calling the children’s cartoon a ‘real threat to children’.
Some of the other shows under fire include Family Guy, Pokemon, The Simpsons and Teletubbies, which the report says ‘projects aimed at the destruction of the family, and the promotion of drugs and other vices’…
It also criticises the fact that one of the stars of the BBC children’s show, Tinky Winky, carries what looks like a woman’s handbag, saying: ‘in real life, boys very rarely want to put on girls’ clothes’.
Cartoon star SpongeBob has a large gay fanbase in the U.S. as well as a being a huge hit with children.
The ‘evidence’ that points to SpongeBob’s homosexuality seems to extend to the fact that he regularly holds hands with a pink starfish called Patrick, who is also his best friend.
I’ll take irrationality for $1000, Alex.
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Ellie
August 22, 2012 at 9:42 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
What are they saying? Is this their quaint way of telling the world that former President G. W. Bush and Saudi Crown Prince Abdullah are gay?
daved
August 22, 2012 at 9:46 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
I thought everyone knew that by now.
Abby Normal
August 22, 2012 at 9:49 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
What a bunch of krabby patties.
Irreverend Bastard
August 22, 2012 at 9:50 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
I’d love to ban Teletubbies. But I wouldn’t, because there are worse things out there!
Marcus Ranum
August 22, 2012 at 9:53 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
They’re afraid he’ll turn kids gay, not spongy? Priorities, people, priorities!!!
Gregory in Seattle
August 22, 2012 at 10:00 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Sooo… being gay is not only a choice, it is a choice that a government board can impose? Or does that apply only to fictional cartoon characters?
holytape
August 22, 2012 at 10:01 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Next thing that they are going to do is that Scooby Doo promoted pot smoking…..
martinrundkvist
August 22, 2012 at 10:03 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
I don’t know if Tinky Winky is gay or not, but it’s true that the Teletubbies are huge stoners. Watching half an episode makes me feel baked off my ass.
Zinc Avenger (Sarcasm Tags 3.0 Compliant)
August 22, 2012 at 10:03 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
I knew it!
zippythepinhead
August 22, 2012 at 10:07 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
If we don’t teach children intolerance at an early age, how will they ever learn?
Balstrome
August 22, 2012 at 10:17 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
I love being outside the America internet cloud… How many of you have see this SpongeBob story weeks before it got replicated here on Ftb. I think I saw it talked about on fb about a month ago, and that gay teletubbies thing, well that is about 20 years old, and you know it.
Cutting edge..not.
Geds
August 22, 2012 at 10:18 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
It also criticises the fact that one of the stars of the BBC children’s show, Tinky Winky, carries what looks like a woman’s handbag, saying: ‘in real life, boys very rarely want to put on girls’ clothes’.
Wait, what? Was this written in 1998? Or is this kind of like the way the ’80s didn’t make it to Canada until 1992?
Gregory in Seattle
August 22, 2012 at 10:18 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
@zippythepinhead #10 – That, in a nutshell, is exactly why totalitarian regiemes oppose the Teletubbies, SpongeBob and the rest: they teach tolerance. Since tyrants and oligarchs use hate to control the masses, and since tolerance undermines that hate, they cannot allow tolerance in any way, shape or form.
eric
August 22, 2012 at 10:23 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
“We’re merely exchanging long protein strings! If you can think of a simpler way, I’d like to hear it!”.
raven
August 22, 2012 at 10:28 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
The Ukrainians stole it from the American fundies.
You don’t think fundies are bright enough to make up their own delusions, do you?
They all just copy each other. Moslem fundies take US fundie xian creationist mythology and just change god to Allah.
Rep. Akin’s (non)knowledge of rape and women’s ability to control their fertility mentally dates from the Middle Ages.
Doug Little
August 22, 2012 at 10:45 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
It’s a European satchel.
Doug Little
August 22, 2012 at 10:47 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Barney?
thalwen
August 22, 2012 at 10:51 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
With the Ukrainian economy being in the shitter, corruption being rampant, and many people living without basic needs, it is good that they have their priorities right – fighting imaginary gay cartoon characters.
raven
August 22, 2012 at 11:04 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Barney is gay too. The dinosaur is purple for Cthulhu’s sake!!!
And don’t even try to defend the Muppets.
I forget what is evil about Kermit the frog but I’m sure they found something.
raven
August 22, 2012 at 11:10 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
According to Fox News, the Muppets are commies.
ashleybell
August 22, 2012 at 11:21 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
The greatest phenomenon out there is the Streisand Effect. There’s this Spongebob thing, Aan’s persecution, The interrment of Pussy Riot, loudmouth Akin, etc etc etc. None of the antagonists in these scenarios have learned the secret mindboggling power of shutting the fuck up and taking a chill pill. Ignoring certain things really can defang them, not that I want Pussy Riot or Aan to be defanged, just released from prison.
Doug Little
August 22, 2012 at 11:24 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
I guess when Kermit sings “It’s not easy bein’ green” he really means red.
kermit.
August 22, 2012 at 11:43 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
balstrome: Cutting edge..not.
Yes, this is an opinion blog and discussion forum for primarily US 1st amendment issues. Not intended to be a news site. Are you just now realizing that? Not exactly cutting edge, are you?
Reginald Selkirk
August 22, 2012 at 11:44 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
So Europeans are gay? This is really snowballing. No wonder the Ukrainians are concerned about something so contagious.
Balstrome
August 22, 2012 at 12:24 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Yes, I already realised that a couple years back. There only America, with their weird cousins to the north and their slave labour to the south, everything means nothing, just ignore it.
John Hinkle
August 22, 2012 at 1:02 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Oh boy, I hope they’re using the Absolute Objective Morals of the Universe, and not some feeble-minded, man-made morals used by bigots.
Oh wait, the first ones don’t exist.
Doug Little
August 22, 2012 at 1:15 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Well not really, One can have a man bag and not be gay. Indiana Jones has one.
Read here
iangould
August 22, 2012 at 8:43 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
“They’re afraid he’ll turn kids gay, not spongy? Priorities, people, priorities!!!”
If anything, they should be worried about him teaching kids they can breathe under water.
kantalope
August 22, 2012 at 9:17 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
So, if there was a clip of Spongebob shagging the squirrel they would be all ok with the cartoon?
This is the internet; that can probably be arranged.
Ichthyic
August 22, 2012 at 10:24 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
I’m sure the evidence they used to try and ban Spongebob was the upcoming movie…
Spongeback Mountain
lancifer
August 22, 2012 at 11:42 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
I suspect Plankton is behind the ban.
If Sponge Bob is banned from the Ukraine Plankton can open a chain of Chum Bucket restaurants without fear that Ukrainians will discover his cuisine is inferior to Crabby Patties.
valhar2000
August 23, 2012 at 6:09 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Well, it is true that Family Guy and The Simpsons are not kid’s shows, nor were they ever intended to be. They are simply victims of the Animation Age Ghetto.
Midnight Rambler
August 23, 2012 at 7:00 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Like Family Guy, for starters.
Also, Balstrome: the opinion of anyone who willingly watched Battleship and continues to mention it on their FB page is automatically invalid.
lofgren
August 23, 2012 at 10:22 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
In fairness, Spongebob is exceedingly gay. I know because I had gay sex with him just last night.
dean
August 23, 2012 at 3:58 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
The best headline I’ve seen on this was