Webbo Posted 22 July 2014 Posted 22 July 2014 Credit to Vacamion for the original post. And now for an article on the way in which Thomas the Tank Engine is representative of the racist white, male, homophobic kleptocracy. http://www.theguardi...ents?CMP=twt_gu The article is sooooooo "Guardianista", it's almost funny. Thomas and those friends are trains that toil away endlessly on the Isle of Sodor – which seems to be forever caught in British colonial times – and, on its surface, the show seems to impart good moral lessons about hard work and friendship. But if you look through the steam rising up from the coal-powered train stacks, you realize that the pretty puffs of smoke are concealing some pretty twisted, anachronistic messages. For one, these trains perform tasks dictated by their imperious, little white boss, Sir Topham Hatt (also known as The Fat Controller), whose attire of a top hat, tuxedo and big round belly is just a little too obvious. Basically, he's the Monopoly dictator of their funky little island. Hatt orders the trains to do everything from hauling freight to carrying passengers to running whatever random errand he wants done, whenever he wants it done – regardless of their pre-existing schedules. Unbelievable stuff.
Guest MattP Posted 22 July 2014 Posted 22 July 2014 Hoping it's satire bit given it's the Guardian it may not be. It wouldn't look out of place in a sixth form room being penned by Owen Jones and Polly Toynbee.
ADK Posted 22 July 2014 Posted 22 July 2014 It's probably the reason why I was never interested in it as a child, a very boringly conservative kids program.
purpleronnie Posted 22 July 2014 Posted 22 July 2014 Even funnier is people believe this was really how she felt. Typical telegraph/mail readers.
Bellend Sebastian Posted 22 July 2014 Posted 22 July 2014 I'd be more willing to take issue if I didn't think Thomas the Tank Engine was ******* shit. Give me the hard hitting relevant social commentary of Sam Brick et al any time
Webbo Posted 22 July 2014 Author Posted 22 July 2014 Said the Mail reader... Don't think we haven't noticed the New series of Tellytubbies and the BBC's attempt to brainwash our kids into becoming homosexual muslims.
Trav Le Bleu Posted 22 July 2014 Posted 22 July 2014 You could pretty much say this about most boys literature pre 1980s... it was written for boys. As much as you might want your son to be a little girl, he's a boy... well most of them are.
Alf Bentley Posted 22 July 2014 Posted 22 July 2014 The only, er, sensible response to this topic must come from....Half Man Half Biscuit.....
Harry - LCFC Posted 22 July 2014 Posted 22 July 2014 She can't have meant that smoke/race thing. That part must have been a joke. Surely.
MooseBreath Posted 22 July 2014 Posted 22 July 2014 I think you might want to name this thread something more specific because with its current title it could run and run and run
Guest MattP Posted 22 July 2014 Posted 22 July 2014 Odds on this being lifted into the August edition of 'free speech news'?
Rincewind Posted 22 July 2014 Posted 22 July 2014 The Wombles were campaigning for the Green Party. There may be a little truth in it but as it is aimed at kids who are not developed enough to be intellectual deep thinkers it can be dismissed as rubbish. The author of the piece should stop watching kids programs and bmove on to issues that affect adults.
Saxondale Posted 22 July 2014 Posted 22 July 2014 How dare they speak about Thomas the Tank Engine in such a way. F ucking sour twats.
Guest MattP Posted 23 July 2014 Posted 23 July 2014 David Starkey slapping down Grauniad columnist Laurie Penny as she tries to get personal. Always great to see these 'modern feminist' types get destroyed in public.
Vacamion Posted 23 July 2014 Posted 23 July 2014 David Starkey slapping down Grauniad columnist Laurie Penny as she tries to get personal. Always great to see these 'modern feminist' types get destroyed in public. Utterly cringeworthy. Almost in the couldn't carry on watching category. The journo who wrote the Thomas the Tank Engine article has a website, http://tracyvanslyke.com/ , which contains the sort of phrases I last read in "Millie Tant". Sometimes, I feel like "the enemy" just for being a white straight male.
Guest MattP Posted 23 July 2014 Posted 23 July 2014 The journo who wrote the Thomas the Tank Engine article has a website, http://tracyvanslyke.com/ , which contains the sort of phrases I last read in "Millie Tant". Well at least now we know it wasn't a parody, honestly, who actually pays out of their own money to read shit like this in a newspaper?
Guest MattP Posted 23 July 2014 Posted 23 July 2014 Sometimes, I feel like "the enemy" just for being a white straight male. You are to many on the left and certainly to those of the Laurie Penny ilk, the middle class white female liberal educated at Mummy and Daddies expense who seem to spend their whole life in a state of self-loathing. However their real hate is reserved for the Starkey's etc, the gay ones, the ones who went to state schools, the ethnic ones, the ones who came through troubles and still came out a proud British Conservative despite starting with nothing, they absolutely despise these sorts. They weren't suppose to turn out that way.
Voll Blau Posted 23 July 2014 Posted 23 July 2014 Ugh. It's no wonder we're becoming a more right-wing nation when people like this are seen as being representative of the left. Fvcks sake.
leicsmac Posted 23 July 2014 Posted 23 July 2014 Utterly cringeworthy. Almost in the couldn't carry on watching category. The journo who wrote the Thomas the Tank Engine article has a website, http://tracyvanslyke.com/ , which contains the sort of phrases I last read in "Millie Tant". Sometimes, I feel like "the enemy" just for being a white straight male. Being a white straight male still gives you a certain level of privilege and opportunity in this country that others don't have. Totally agree that some on the left are ridiculous in their criticism of that demographic, though. Like in this case - Thomas the Tank Engine as a metaphor for racial and sexual intolerance? Really? How sodding daft is that? Ugh. It's no wonder we're becoming a more right-wing nation when people like this are seen as being representative of the left. Fvcks sake. Exactly.
Rincewind Posted 23 July 2014 Posted 23 July 2014 I don't see them as that. There are idiots right and left and never the twain shall meet.
purpleronnie Posted 23 July 2014 Posted 23 July 2014 Ugh. It's no wonder we're becoming a more right-wing nation when people like this are seen as being representative of the left. Fvcks sake. Or maybe people can't see parody or a wind-up. And take everything they read seriously. IT'S PC GONE MAD I TELL YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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