Emmets ahoy

[bunn]

Overheard today:

"OH GOD!!!! NOW THERE's A BULL!!!!"  (very shrill)
"No, it's OK, it's just a cow.  Just walk past" (authoritative, but somewhat nervously)
"Oh, OK a cow?   I'll carry the dog. "

Let's examine the evidence:

Actually he is an absolute gentleman and really one could not hope to meet a nicer bovine.   But really, how could anyone think that is a cow?

Comments

[lil-shepherd.livejournal.com]

Perhaps they've been confused by that Disney cartoon where all the bulls have udders?

[philmophlegm.livejournal.com]

I thought that was a Boddingtons advert? Or is it both?

[lil-shepherd.livejournal.com]

I haven't seen the Bod advert.

Barnyard is infamous.

[bunn.livejournal.com]

Don't get me started on cartoon bovines and their inappropriate sexual characteristics. GRRRRRRR

[lil-shepherd.livejournal.com]

To be fair, with something like Scooby-Doo, few people will notice the absence of the... er... dog's bollocks, any more than they notice the lack of bulge in the skin-tight costumes of male superheroes. And with the puritan nature of American society, leaving off sexual organs that the juniors - indeed, a lot of the seniors - won't notice even in Real Life unless their attention is drawn to them is not so bad.

I wouldn't really have objected so much to things like Barnyard if the sexual organs simply hadn't been there. It's giving animals the wrong sexual characteristics that really annoys me.