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The Perverted Walt Disney Empire
BuzzKill:
What ever snopes says - but I heard it played and it was not what is reported here. Not even close. I suspect this is yet another example of an odd "misunderstanding" and the excuse they gave for it.
BuzzKill:
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Now if you REALLY want to get freaky, check out the cover of The Little Mermaid!!! Never have I seen such profanity - won't somebody think of the children??
http://www.snopes.com/disney/films/mermaid.asp
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I can see some such examples being accidental. But occasionally there is reason to suspect it is intentional. An example (scroll down) http://http://urbansemiotic.com/2009/04/28/my-old-kentucky-penis/
Difficult to believe this wasn't intended.
Have you an opinion of the Donald Duck ride from the OP link? Intentional or not?
Anne Bonney:
--- Quote from: "BuzzKill" --- An example (scroll down) http://http://urbansemiotic.com/2009/04/28/my-old-kentucky-penis/
Difficult to believe this wasn't intended.
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I wouldn't have "seen" it unless it was pointed out and I don't think it was intentional. I think people are reading/seeing waaaaaayyyy too much into these things. And I think a lot of people are afraid of catching "teh ghey" (you can't catch it, stop worrying).
"Offensive" picture in question:
If you don't see it, here's part of the explanation, "It seems, according to scandal and the creation of a legend, that the artist hired to create that Wildcat logo for the University of Kentucky was Gay, and to serve a personal, private, agenda, he chose to include a man’s private parts in the mouth of the hardy UK Wildcat. "
But before that, they address Farrah Fawcett's famous poster They say that the word "sex" is spelled out in Farrah's curls. 1. I don't see it 2. I don't think they took the time or effort to get the curls fall 'just so' and probably most importantly 3. Now...stay with me here but, wouldn't it be sorta redundant in that poster? I mean, doesn't it kinda scream 'sex' anyway? How many young boys had their first "self fulfilling" experience to that poster simply because of the nipples??
--- Quote ---Have you an opinion of the Donald Duck ride from the OP link? Intentional or not?
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Not. I really think people have a little too much time on their hands and possibly aren't getting enough sex so they're seeing it everywhere.
Anne Bonney:
http://urbansemiotic.com/2009/04/28/my- ... cky-penis/
Ya know...now that I've gone thru some of the other stuff posted there, I'm not altogether sure that it's not satire. It's definitely given me my chuckle of the day. I mean, they're seeing 'wrinkled penises (peni?)' in Pepsi bottles/cans and 'pinched nipples' in orange juice containers?? Really? :eek:
Apparently, the ever-widening mouth is seen as sexually enticing you to drink and the bottle itself is the wrinkled penis.
Here are the new Pepsi logos. Notice how the logo’s white “mouth” changes style and shape to entice you into drinking?
And here we have the cap being the nipple on top of the breast/juice glass.
It seems the Tropicana re-design was supposed to suggest not just an orange, but also the juice inside the orange, and so — the experience of “squeezing” the screw cap was to imitate the squeezing of fresh orange juice.
Or, perhaps, that squeezing also invoked a little naughty nipple play as well.
Have I just been punked or did Poe's Law strike again?
BuzzKill:
It might be satire. All I was looking for was a copy of the image, and there it is. Even is the site is satire, the wildcat tongue controversy was real. They changed the logo after the old design was made an issue and now items with the old design are becoming collectible. Having said that, I don't recall anything about the artist being gay. I remember people joking he must be a UofL fan. The only local debate was over the intent to depict anything other than the cat's tongue - was it on purpose that it looked so much like something else?
Having once worked in an art department I would say it was intentional - as is all the stuff done at Disney.
With regard to the Farrah picture - you have a point. Of course it is about sex. No need to write the word in her golden locks. But this doesn't mean they didn't try to do just that. It's subliminal seduction pared with open seduction - seduction X 2 ; which might be why that poster was such a powerful hit with the boys.
Much of whats pointed out in the OP link qualifies as examples of subliminal seduction.
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