The love that dare not show its face

You know what? I'm a big fan of traditional morality, but I mean that in its most positive sense.

That is to say that I think that, for example, marriage is a very feminism-compatible tradition. When a woman makes a man wait until there is a ring on the finger, she ensures that a compact is in place that any children resulting from this union are cared for together - the guy isn't free to disappear when baby comes along. By "traditional" love, I understand that a man must cherish a woman, and not treat her as a commodity, a consumer product to be used and disposed of along with the Burger King bag.

What I refuse to acknowledge as a traditional value is intolerance. Some bunny named Buster went to see a Lesbian couple in a PBS cartoon. Some fundamentalists are upset about this, and to me, this reaction is simple ugly heterosexism. Lesbian couples are real. They actually exist. What value is there in ensuring cartoon bunnies pretend they do not exist?

And Spongebob! I swear - these groups have decided to exceed the "outing" quotient of gossip columnists in The Advocate! Come on folks, we're talking about a talking sponge who has a wide-eyed infatuation for his job as a fry cook, and has a dopey friend who is a starfish. Setting aside that starfish and sponges diverged in the Precambrian (0.6 billion years ago) and have no reproductive possibilities at all, what kind of a loon factors sex into such childish innocence at all? Yes Spongebob sings "We are family." The point is... what exactly? That he'll migrate from "Village People" to hardcore stuff like "Frankie Goes to Hollywood?" The horror, the horror!

Latest word is that now Shrek 2 is gay (I'm assuming not the Shrek 1.0 iteration for some reason.)

Come on, already! We are talking about animated characters here folks! Even if we assume the worst and that Donkey is in possession of a three dollar bill and decorates the apartments of straight bachelors as a hobby, we are talking about animated characters! Even with the inclination, they all lack the anatomically correct characteristics to do anything about it!!

When people are starting to sound crazier than Monty Python's "She's a witch because she's a duck" formulation, you know it is time to grab a doubly-caffeinated cup full of sanity!