Re: College Prof Says "Hate" For Barney The Dinosaur Came From "Resistance To Homosexuality"

On 2024-11-21 07:55:39 +0000, anim8rfsk said:

 Which one of these idiots is supposedly a college professor?

There are LOTS of "ivory tower" morons in universities that don't have the first clue about life in the real world and dream up teh kind of utter garbage seen in the article below.  :-\

Ubiquitous <weberm@polaris.net> wrote:

A college professor claims that some of the hate against Barney the Dinosaur
is due to men rebelling against an alternate version of masculinity and being
homophobic.
 There have been multiple articles and documentaries on the topic of the
public backlash against the popular cartoon from the 1990s. These latest
statements were made on a new podcast episode in the series "Generation
Barney," which takes a look at the history of the show and its reception.
 "Understanding particularly why adult men didn't like Barney reveals a lot
about gender and power in our current society. There were women who didn't
like Barney, but the high-profile hate was really coming from men," podcast
host Sabrina Herrera says in the episode titled, "Love 2 Hate."
 "He offered up a different model for masculinity, even as a purple dinosaur
and not a human. This message about love, about nurturing, about looking
after others, that these are emotions and also sort of social practices and
responsibilities that in our culture are constructed and understood to be
sort of feminine and feminizing," Dr. Emily Contois, a media studies teacher
at the University of Tulsa, replied.
 "Barney could be understood as resisting that, pushing back against that,
offering a different model of sexuality and gender and size all coming
together. And so for some of these men who reacted very poorly to him, that
could be a piece of their reaction," the professor continued.
 Dr. Contois added, "A part of that white masculine sort of set of authorities
is also this incredible resistance to homosexuality."
 The "Barney & Friends" series was based on a friendly purple and green
Tyrannosaurus rex character and a cast of children who went on adventures,
enjoying songs, dances, and games that made learning fun. The show debuted in
1992 and was extremely popular with young children of that generation.
 Bob West, the original voice actor for Barney, recalled getting death threats
for playing the character. "There were certain things, certain messages that
people would send that were pretty threatening," he said during last week's
episode of the same podcast.
 "If you get a death threat from a middle school child who sends you an email,
then it doesn't make me feel bad for me. It makes me feel bad for them
because they're obviously going through something that's leading them [to]
act out this way," he went on, per People.
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