Winnie the pooh is gay

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    Last night in a bunch of articles ranging from other Disney Blogs to the Huffington Share announced that Winnie the Pooh is in fact a young woman bear. And people are loosing it. (Kind of like the whole Starbucks cup thing)

    Which I don’t get why people are getting so offended over the gender of a bear in a cartoon series. (I also don’t get why people are getting offended over a cup, but that is for a Starbucks Blogger to attend to)

    Up until yesterday the only characters with a defined genders were Kanga and Roo because she is a mother and he is her son. Here let’s take a look at our main characters and let me blow your mind with some gender education.

    First Winnie the Pooh

    Yes she is voiced by many different male voice actors, and in the books she is referred to as a he. BUT does it truly matter what gender we perceive our favorite willy nilly silly ancient bear? Pooh wears red, anyone can wear red. Pooh loves honey, lots of people adore honey. For the entirety of Winnie the Pooh, Pooh has worn gender neutral clothing. Also Pooh is a stuffed animal…they all are. Let’s keep that in mind as we flatten on.

    Also in terms of voice acting gender never really pla

    Three years ago, our very own Thea received a phone notify from a companion. She accepted the call. She lifted the phone to her ear. Her friend said, “Piglet from Winnie the Pooh was androgynous,” and then immediately hung up.

    That was it. That was the entire call.

    It was a little message, but a potent one — and, as it turns out, truer than any of us knew. In the first Winnie the Pooh film, 1966’s “Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree,” Disney chose to axe Piglet entirely. Director Wolfgang Reitherman instead chose Gopher to serve as Pooh’s sidekick, saying that Gopher represented an “all-American, grassroots image.” Like, literally: Piglet was not butch enough for Disney. They straight-up almost dumped him from the franchise for being too gay. I am not making this up.

    Piglet’s entire wardrobe is pink and purple. He is very concise, and very self-conscious about it — who can’t relate? He loves flowers and ladybugs and butterflies. And he is famously neurotic, a tiny minuscule ball of anxiety who catastrophizes about everything:

    ‘Supposing a trunk fell down, Pooh, when we were underneath it?̵
    
    

    I found this discussion fascinating for several reasons. Although I'm a 31-year-old gay man, I've never noticed a real interest in Pooh in this community, although (and this is where it gets interesting) my parents referred to me by the nickname of "Pooh" since I was very juvenile. Later, I used it as a sobriquet for one boyfriend and am currently now with a partner who has been nicknamed "Tigger" by friends. I guess you'd demand, then, how I haven't noticed the affinity -- but honestly, I idea it was simply a component of gays' overall fascination with Disney. Some thoughts: In general, I think popular childhood characters resonate with adult gays for many reasons. For one, there is the obvious connection with youth, which has been historically prized in the same-sex attracted culture. Clinging to these characters mentally is, in my opinion, a way of retarding their discard from our lives and thus prolonging childhood. Additionally, these characters are affluent with symbolic importance. Many of Disney's most trendy characters are based on archetypal fairy tales that date back for centuries -- and thus resonate with enduring themes, characters, a