Re: People unclear on the subject

Joseph Nebus wrote:

> 	Thoroughgoing diversion: while the bulls-with-udders are really, 
> really creepy and wrong in 'Barnyard', not least because the udders look

> like horrible suction-cup stick-ons to an already questionable design of

> the characters, they aren't a priori any more misplaced than pouches on 
> male kangaroos.  But cartoonists and animators have been getting away
> with *that* casual hermaphroditism since whenever the first kangaroo was

> put in a cartoon.  Why does that fly, other than the general usefulness 
> for the cartoon character pouch-of-holding effect?  
> 

	I would guess because the number of people aware that the pouch is a 
***-limited characteristic is an order of magnitude lower than those 
aware that udders are ***-limited characteristics.




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