By John Mack Freeman
In this week’s edition of ridiculous reasons to censor something, the town of Tuszyn in central Poland has banned Winnie the Pooh for his non-standard sexuality. Yes, that’s right. The cartoon bear beloved by generations for his love of honey has placed a Polish town in a sexual quandary when naming a local park after Winnie the Pooh’s creator. Via PinkNews:
“The problem with that bear is it doesn’t have a complete wardrobe.
“It is half naked which is wholly inappropriate for children.”
Another councillor interjected: “It doesn’t wear underpants because it doesn’t have a sex. It’s a hermaphrodite.”
Councillor Hanna Jachimska then began to criticize author AA Milne.
She said: “This is very disturbing but can you imagine! The author was over 60 and cut [Pooh’s] testicles off with a razor blade because he had a problem with his identity.”
It was eventually decided that Polish bear Uszatek would be a less controversial choice, because he wears trousers.
I was a kid not long ago and clearly remember watching all those cartoons. Believe me, we did not even notice he was half naked. That was never important to us, we never paid any attention to that.
Banning you from decision making would be more appropriate solution than bannin our favorite cartoon.