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Saturday, June 19, 2010

Spongebob's "homosexuality." Palease.

I was visiting the amazing Wikipedia for some information about Spongebob. That show has really gone downhill, and I wanted to know if and when there was a change in writers. I stumbled upon a section on the Wikipedia page called "criticism" with discussion of the problems certain groups have with Spongebob's implied homosexuality.

Hold on. We're talking about the same Spongebob, right? The cartoon yellow kitchen sponge from a children's show who lives in the ocean inside a pineapple in a town called Bikini Bottom down the street from a talking starfish, a squid who plays clarinet, a crab with a whale for a daughter, and a squirrel who wears a space suit to breathe underwater? This is the Spongebob we're talking about, right?

Okay, just checking. Spongebob is one of those things that's meant to be taken for face value. If they tell you he lives in a pineapple under the sea, you just go with it. You don't ask how, you don't try to figure it out. You just go with it. This is the same for Spongebob's sexuality. If there isn't one, there isn't one. Stop looking for it.

The writers, the directors, the producers all said that they had no sexual orientation in mind for Spongebob because, after all, he's a cartoon kitchen sponge, but that they consider Spongebob to be asexual. Spongebob said himself in an episode that he can reproduce by budding. The creators of the show did not even consider it.

Some group called the We are Family Foundation used Spongebob in a video to promote gay rights and tolerance. These religious groups freaked out and deemed Spongebob inappropriate for children. In my opinion, these people are morons.

Kitchen sponges do not have sexual orientations, so shut up, turn off Nickelodeon, and go take a literature class somewhere. Literary analysis is all about looking for hidden sexual implications. Spongebob is for laughing at the antics of impossible characters as they catch jellyfish and blow bubbles. Please don't put sex into Spongebob.

Love,
Juliana

5 comments:

  1. I HATE IT WHEN PEOPLE TURN EVERYTHING INTO SOMETHING ABOUT HOMOSEXUALITY.

    GET A LIFE, LOSERS.

    That is all.

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  2. EXACTLY. It just took me like 1,000 words to say that xD

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  3. I remember having this conversation with both of you during English class sophomore year. You're both right. However, I've never been a fan of Spongebob. That show has been going downhill for a long time and I've only watched like 2 minutes each of a bunch of episodes while looking for something good on TV. Too bad there aren't any World Cup games today. :-(

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  4. We had this conversation in English? Wow, I really am out of original ideas haha. I forgot about that. And it has been going downhill. The new episodes are stupid.

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