Girls' spa day today! We went to a public bath hot springs at the next station and had a good long soak in different indoor and outdoor tubs. Take your pick of water temperature, a carbonated bath, a jet bath, a bubbly bath and an electric massage bath. Everyone "wears" the same "uniform," so it was kind of funny when Haru grabbed some lady's hand and attempted to drag her off, jabbering all the way. Mommy and I pointed out that she was kidnapping the wrong person. After the baths, Haru got to try out "doctor fish" that eat dead skin off your feet. I hope the shrieks of delight did not bother anyone. LOL
Month: March 2021
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Had a challenging series of events to deal with this morning to get somebunny to day care on time... She had to do a puzzle three times before breakfast and was not happy that her toasted croissant did not have the upper and lower halves properly attached but ate it all anyway plus apple and ham and then wanted her hair done like Frozen's Elsa and then had to take a poop (all the while reciting that five comes after six after six is seven and so on and I wanna say it myself so Gramma don't say it) and then get the teeth brushed and select two flags to take along and finally get shoes and coat on and ride down the elevator. We are just a bit behind schedule, but then meet the very nice cleaning lady who is on her last day at this job and who has been very nice to somebunny. Just a minute, she says, I want to give you something, and she takes the enameled cross off of her phone and gives it to Haru. There are some things that you just have to take time for. Sniff.
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Racist Cartoons?
I have been trying to see any racism in Heckle and Jeckle, two cartoon Magpies. One speaks with a Brooklyn accent and the other with an English accent. I saw nothing racist, and found the plots of the cartoons rather boring, with the two just playing tricks on other characters on the screen. It is kind of like Tom and Jerry cartoons, which are basically Tom chasing Jerry and never catching him.
Honestly, if anyone can help me out here, I would appreciate it. Exactly what is racist about Heckle and Jeckle? The content? The color of the birds? Come to think of it, what color is Mickey Mouse, or Mighty Mouse? Is Daffy Duck now in bad taste because his plumage is black? Will he be outlawed because of his lisp?
I just watched "All this and Rabbit Stew." Rather than Elmer Fudd, Bug's pursuer is a black person. Bugs did not discriminate, and tormented the Black fellow just as much as he ever tormented Elmer. But wait... Should Elmer Fudd not also be banned as mockery of people with speech impediments? Or how about Porky Pig for his stuttering? There is really no end to the censorship, since everyone can find something to be offended by. If you don't like it, don't watch it. Bugs Bunny's "Hillbilly Hare" depicts a couple of white hicks, and no one has any trouble with that at all.
And now they are after Pepe LePew as a promoter of rape culture? How many people have been inspired to commit this particular crime after watching Pepe?
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Racist Dr. Seuss?
Six Dr. Seuss books will no longer be published. I have three of the Dr. Seuss banned books - If I Ran the Zoo, On Beyond Zebra and To Think that I Saw it on Mulberry Street. I always loved the Zebra book, and I got the other two off of eBay a couple of years ago when all this fuss started. The six "problematic" books can't be sold on eBay anymore and were not available on Amazon, either. I checked out the other three that I don't own on You Tube and am scratching my head about McEllicot's Pool, The Cat's Quizzer and Scrambled Eggs Super. McEllicot's Pool has a picture of an Eskimo (I suppose we are not allowed to say that anymore) and a Hispanic person, I think, but I do not consider them derogatory or racist. The Cat's Quizzer has a picture of a supposed Japanese person and another of the Cat eating with chopsticks, but that's about it. I don't know what the problem is with Scrambled Eggs Super, unless it is some people up north dressed in warm clothes. Or could it be objections to the collecting of eggs of non existent rare birds? I did not see anything that would be so repulsive or traumatic to a child as to force the books out of print.What am I to conclude from this "wokeness?" Do I have to toss the collection of Japanese girls' festival dolls into the trash and replace them with dolls that are move inclusive of other races? They have Asian features... Do I have to change the faces to more nonracial, generic ones? Things are out of hand, folks.I am also seeing a disturbing journalistic tendency. Stories are circulated with incomplete information. A crime has been committed, but we are not provided with any evidence as to the nature of the crime. The Seuss books are accused of being bad, but the accusers will not clearly state the nature of the accusations. If there are problem pictures, please state the case and point them out clearly. This is different from perpetuating racism. I recently saw another story on Yahoo "News" that stated a racial slur had been written on the car of a person of Asian descent, but in the picture of the damaged car, whatever was written there was blurred out. How are we even to know that a crime was committed at all? We just have to take the so-called journalist's word for it. We are also no longer allowed to know the race of the perpetrator of the crime, even though it is obvious from security films. Why all the fear of presenting the facts for what they are?The six Seuss books are supposedly guilty of racism, but the whoever is deciding that the books need to be withdrawn needs to clarify the charges being made. It is an incomplete story. I am still seriously looking for racism in these books. I found this in one article. "In The Cat's Quizzer the Japanese character is referred to as a 'Japanese'..." What else is he supposed to be referred to as?? Why is this a problem?? "In 'And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street,' an Asian person is portrayed wearing a conical hat, holding chopsticks, and eating from a bowl." Chopsticks and bowls are now racist?? McElligot's contains the word Eskimo, so it's cancelled. I dragged out my copy of On Beyond Zebra, and cannot for the life of me figure out the problem, unless one objects to exotic fellows on camels. I don't.
