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Hail-NekoYasha — Please Explain This Anomaly
Published: 2007-05-28 06:53:49 +0000 UTC; Views: 158131; Favourites: 3234; Downloads: 970
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Is...is this a job for human rights activists or for PETA?Okay, this is something that has bothered me for years, and in all sorts of medium.
So I'm furnishing my little Animal Crossing cottage, right? But I don't know if I'm comfortable with keeping a caged canary (which is a furniture item) in the window when my next-door neighbor is a talking, four-foot-tall robin.
It's the same thing in what was one of my favorite childrens's show, Arthur , too. He's got a little pet dog, but one of his best friends is also a dog. And it happens again with Goofy and Pluto of the Disney universe; both are dogs, but they live in different castes of domestic hierarchy. What is this?
And when you encounter this sort of thing at such a young age, it's...I don't know, it's just crippling.
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I seriously have never thought about that before.
aunbu. my miiiiind D:
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yep the anthro world is confusing.
makes me wonder in spongebob what the hell they use for krabby patties
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omygosh.
This bothered me for so long too XD
especially the Arthur case..
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Wow, I was wondering the same thing..
When I put the bird in the cottage, I was wondering why there was another bird as my neighbor!
But I agree, there should be some kind of movie or game where your an animal, and your friend is a human, but your have a human as a pet too! Yeah!
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You think too hard about things. XD Sounds like me.
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yes well disney is deceiving - when i found out that the D was actually not in fact a G, it blew my mind.
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Hey, I thought the same thing! I was always trying to pronounce it "Gisney" for YEARS! Then I learned in the 5th grade... it was a D. But it always puzzled me about how they called it Disney, but it was spelt Gisney... now, at least, I figured out that mystery of life!
Gisney can be so confusing...
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I'm glad that I'm not the only one who found that weird.
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I think Purple Pussy depicted this paradox...Purple's head blew up trying to figure it out. I hope you fare better!
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Your petty replies make me non-ready!
I say it's the prove of evolution! SEE! Disney really was an athiest! DX EVIL!
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<3
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cool XD ... your picture it is funny !!!!!!!!
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since when do you have pockets in your shirt?
THIS IS AN OUTRAGE.
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I just realised how right taht is... or wrong... hold on I need to rethink that... you right disny is wrong... I think... oh well I'm sure you know what I mean.
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I hope.... 0-o
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This has bothered me so much throughout my life D8;; I'm glad that other people noticed this too...
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Wow. Thats like the pokemon thing:
They all say their OWN names, which should make it its own language, but all the other pokemon can understand it just fine. How can Pikachu understand what Raichu says?
How can Goofy live knowing hes walking a domesticated lower form of his kind?
Well..now they sound totally different. But, I think you got it.
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Oh, wow. XD I never noticed till now. You're completly right, that is odd.
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Dude, my brother and I were just talking about this yesterday!
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Never bothered me
Goofy is smart enough to talk and wear pants, Pluto isn't. Hence Pluto fits into the "pet" roll while Goofy is a "friend."
Course, that leaves Scooby Doo and Doonald Duck in certain a bit of a nebulous situation, but them's the breaks.
And (just to furthur break brains) if the dog IS considered the same as the ones in the window, and it brought you the leash and asked for walkies, is it still abuse, or just kinky?
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I've always wondered about these subjects. It's weird when animals have, well, animals as pets.
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Quite the paradox 0.o
this is one of those questions better left un-answered
(that is what the gov. would say anyway)
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If you are wearing clothes, your the dominating figure or character "Mickey". Pluto is not... So that's why he is Mickeys pet... Disneys answer from a radio station I heard...
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OH NO...a new slave trade...
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I think it has to do with level of self awareness. Would an android be pissed that I used a microwave?
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You know, I honestly never noticed. It is a little strange, now that you point it out. >>
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I once was told a Disney employee explained it as such: if they wear clothes, they're like people. If they don't like, they're like domesticated animals.
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This is so true!! I've never understood it either.
A very nice, subtle way of doing things. I like it, especially those dogs' faces.
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lol!The looks on their faces are awesome!XD
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And when you are an animal-creature, in a animal-creatures world... is it cannibalism to eat meat? I think one of Mikey's friend makes a joke about it in one of their older stories.
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I'm so happy that I'm not the only one who noticed this!! Great comic.
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I never thought about the Animal Crossing thing.But I did always think about Goofy and Pluto and Arthur and Pal...
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it's simple, really. antropomorphic animals are just stand-ins for people. bugs bunny is a human with long ears. Us humans like to put our faces on everything, and use other animals to represent characteristics in ourselves. so goofy is a human in dog form while pluto is just a dog.
...okay, so it's still weird.. and maybe not so simple.
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Feh...furries encounter the same moral-justice things with stuff like that. We just learn to ignore it. There's a big difference between anthropomorphic animals and feral animals.
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I've noticed that too: like how you can catch a frog and might have one living in your town in Animal Crossing Wild World.
Heheh, good idea though.
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And here I thought I was the only one who wondered about stuff like that.
My personal explanation is that they're not pets, they're mentally disabled animals that the normal, more intelligent animals kindly adopt to love and take care of. They just call them "pets" because that word isn't used for anything else in their universe.
I've given this way too much thought.
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Splits in cartoon evolution. While both are the same (or similar) species, one evolved along the line to becoming a giant sentient humanoid one, while the other went along the line of domesticated normal sized not considered sentient or humanoid one
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