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Hail-NekoYasha ā Please Explain This Anomaly
Published: 2007-05-28 06:53:49 +0000 UTC; Views: 158118; 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 though those guys were people in animal costumes o.0*brainsnap*
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Ah. I have pondered about this ordeal for quite awhile. :3
*walks away*
YES! I'M NOT THE ONLY ONE! I TOLD YOU I WASN'T CRAZEH!!!! >:0
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I've lost sleep over this one before.
I don't even know how to deal...
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Hahah! I never thought about that in AC, but now I'll never be able to put up a Bird Cage again! And I remember that in Arthur, it always nagged at me too.
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Less evolved variations, like humans and apes, caged birds and talking four-foot-tall robins.
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Hum. Very true. It doesn't seem they expect kids to think these rational thoughts up thus they go into games. Yay for the industry - believing and thus encourging children to be idiots.
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I also have the caged canary and one of my friends is a talking bird as well.
Awesome job.
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games are raciest when it comes to the animal kingdom. They just weren't born with the right fur/feather coloring ><
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Talk about an akward situation.
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Oh my gosh! I feel the same way! Animal Crossing, Disney, Pokemon, and other stuff like that contradicts itself that way a lot!
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lol Why rack your brain about it? Its only fiction. XD
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i didnt really see any point on debating with this,this Anomaly
but everyone around me, my family and friends are like, "WTF IS GOOFY"
-"hes a dog"
"but pluto's a dog so Goofy cant be one, he's even got these black hands that he wears gloves over so you can see his hands"
-"he's a dog D=
A GIANT walking talking mouse feeds pluto and takes him for walkies, what do you think of that!"
"yeah but we knowwww he's a mouse....BUT WHAT IS GOOFY!!??"
-"hes a dOG!!..ARRGGHH"
"UUOOOFFFF"
-"BLARGGG"
"KNFERSHKLE" ------- its a cartoon DĀ¦
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or how Franklin that stupid turtle went into his own shell and had a freakin refrigerator and bed and table and AUGH.
I just don't understand.
.....
okay, so it wasn't relevant, but it's something to think about.
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I always thought the same thing for every thing you mentioned!
Seriously, "I love my dog. 
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When I was a kid, I mulled this over myself. The only reason I could come up with is that cartoons are racists. Since Goofy and Pluto are different types of dogs...
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How do you know that those shows aren't just sending subliminal messages that its ok to own your own species as pets, like slavery?
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my mom and i go over this time and time again when we watch arthur or house of mouse
we're like "But...why would Minnie have a pet cat? Why does Mickey have a pet dog when he has Goofy?"
we do it especially with arthur, it drives us crazy @_@
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that. is . just. too. funny!!!
hahaha loved it BRILLIANT I TELL YOU!
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I had thought about that too quite a few times. Funny that others would mention it too.
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I never actualy thought about this before.
It exemplifies all the flaws of society, how we just accept them until they are pointed out.
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Hmm... maybe the artists thought that seeing both roles filled by animals would be less traumetizing for wee tots than seeing the human/pet ideal reversed.
Or, y'know, animals are just adorable and filling both roles with 'em is good marketing?
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Dude, I was just thinking the same thing with Disney and Arthur characters. I always wondered what the hell was up with animals having animals for pets... š: 0 ā©: 0
Eh, maybe they were up a step in evolution?
Interesting question. Chalk it up to starving character designers that had more on the mind at the time than grand animal rights conspiracies!
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Yeah, I have been thinking about how in stuff with anthros there are still wild animals and stuff. Maybe it's like how humans supposedly evolved from monkeys, but there still are monkeys around...I dunno.
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Lol. Yeah, I always thought that was an odd thing. I chose not to dwell on it too much though cause in the end it just gave me a headache. @_@
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In my town Amelia has that caged canary item, and she's a bird. So I guess it's okay.....maybe.
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I have always wondering that too and another thing thats be botherin me is why do the Disney chars wear gloves and what ever happen to maxes mama.
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I've always been thinking the same thing o.o;
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i thoght goofy was some kind of goat or that is what he was
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LMAO i love this- the Goofy- Pluto thing always plagued me too....and i was not aware you could get a canary in animal crossing. That is just wierd.
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Because... uh... um... er...
You've got me. D:
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I've questioned this my whole life. In the Comics and show, Sonic has a dog too.
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harhar, sounds like Wicked to me.
Animals and animals! one can talk, one can't - though in the disney situation, i can't help but think Pluto could easily have outwitted them all.
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Yet they still had equal employment opportunities at Disney studios: Pluto provided laughs at the expense of his own personal health just as much as Goofy.
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oh, thought of another one. How come pluto is smaller than mickey, a DOG is smaller than a MOUSE. And where does all the beef in Pokemon come from anyway?
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One more weird thing. (for now) In the redwall books, are they all human sized, cuz in real life a badger could not squish a fox. and a mouse would be eaten by a ferret. and whats up with all the shews?
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XD And then there's when one of the birds from animal crossing will have a birdcage.
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My theory is that it's like Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles or something.
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..or you could just grow-up not really noticing these things (cuz you're stupid or something...not like me at all..... <_____<..)
anywho...to be honest, i've never really thought of it that way. now that you've got me thinking (oh noes), you make a very valid point. however, the whole we're-the-superior-species-cuz-we-talk-yo comes into play here, and i guess this is what the creators of these oddities keep in mind.
...that and it's easier keeping little canaries, little puppies, and Pluto-sized doggies. imagine owning a four-foot-tall robin...or a Goofy....
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I wonder about that kind of thing everyday. OH OH OH!!!!! Heres another stumper. Why on Tom and Jerry did the dog sometimes talk, and Tom sometimes talked, but Jerry never, and I mean never, ever said anything. He laughed at Tom and the dog's pain, but never talked.
Never
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Now that I actually stop and think about it... it's kinda messed up.
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Considering that I barely even have half a brain, I would never have thought of this, but OH MY FREAKING GAWD, THIS MAKES SENSE NOW.
Somehow.
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That's like in the Sonic The Hedgehog comics, Sonic has a dog o_O
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