Monday, April 23, 2012

Merry Melodies - Cartoon Network

I stopped my channel surfing at 11 am on Merry Melodies today. It starts with a baby Yosemite Sam, wearing a diaper but complete with bright red mustache, etc. He gets up and starts singing a rap song about blowing his top whenever he gets angry- complete with those stupid hand gestures that rappers make. But that wasn't all. He had three backup singers - human females, dressed skimpily. Not as skimpily as if they were showgirls in Las Vegas, but pretty damn skimpy for a cartoon being shown, presumably to kids, at 11 o'clock in the morning. And of course they were thrusting their hips one way and their bosoms the other way as they sang.

That's disgusting at any age, but isn't Merry Melodies aimed at children - it's a show with Bugs, Daffy, Porky Pig, etc. Do they really need to learn at an early age how to look like a rapping fool, and of course, using women as sexual props which is what rappers do? (Along with professional cheerleaders at football games to name only one other business that continues to perpetuate the woman as eye candy theme.)

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