I realize that picking on Fox News for their lack of journalistic integrity is like picking on the fat kid at camp because he takes a second helping at dinner, but this is just too much.
In reporting today that Marge Simpson will grace the cover of Playboy Magazine and feature in a pictoral in November (yes, really), Fox goes on to list a number of other cartoon ladies Playboy is "considering" for a similar treatment, including Wilma Flintstone, Scooby Doo's Daphne, and Betty Boop.
Two others that you might find interesting:
Aladdin's Princess Jasmine: "There is some question about Princess Jasmine's age, but once they find a valid birth certificate, this one is a go." Seriously? A birth certificate comment? Orly Taitz would be proud. This, to say nothing of the racial overtones.
Beauty and the Beast's Princess Belle: "Playboy has offered to let Belle move into the mansion with Hef, but it reminds her too much of her time trapped in the castle with "The Beast," and is hedging (sic)."
While this article is clearly meant as a spoof and a Friday puff piece, it's shocking on several levels. First, it glorifies Playboy's forray into cartoon porn, shameful in its own right.
But let's take this a step further. The Simpsons is a cartoon with an adult audience, and you can at least argue that featuring Marge Simpson plays to that audience. But focusing on the Disney princesses and characters from children's shows like The Flintstones and Scooby Doo?
In a world where sex slavery, human trafficking, and child pornography and sex abuse are very real, this sort of line blurring by a major American "news" organization simply cannot be permitted.
As if you needed another reason to change the channel.
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