Shrek 2 is gay!

I guess I have a very narrow view of what gay is, or maybe I just live in a world completely different from others. I would never that even thought that Shrek or Shrek 2 had any gay overtones to them. When I watch movies such as this, it never even occurs to me. To get my attention in a movie to demonstrate that it’s got a gay character in it, you pretty much have to kiss and do the sex thing to get my attention. Suggestive eye contact isn’t enough for me because to me, that could simply imply, “Wow! I love your hair!”

I think what concerns me more than Shrek 2 having anything in it that could possibly be construed as “gay content” or a “gay character”, is the fact that there are people out there who are so super sensitive to anything gay (as though it’s some disease), they will make it gay, even if it isn’t. Does that qualify for some sort of phobia?

At any rate, now I have to see Shrek 2 to see what it’s all about. I saw the first one (by mistake I might add), and never went to see the sequel.

Shrek 2 is the latest animated film title to be “outed” by Christian fundamentalists in the U.S.

On its website the Traditional Values Coalition is warning parents about the cross-dressing and transgender themes contained in the hit DreamWorks feature, now on DVD.

“Shrek 2 is billed as harmless entertainment but contains subtle sexual messages,” says the coalition, which describes itself as a grassroots inter-denominational lobby with more than 43,000 member churches.

“Parents who are thinking about taking their children to see Shrek 2 may wish to consider the following.”

The article then proceeds to describe one of the characters, an “evil” bartender (voiced by Larry King) who is a male-to-female transgender in transition and who expresses a sexual desire for Prince Charming.

In another identified scene, Shrek and Donkey need rescuing from a dungeon by Pinocchio and his nose, which is made to extend as an escape bridge by getting the wooden boy to lie about not wearing women’s underwear. (source)

Moral of the story: People with long noses are evil. Women’s underwear is evil. People with long noses who actually wear women’s underwear are the Spawn of Satan (especially if that person happens to be transgendered). I’m sure somewhere in the Bible, it says so.