A Danish Kids TV Show About A Man With An Extra Long Schlong Has Some Parents Concerned
With the Democrats winning control of the Senate after Tuesday’s election, it might be time to consider the ramifications of living in a more liberal society. Take Denmark for example, they may have universal healthcare, but their public television network is launching a claymation cartoon for kids called John Dillermand about a creepy looking dude with a magical protracted penis that gets up to mischief. As we bid farewell to Caillou, are we ready to replace him with John Pee Pee’s telescoping prick “aimed at entertaining 4- to 8-year-olds,” or do we further descend into a totalitarian abyss?
According to The New York Post:
Denmark’s John Dillermand is a claymation cartoon man who, like anyone else, enjoys grilling, taking walks around town and eating ice cream. But some of those activities can be difficult for a man with a comically long schlong.
The new children’s show, launching on Danish public television network DR, is aimed at entertaining 4- to 8-year-olds, who producers think will get a kick out of watching the perils of having a protracted penis.
The show’s creator, Jacob Ley, a father of two young girls and a boy, claimed the show is about removing “shame” and “embarrassment” when it comes to our bodies, without sexualization. However, Denmark’s conservative crusaders have criticized the concept, the Guardian reported.
Politics aside, I just want to add that after watching the intro for this show I can say with confidence that if John Dillermand had been at the Capitol Building yesterday, he would have easily been able to knock each and every one of those hillbilly insurrectionists back to the Civil War with one fell swoop of his candy-striped cock. Think about it!
Obviously, there are plenty of questionable aspects about John Dillermand and you don’t have to be a “conservative crusader” to see them. Here’s what a gender researcher at Roskilde University had to say about it (via NYP):
“It’s perpetuating the standard idea of a patriarchal society and normalizing ‘locker room culture’ … that’s been used to excuse a lot of bad behavior from men. It’s meant to be funny — so it’s seen as harmless,” said Groes. “But it’s not. And we’re teaching this to our kids.”
Still, other Danish professional argued that John’s wandering peen is actually good for kids.
Family psychologist Erla Heinesen Højsted disagreed with the outcry: “John Dillermand talks to children and shares their way of thinking — and kids do find genitals funny,” she told the Guardian.
“The show depicts a man who is impulsive and not always in control, who makes mistakes — like kids do, but crucially, Dillermand always makes it right,” Højsted continued. “He takes responsibility for his actions. When a woman in the show tells him that he should keep his penis in his pants, for instance, he listens. Which is nice. He is accountable.”
She agreed that animators would do well to consider more “difference and diversity” in terms of body types, rather than just an outsize diller — Danish slang for penis. “But this is categorically not a show about sex. To pretend it is projects adult ideas on it,” she said.
In response to the criticism, DR, the network that airs the show, said that a show “about a woman with no control over her vagina” would be just as funny and that their only goal is to make children laugh. Well, they’ve made me laugh at least with that response. I’m trying to picture how American “conservative crusaders” would react if PBS told them to just “lighten up, man. It’s just a dick that looks like a candy cane chasing kids around attached to a grown man with a molester mustache who lives alone with his elderly mother and hangs out at the ice cream truck. Like, what is the big deal?” But they’ve got a point, Virginia’s Voracious Vag does sound like it would be fun for all ages!
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