Did you know that there was crossdressing in kids cartoon long time ago?

[NorthwestRider]

Just look at Looney Tunes, you had Bugs Bunny ( a male rabbit) dressing up as a woman. In a 1940s/1950s kids cartoon. Guess they were lying that those times were super conservative and they believe in traditional family values lol

A. I knew that

B. I am looking at the 1940s/1950s in a different light now

[drsatan]

Buggs is in drag because he's a coward and trying to pull a fast one on elma, if that's how you view transgender people, then you are stuck in the 1940s and 50s just like those cartoons.

[NorthwestRider]

What the heck, showing the hypocrisies of people back then. I bet the conservative religious nuts would be triggered by these images and the 1950s were not what they thought lol

[drsatan]

Conservatives wouldn't be triggered by this. When this came out, these cartoons were aimed at adults, not children. The idea of a man in a dress being a coward or some sort of trap to lure stupid males has always existed and remains a problematic trope to this day.
Transgender people are not a joke or a trap, they are just people trying to live their lives as the opposite sex that they were born in.

[NorthwestRider]

People back then were not as prudish as they claimed to be

[drsatan]

People back then still enjoyed sex, people have always enjoyed sex. Societies views on transgender and homosexuals back then is the topic you brought up though, not how prudish some individuals back then were or weren't.
No thinks there was a time when the public would see a man in drag and scream in horror and shock. But they were seen as perverts and a joke. It was still illegal for men to be gay in many places back then.

This example you have given is like bringing up a cartoon from the 1930 of a racist stereotype of the time and said "people today always say black people are under represented in media, but look! Here is cartoon of black people way back in the 1930s!"

[NorthwestRider]

I thought they would banned crossdressing from TV shows back then. There is a popular movie from the 1950s with crossdressing. As much I disagree with the Muslims, they are more upfront about their bigotry. I do not think you would not find TV shows or movies with crossdressing in Saudi Arabia

[drsatan]

Buggs bunny wasn't shown on TV back in the 40s and 50s, it was shown on theatres to adults, not children. It would be shown along side movies like some like it hot.

And yes, 1950s America, where they would just put you in prison for being gay, was better than 2020s Saudi Arabia, where they will torture you and possibly execute you for being gay. But it's a bit like saying, it's better that the mafia are more friendly than the cartels, because the mafia will just cut off your arms and legs, but the cartel will cut off your head. But really, neither are ideal.

[NorthwestRider]

You figured out movie was Some Like It Hot without me saying the name of it. There was lesbian books in the 1950s as well. It is like lets throw lesbians in jail but write sexy stories about them lol

[JackSmy]

Did you know that even in the most restrictive times in Nazi Germany, there was a huge cross-dressing and closed-off, private sexually 'adventurous' group, doing really bizarre things?

[NorthwestRider]

Lol what the heck

[JackSmy]

@NorthwestRider Not Judging or saying anything against you!! Don't go there!!

www.centertheatregroup.org/.../

[Anonymous]

Men have been dressing as women for entertainment purposes for generations. This is nothing new. People only just now decided to get offended over it. 🙄

[NorthwestRider]

People were offended by crossdressing years ago

[DeeDeeDeVour]

I did but I never thought of it with any malice or impropriety because it's all for amusement's sake.

[NorthwestRider]

I am amazed because it was a 1950s cartoon

[humanearth]

can't forget about the Flintstones

[NorthwestRider]

Oh yes lol

[humanearth]

Do you remember this question

[ciitruskiwi]

Pretty much everyone who has seen looney tunes and bugs bunny knows this.

[reptocarl2]

Back then it was a joke. Today it’s reality. Big difference

[NorthwestRider]

The same really, I thought they would not allowed crossdressing in a kids cartoon or any crossdressing on TV back then lol

[reptocarl2]

Again it was viewed as a joke

[NorthwestRider]

If that keeps sleep at night lol

[Liam_Hayden]

Always as a joke, not as an example of something normal.

[Stan_Control_]

Subconsciously, i knew that.

[Cryptic-Game]

I knew it but do not support it.

[NorthwestRider]

I feel like it weird for a 1950s cartoon to show crossdressing