Through the medium of Netflix, we're getting a bunch of disks of classic Warner Brothers cartoons. You know, stuff like Loony Toons and Merrie Melodies. The first disk was all about Bugs Bunny, the second a bunch of Daffy Duck and Porky Pig ones.
The gay and transgendered subtext was not subtle. I know this isn't a particular relevation to a lot of people, but . . . it's been years, since I was a child, since I saw these things. Bugs Bunny cross dresses in about half of them. In about a third of them, he kisses Elmer Fudd on the mouth. At one point Daffy leaps into Porky's arms and proposes. Daffy also cross dresses in at least one of the cartoons. And this is the second disk!
No, seriously, it's not subtle. It's really out there, very obvious. It makes me wonder how they were initially received. Oh, I know they were well-loved. But did this gay and transgendered stuff just go over people's heads? Did they just not see it? Or did they know it and there was a continent wide conspiracy of silence not to mention how risque these cartoons were, using the anthropomorphic animals as an excuse to ignore the clear transgenderism that is rampant through these cartoons?
The other thing that I really noticed is that the animation is really good, hehe. Often deeply surreal, to the extent that "what were they smoking" references seemed to come every eight minutes or so. But they're also sharp and funny in that way that Warner Brothers did so well. They're great stuff!
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