Winnie-the-Pooh banned in Poland?!

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I read this just the other day. A Polish town has banned using Winnie-the-Pooh as a mascot for a playground because he wears a shirt and no pants, and because he has no genitals and is therefore "sexually dubious", as in he-or "it" as they called him-is a hermaphrodite and should not be around children.

Are you kidding me?? He's not a human, he's a cartoon bear, in fact he's not even a real bear, he's a stuffed animal!
Are we supposed to make all stuffed animals anatomically correct, now? What about all the real animals that go around completely naked, are we going to have to put pants on them, too? And some real animals are hermaphrodites, what should we do, kill them in case children happen to see them??

Political correctness has gone utterly mad. Why must adults take all the fun, innocence and beauty out of things I loved as a kid and still do?

I know that people in Winnipeg are in a real uproar right now about this, since the REAL Winnie-the-Pooh was named after Winnipeg by a soldier who lived there. And because the real Winnie was a girl, it didn't surprise me much when I turned on the CBC News channel it showed someone making a sketch of Pooh Bear as a female with a more feminine-looking blouse or shirt on. But still no pants or "naughty parts".

I wonder how they'd react if Winnie were given genitalia?

They want pooh hung like a horse, or like John Holmes, to make him more obscene...in order to make him less obscene.

I don't understand that either.

Don't you mean Ron Jeremy?

Remember, Poland is a former Soviet-bloc country. Despite Lech Walensa, Pope John Paul II, and Krystophf Penderecki, modern day Russia, under Vladimir Putin, still has a large sphere of influence here.

They were both notoriously well endowed.

Do you live in Poland? You describe it as "here".

Sorry, I meant there. It's 1:00 AM in the morning, my ears are ringing, my the temperature in my bedroom is at 85 degrees (even with the air conditioning running, and the weatherman is calling for up to 5 inches of snow), and my anxiety is through the roof. I'd make a glass of chamomile tea, except I'm out, and I can't afford to buy it, or refill my prescription for Levemir and the accompanying syringes to take both my Levemir and Novolin-R until next Wednesday, when I get my social security check.

Does anyone know if "teddy bears" or similar are sold in Poland?

Are their children's animal toys all gender oriented?

If so, what a strange custom. I don't think that would go over well in many countries.

From what I could find on the internets, this only happened in a tiny village of some 7100 people. Probably some backwater town where radical catholics got elected to the city council. The prudish stuff is more likely to come from the church than from the commie history. And I don't think it's the fault of the Russians or Putin, they have clubs with naked chicks in Moscow so I don't think they are worried about a cartoon character's genitals. This is just people electing idiots in a small town.

That did seem odd, so I looked up the story (link below). A small town council stopped a playground from being named after Winnie-the-Pooh.

http://www.thenews.pl/1/9/Artykul/18823 ... olish-town

I think it very strange as sexuality is usually excluded from toys and animals are not normally required to follow human dress codes.

I heard once that Donald Duck was once banned from Finland for the same reason (not wearing any pants), but this is apparently an urban legend.

STOP IT! Misslizard, I had surgery on Monday and it really hurts now I cannot stop laughing.

Oh God in heaven, I can't tell you how much I laughed my head off over this!

You will now heal faster,laughter is the best medicine.
I know the pain of laughing after surgery,I made the mistake of watching a comedy the next day.Ouch.

If you put him in a priests collar, he'll be perfectly fine and legal for this town in Poland.