Let me be very clear about one thing, I am not anti-dog. However, I draw the line at redefining traditional pet relationships to include dog dominant ones.
I usually shy away from complaining about a piece of entertainment. My philosophy is that if I see something I don’t like I just ignore it and move on. I find what I do like, and focus on that. I recognize that not every piece of literature, music, or film is for everyone. There are variances in taste and I accept that. What I cannot accept however, is blatant propaganda hidden (not well) in children’s programming. I’m an adult, I’ve had the time to develop barriers against what’s dark in the world, my three year old son has not. Keep reading and I’ll explain.
Having a toddler means that the ratio of animated movies to non-animated movies I see leans pretty heavily to the former. Some, like most Pixar films, are stellar, some are downright horrible, but most have at least something I can gravitate to, even if it’s just a single scene or character. Even when they are boring they have a virtue that I adore, they are wholesome. I can comfortably walk my boy into a theater and sit him down, safe in the knowledge that his innocence is protected from the world for at least a couple of hours. The movies are a safe place to escape all of the nastiness outside. Which is why I was astonished when I took him last night to see “Mr. Peabody and Sherman.”
It’s no secret, to anyone paying attention that traditional morality has been in steady decline over recent decades. So I went to the theater comfortable in the knowledge that the movie we would see was based on a cartoon roughly 50 years old. In addition, I could think of nothing more wholesome than a story of a boy and his dog.
I couldn’t have been more wrong.
this dog has an appropriate amount of fear in his eyes.
The movie begins innocently enough; Peabody and Sherman seem to have a loving relationship, which should be expected from that of a boy and his dog, no harm yet. But in a few short moments I came to a stunning realization. As I sat in the darkened theater with my son, eating popcorn and red vines it struck me… Sherman didn’t adopt Mr. Peabody, Mr. Peabody adopted Sherman. Hold the dog-gone phone! This movie is nothing but an overt message of dog equality.
As the movie continues it becomes clear that not only has Mr. Peabody created a situation wherein he is superior to one young boy, but he claims to be superior to every other being on Earth. His impact on culture is palpable and he even takes it upon himself to meddle in time itself.
This results in Peabody, Sherman, and Penny (an innocent and delightful little girl) ending up in ancient Egypt where Peabody impersonates the Egyptian god Anubis in order to facilitate dominion over the human population to steal a child from them, a child who was legally theirs to sacrifice by way of juvenile marriage. His disregard for human moral superiority is so massive, it spans epochs.
But Mr. Peabody isn’t content to keep his seat as the smartest of all beings and to have equality with human beings, oh no, he embarks on an incredibly subtle campaign to convert other human beings into dogs. It’s so subtle in fact, that you don’t even know what he’s doing until the end when Sherman and a handful of adult humans, who should know better, profess to authorities that they are dogs as well.
Portrait of a modern family, if we don’t take action now!
The only redeeming character in the entire affair was Ms. Grunion, a Children’s Services agent who valiantly to rescue Sherman from this highly inappropriate living situation but is stifled at every turn by “accepting” humans who ultimately reveal themselves as human-to-dog-trans-species individuals.
And just when I thought things couldn’t get any worse, George Washington arrives from the past to recite a portion of the Constitution. His recitation goes as follows: “We hold these truths to be self evident, that all men AND SOME DOGS, are created equal.
We’re already singing the nation anthem in other languages, why not amend the CONSTITUTION too!
A book I once read says that men have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over every living thing that moves on the earth, and I don’t know about you, but the author of that book hasn’t been wrong about anything else.
The animation is great, and the overarching story is entertaining, so much so, that a less discerning viewer might not even notice the subliminal messages that lie underneath. Perhaps if the movie had been live action instead of animated, the threat could be more plainly seen. If someone came to my door to tell me that dogs should be equal, or even superior, to human beings I wouldn’t invite them in and I certainly wouldn’t pay them. Yet I was duped by cartoonish imagery into supporting this message by way of purchasing tickets. I’ve sacrificed a piece of my livelihood to evil, and more importantly, a piece of my son’s innocence.
If all of this sounds like malarkey, or like I’ve made it up out of whole cloth, stringing together very loose and spindly threads with my own personal biases, well that further proves the maliciousness and subtlety of the dog-equalists attacks.
To those of you who think that the Dog Equality Movement isn’t a real threat, I ask only that you watch this video of a young person in the midst of a human-to-dog-trans-species transformation. Thankfully, they don’t appear to have undergone any species reassignment surgery as of yet, so there is still hope.
Sadly, this next poor child is beyond hope. Her parents, misguided by contemporary ideas to “allow their child to be who they are” have completed species reassignment at the child’s request. You’ll notice they even address her as a dog. Some of the comments indicate a belief that the “dog” is being abused, I agree.
Upon researching the movie I found that it was made by none other than Rob Minkoff. Minkoff is the nefarious source of other such animal equality propaganda as “Stuart Little” and “Stuart Little 2.” He also worked on “The Lion King” which depicts a world entirely devoid of human beings where the animals themselves reign as kings. Noticing a trend here?
What further proof do you need that he’s an animal equality shill than the below picture of Minkoff making buddy-buddy with a dog wearing sunglasses.
Who’s walking whom here?!
If you haven’t seen the movie yet, don’t! If you’ve already bought tickets, return them. Take whatever money you intended on spending and put it toward buying a muzzle for your dog, or donate it to a kill shelter. Because, let me be clear, the war for our children’s hearts and minds is very real and I assure you, the dogs aren’t playing nice.