Child Friendly

I don't know why Bro America is upset about preteen girls finding boys attractive I mean there are many times in family movies where preteen/young teenage boys find girls attractive and many times they have crushes on a teen or adult who are too old for them

But God forbid if a preteen/young teen girl gets a crush on a boy in a family film even if it is just a brief moment

I swear these are the same type of people who tell girls to cover their shoulders cause it distracts boys not realizing boys get distracted by pretty much anything

@AmericanButterfly Isn't it the usual thing of fathers defending their daughters? You know, a father won't accept his daughter's new boyfriend, unless the boyfriend can defeat the father in combat? On the other hand, if a son gets a girlfriend, the old man will just congratulate the son.

@AmericanButterfly
Because in Bro America's experience, any girl who starts to think about boys is likely to find herself pregnant soon afterwards. I mean, it's not like sex ed is an option, right? (gasp)

@BrotherNetherlands85 am sure bro America knows about where babies come from

Though am pretty sure bro England told him

@AmericanButterfly And as we all know the English are experts at sex education.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zRD0-7NSXd8

I don't really understand what about periods and girls being attracted to boys is hurting preteens watching it?? Either the children already have periods or they're going to start in a few years and it's going to happen TO THEM, and attraction to the opposite sex is both heterosexual and something that preteens already are feelings in some capacity (i, for one had a crush in preschool (7) or kindergarten (4-6)).



Oh, i forgot. Americans are afraid of sex ed!

@Sisu sadly in many states sex ed is just

I had barely heard about this movie, and nothing about any controversy. However I also know how my fellow Americans love to throw a fit over nothing, so I'm far from surprised.

As an American, I would like to apologize to the rest of the world for being a nation comprised of about 70% idiocy.

Any other nation want to adopt me? I'm housebroken, and don't waste my time trying to tell other people how to live their lives.

@Tarmaque

I think you'd be welcome in any Nordic country, if you'd like to give it a try?
Some of our neighbours are less welcoming to immigrants then others, but I don't think anyone has a problem with housebroken Americans.

@Nisse_Hult Why thank you, Nisse! I'll pack my shoes and my other shirt and be right over.

American culture is based on moral and sexual repression, from the Pilgrims(Puritans) to the Mormons...

Monty Python's Lumberjack Song is over 50 years old, and somehow themes like crossdressing, having the world's biggest penis and joining satanic cults are still taboo for most people...

Why can't we just live and let live? If someone likes doing something that's not harming anyone, can we just let them?

@ImportViking Of course you're right and too many people here try to demand we self censor.

Apparently one guy (in Mexico?) has been stretching his foreskin* hoping to enlarge his penis but it weighs so much he's mostly disabled by the weight. He keeps it bandaged but maybe that's just for protection. If he has manipulated it to increase the size I have to wonder what the point is since it appears to be unusable for, well, anyone. But who am I to judge? I could argue it is hurting the owner but no one is hurt by discussing it.

Then there's Satan- yeah, people here can lose their mind over that and then refuse to believe Satan as the devil as Satan and his hellfires are non-canonical. Satan isn't even the guy they're talking about from the Bible when they claim he's canonical.

And then bathroom bills, transphobia and on and on … yeah, it's all going to hell in a handbasket over here and a lot of us just want that handbasket back and the bringers to hell to just keep going … maybe to their fabricated hell. There's real things to worry about but apparently not in this country.

* According to "people" brought in to evaluate penis size so "they" claim it doesn't qualify. It's been awhile since I read about it and watched an insufficiently informative video so I don't recall the details … like who was judging it's size, weight and source of the size

@ImportViking That's seriously 50 years old!!!

I've always found it funny how the United States are comfortable with war, violence, horror and crime, but sexuality make them* awkward.

*Of course not everybody, but the moral minority which likes to claim its the moral majority.

@Torbk I'm not! The only horror I like is podcasts where I can control it.

Plenty of people like sex as a sales tool but the women have to be perfect.

The Moral Majority is Neither tried to pull their voting bloc together with porn. When that didn't work because Evangelicals looove their porn they turned on fetuses to demand they should all be born, just to turn their backs on them once they were actual babies.

Danish Culture: "Fuck it. It's funny and life's too short to be that serious."

Didn't we have this argument over Judy Bloom's books? Every year, there's a nutjob who tries to get her books removed because they discuss puberty and sexual relationships, and every year, everyone just rolls their eyes and jokes that the complainers are those for whom sex was never a possibility to begin with.

Heads keep rotating the more people poke in to needle Brother USA. :P

(Also Humon, there's a typo in Sis-Sweden's line in panel one. You want "Show" not "how".)

I had to search what turning Red is... I see.

Y'know, once again we Texans did God's work 25 years ago when trying to explain this kind of thing to other conservative Americans. This explains pre-teen sex-ed in the US more succinctly than any other media I've seen.

Enjoy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lwr2gNl37F8

@txag70 I guess that's the problem. Americans need a lot less of the American made version of their god in their lives. The god Americans created and the religion they force on others has little to nothing to do with Christianity and their bible. It is a fantastic example of a war between genders though.

@ImportViking Ah yes, "Supply Side Jesus", as some on the left side of the political spectrum would call it...

First off, fuck the prosperity gospel and hucksters like Joel Osteen. That man is going straight to hell for what he did during Hurricane Harvey.

That being said, I don't tend to think Americans "force" the Christian God on people. I currently live in and have lived in many rural towns in the "Bible Belt" (the part of the country stretching roughly between North Carolina and Texas). People here will very happily display their Christianity and may automatically assume you are a Christian but that is not forcing it on you per se -- it's more that when one gets out of the big cities in the US, meeting people of different faiths, sexualities, or genders becomes a rather rare thing. In small towns like these, "so which church are you going to?" is often an ice-breaker sort of question, a bit like "which football team do you support?". The implication -- that you're both religious and a fan of football in the first place -- is more an overwhelmingly likely statistical bet than anything else.

As for a war between sexes, meh -- there are problems for both men and women in the US. Women aren't at risk for a draft (which I believe we should both change and then bring the draft back because it'll stop us from being so trigger happy on bullshit wars like Iraq), and they get far too much bias in the court system, particularly in divorce settlements and child custody. The Metoo movement has also made getting away with destroying a man's reputation through false claims easier. Then again, women are disadvantaged when it comes to the pink tax. Women all too often hit the glass ceiling in major businesses because "good ol' boys clubs" still often permeate C-suites. I don't think God ties into this fight so much as older, more traditional social mores do. Those traditional social mores tend to be associated with religion more but are not expressly tied to religion as such.

I think people often forget just how much progress has been made here. In 1969, queer people got raided, arrested, and then beaten in riots in relatively progressive New York City of all places. In 2015, same sex marriage was enshrined as the law of the land by the courts, and had been legalized in some states for decades prior. That's a monumental shift in a relatively short time -- relative to the time it took women to fight for suffrage and equal rights, it's quite a bit faster. Social mores take time to change. I think things will work out alright.