Huffing And Puffing About Nothing
Once upon a time there were three little pigs… and so the story began all those years ago.
Today though, it’s not likely to pass muster because of the fact that it may offend Muslims, and even builders!
In fact, a CD book for children based on the story entitled The Three Little Cowboy Builders has been rejected by judges from the ‘Bett Awards’.
The Bett Awards is a competition which is run by the British government’s technology agency for schools.
I always thought that the Three Little Pigs was a parable about building on a firm foundation, and doing things right the first time.
It shows that with foresight, planning and hard work one can be successful.
To suggest that it’s an attack on Muslims or builders is ridiculous, and is a sad comment on the way society is headed.
The drive to be ‘nice’ and not offend appears to be curbing freedom of speech, and our own traditions in today’s (western) world.
The original Three Little Pigs film:
Three Little Pigs is an animated short film released on May 27, 1933 by United Artists, produced by Walt Disney and directed by Burt Gillett.
Based on a fairy tale of the same name, Three Little Pigs won the 1934 Academy Award for Best Short Subject: Cartoons.
In 1994, it was voted #11 of the 50 Greatest Cartoons of all time by members of the animation field.
In 2007, Three Little Pigs was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being “culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant”.
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Allan, your post title is quite apt. I’m afraid that political correctness may be stretching things too far. How can it be about the Muslims when they don’t eat pork? As far as I can recall “Pigs” was a term used for the Police decades ago. How can it be derogatory to builders when its sound structure that is being promoted?
Culture as we know it is changing because of globalization. But there’s something that escapes me with this story, I just don’t get it. –Durano, done!
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G’day Durano,
I agree – there is so much that needs fixing in the world, and yet this garbage is what grabs peoples’ attention?
As pointed out by another commenter elsewhere, when the original cartoon was released, it had a definite anti Semitic flavour, and that was dealt with, as it should have been…
I’m sick of ‘authorities’ trying to make everything so nice and safe so that no one gets offended – for goodness sake, we need to get over it all and just get on with living…
Cheers mate!
We should try hard to get not offend those around us, but just like most anything else in the world currently that has been taken too far. Everyone is too afraid to speak out afraid they will offend someone, including themselves.