Ted Cruz loses it over "lesbian toys" and Disney's new "Lightyear" film

[Celerity]

"Most toys are, kinda, androgynous. They're usually without genitalia"

https://www.salon.com/2022/06/17/ted-cruz-loses-it-over-lesbian-toys-and-disneys-new-lightyear-film_partner/



During a segment on his podcast The Verdict, Texas GOP Sen. Ted Cruz lamented "woke Disney" for what he says is its promotion gay characters, namely the "lesbian toys" featured in the new Buzz Lightyear movie. "Now, never mind that the last time I checked, most toys are kinda androgynous -- they're usually without genitalia ... " Cruz told his co-host, conservative commentator Michael Knowles, adding that the movie has "now been banned in 14 countries," including possibly China.

"I gotta say, it's a wild twist when Hollywood has been willing to grovel to China and let China censor its movies, to embrace anti-Americanism, to avoid any criticism of China because they want to get access to the Chinese movie market, but when it comes to their culture agenda, apparently now they've suddenly discovered, 'Alright, give up the money because lesbian toys are more important."

Link to tweet

More than a dozen Muslim-majority countries have refused to show "Lightyear" -- a sci-fi spin-off from the Pixar classic "Toy Story", set for global release on Friday -- in opposition to the marriage between two female side characters. "We had been warned this would be a likely outcome," producer Galyn Susman told AFP in a Zoom interview. "We weren't going to change the movie we wanted to make just because of a few countries with -- for a lack of a better term -- backward beliefs," she said.

Although many reports have focused on a supposed "lesbian kiss" in the film, the scene in question is actually more of a brief peck between two long-married characters who have a child. Director Angus MacLane said no efforts were made to alter the film to please censors. "We made our movie and they didn't want to watch it, so fine," he told AFP.

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[vlyons]

1. ok I give up. What are the lesbian toys in the movie?

just curious.

[Ocelot II]

2. Are they toys that are *for* lesbians or toys that *are* lesbians?

And how are we supposed to know - or is this just Cancun Cruz' little kink, thinking about lesbian toys?

[Hugh_Lebowski]

4. Toys that are lesbians (nt)

[Effete Snob]

10. That's how he got the nickname "Buzz"

[vlyons]

13. // now that's funny

[Hugh_Lebowski]

3. Most of the characters in the Toy Story films are literally anthropomorphic children's toys

Woody, Buzz, Mr. & Mrs. Potatohead, Bo Peep, etc.

Apparently, two of the female toy characters in the new movie ... are a couple.

Seems their relationship is highly scandalous to Cancun Cruz, and apparently the censors in some backwards-ass countries.

Pixar said roughly 'fuck that we don't care, we're making the movie we want to make'.

Cruz thinks that's also scandalous because ... something something wokeness ... you know ... reasons?

[Celerity]

7. here

[Effete Snob]

9. I was disappointed to find out it wasn't what I'd thought

[madaboutharry]

5. What is it with republicans being so focused on the sex lives of other people?

It is so weird. I couldn’t care less what other people do. If no one is getting hurt, how is that anyone else’s business? Well, it is not.

Republicans seem to have some kind of sickness that causes this perverted voyeuristic interest in other peoples’ sex lives.

And how is pretending certain people don’t exist in the best interests of kids? It is stupid. That kind of thinking does nothing but harm to everyone.

[vlyons]

16. maybe if they didn't think about certain sex acts so much,

it wouldn't bother them. And why exactly do they think about those acts so much? Might it be envy and secret desires?

[moonshinegnomie]

6. well he is the douchebag that atried to ban sex toys

in his own words from a brief he wrote

“the US supreme court has never suggested that the substantive-due-process doctrine ensures individuals’ ability to stimulate their genitals in ways that are neither connected to procreation nor associated with any particular lifestyle.”

[Norbert]

8. I better watch Bugs Bunny while I can

before Ted & the cartoon police does his cancel culture thing.

[rampartc]

20. not to worry

plenty pf guns in the loony toons even if bugs does occasionally slip on a skirt.

[Paladin]

11. "Kinda androgynous"?

Look who's talking...

[MagickMuffin]

12. Hey Cancun Cruz, Do you approve of this one

She's owning us libs!

[Effete Snob]

14. What the...?

Wow, she really showed us, didn't she.

[Emile]

17. Boy what a dick face. She wear that to church too?

[Whiskeytide]

18. What the ...? How ...? I can't even .... What is the point of that? She took ...

… the time to make that? No one in her family stopped her at the door and said “that’s probably not a good idea.” I really need a backstory on this. It’s gonna keep me up tonight. Holy shit.

[sarisataka]

15. So are the toys anatomically correct?

Will there be retrofit "packages" for the earlier Toy Story toys?

[Ocelot II]

19. Can you imagine the outcry if the toys were anatomically correct

instead of - quelle horreur - androgynous, which bothers Cancun Cruz so much? What if their crotches bulged or showed camel toes or there were outlines of nipples? I just don't get the problem here; let's just have a big naked toy orgy with all the toys doing each other, and Ted and his pervy GQP pals can throw an epic hissy fit and get it all over with.

[unitedwethrive]

21. As my daughter pointed out...all of her Barbie's were lesbians because Ken was clearly gay,

so that was the default way she and her friends played with them.

So, I don't think this is going to be earth shattering.