Thursday, May 30, 2013

Cartoon Network Launches Transgendered Superhero Cartoon

SheZow

Hub Network

SheZow transforms from mild-mannered 12-year-old boy Guy by uttering the phrase, 'You Go Girl!'

Children's network The Hub is introducing a new super-heroine named SheZow in an animated series debuting Saturday.
The catch is that SheZow's alter-ego is actually a 12-year-old boy named Guy, who transforms into a female costumed crime-fighter by uttering the phrase "You Go Girl!" and using a power ring inherited from his dead aunt.
Children's network The Hub will premiere a gender-bending crime-fighter named 'SheZow' on Saturday.

Hub Network

Children's network The Hub will premiere a gender-bending crime-fighter named 'SheZow' on Saturday.

"When I first heard about the show, my reaction was 'Are you out of your minds?'" Hub CEO Margaret Loesch told the Los Angeles Times of the series created by "Julius & Friends'" Obie Scott Wade. "Then I looked at it, and I thought 'This is just funny.'"
Not everyone, however, is laughing.
Ben Shapiro of Breitbart News criticized television executives for their alleged 'leftist' encouragement of transgender themes in the new show.

Hub Network

Ben Shapiro of Breitbart News criticized television executives for their alleged 'leftist' encouragement of transgender themes in the new show.

"Nothing says 'child-appropriate material' quite like gender-bending underage superheroes," wrote Ben Shapiro of Breitbart News, calling Loesch a "leftist."
But a spokesman for GLAAD fired back that criticizing the animated series for "promoting" transgender themes is, well, cartoonish.
“This Breitbart News article is just a laughable attempt at attention seeking, comparable to Jerry Falwell attacking the Teletubbies, and demonstrates a profound ignorance of transgender people since this show doesn't include any,” said GLAAD’s Rich Ferraro

(dailynews)

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