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RE: Do the Smurfs provide a good model for society? | BBC
June 27, 2011 at 12:07 am
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(June 24, 2011 at 6:05 am)Anymouse Wrote:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-13878108
Yes, the BBC has a full page article on that age old question: do the Smurfs provide a good model for society? (Includes discussion of the UN film made against warfare on civilians where Smurfette is blown up in an aerial bombing raid.) - James
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A post like this has to have visuals. 
![[Image: TgC_comic141.gif]](https://images.weserv.nl/?url=www.gifmania.co.uk%2FThe-Smurfs%2FTgC_comic141.gif) To answer the question; we're talking about a community where there's one female outnumbered by what remain blue males despite that, and she's a single mother. Which beg's the question, who's the daddy?
Sounds like it's not a matter of asking does it hold potential as a model of society, but rather is a model of society.
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June 27, 2011 at 3:00 am
(June 27, 2011 at 12:07 am)Judas BentHer Wrote: To answer the question; we're talking about a community where there's one female outnumbered by what remain blue males despite that, and she's a single mother. Which beg's the question, who's the daddy?
Sounds like it's not a matter of asking does it hold potential as a model of society, but rather is a model of society.
Almost sounds like society immediately after the Biblical flood: a small cast of characters, few females, must have incest to repopulate.
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June 27, 2011 at 3:10 am
Incest. Repeat of history as from, in the beginning...god created three men and one woman. After which murder and bad math boiled it down to 2 men and one woman.
Good thing I would go there, saying; the family that lays together stays and prays together and Yahweh was pleased.
Nah, I'd not do that.
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June 27, 2011 at 9:50 am
I think smurfette is the sacred mother goddess, taking and dismissing lovers as she sees fit. Are they a good model? Hell no.
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June 27, 2011 at 10:35 am
Smurfette never had kids. Sassette was created by Gargamel as well as the other children.
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June 27, 2011 at 10:59 am
Even as a kid I thought this cartoon was dumb.
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June 27, 2011 at 11:05 am
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Interesting how, nowadays, anything of a certain vintage comes to be perceived as a sort of esoteric source of epiphany which is then devoured by the masses.
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RE: Do the Smurfs provide a good model for society? | BBC
July 4, 2011 at 1:05 am
(June 27, 2011 at 10:35 am)Rhizomorph13 Wrote: Smurfette never had kids. Sassette was created by Gargamel as well as the other children.
That's not what the smurf site says.
One night when the moon was blue, a stork brought Baby Smurf to the village. No one knows where he came from. Immediately adopted by all the Smurfs, he completely changed their quiet little lives - but no one's complaining. Everyone loves Baby Smurf, with all his good and his bad sides!
Because saying baby Smurf came to be because Smurfette got drunk playing a game of quarter shots and ended up as the main attraction in a blue orgy, would be wrong.
Yes, big bird bearing baby bundle is much nicer. And so G rated. Boring, with visuals of stork droppings, but definitely G rated.
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July 4, 2011 at 1:34 am
Judas Benther Wrote:Because saying baby Smurf came to be because Smurfette got drunk playing a game of quarter shots and ended up as the main attraction in a blue orgy, would be wrong.
Disagree. That would be about right. That's how it usually happens.
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RE: Do the Smurfs provide a good model for society? | BBC
July 4, 2011 at 2:13 am
Wait, so Smurfette had an immaculate (blue) conception?
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