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“Three Little Pigs” are racist?
January 24th, 2008

Three Little Pigs!

The Three Little Pigs (no, that’s not a band) are in trouble from Becta, a UK Government agency panel that ruled that a digital interpretation of the ancient children’s tale is racist! The statement was described as a ’slap in the face’ by creative director Anne Curtis. The digital book, which has already won an award was turned down by Becta, which gives away the coveted Bett Award. How can the three innocent little pigs possibly be racist? Hit the jump to find out!

Becta ruled that this CD-version of the tale prominently featured pigs, which could be offensive to Muslims. Well, duh - Three Little Pigs? I don’t see how an interpretation of the Three Little Pigs can be done without the pigs. And I’m pretty sure most members from the UK Muslim community would know better than to go suing for cultural offence over a goddamned children’s tale.

Because that can’t possibly be enough, Becta also said that the story could be offensive to builders, because the story makes a heavy use of stereotypes for the three pigs, all of whom are builders. The judges say: “Is it true that all builders are cowboys, builders get their work blown down, and builders are like pigs?”

Since they have such a hatred towards occupational stereotypes, we are led to believe that Becta expects children’s stories to include complex moral situations, deeply developed characters and an ultra-realistic depiction of the fantasy world. Because of course, stereotyping builders causes “alienation of parts of the workforce (building trade)”.

http://www.stuffwelike.com/stuffwelike/ ... re-racist/

If Al Sharpton and JJ get involved, I'm organizing a mass suicide...

haha... damn...

next the vegetarians are gonna complain about being discriminated against...

Since when is Muslim a "race"?

ignorant bastards can't see how they are stereotyping far worse than the story they oppose.

Thing is, I never got this damn story. What is the moral? Bricks are more resilient to wind damage than straw or sticks? if the story involved the Pig earning bricks or going to architecture school, I could see some moral. But apprently the choice of material was the only difference? Was this pig wealthier than the other, or was he the only one who knew how to make bricks? Why was his house finished as fast as the others? Is the real key to this story just the building materials? Hell, that is a lesson you can demonstrate easily..

1. Throw straw at kid.
2. Throw stick at kid.
3. Get ready to throw brick at kid and watch him flinch. He already got an idea it is a tougher material.


I always hated this story. Make this story where he has to go to a trade school or college, and he is barely scraping by, and gets his house made right before the wolf disaster... While the other pigs was in they houses partying and just living it up, while Brick pig is working 2 jobs and looking for a source of equity. Then the story becomes about INVESTMENT.

I've always like the PC version.....Once there were 3 little pigs who lived together in mutual respect and in harmony with their environment. Using materials that were indigenous to the area they each built a beautiful house. One pig built a house of straw, one a house of sticks, and one a house of dung, clay and creeper vines shaped into bricks and baked in a small kiln. When they were finished, the pigs were satisfied with their work and settled back to live in peace and self-determination.

But their idyll was soon shattered. One day, along came a big, bad wolf with expansionist ideas. He saw the pigs and grew very hungry in both a physical and ideological sense.

When the pigs saw the wolf, they ran into the house of straw. The wolf ran up to the house and banged on the door, shouting, "Little pigs, little pigs, let me in!"

The pigs shouted back, "Your gunboat tactics hold no fear for pigs defending their homes and culture."

But the wolf wasn't to be denied what he thought was his manifest destiny. So he huffed and puffed and blew down the house of straw. The frightened pigs ran to the house of sticks, with the wolf in hot pursuit. Where the house had stood, other wolves bought up the land and started a banana plantation.

At the house of sticks, the wolf again banged on the door and shouted, "Little, pigs, little pigs, let me in!"

The pigs shouted back, "Go to hell, you carnivorous, imperialistic oppressor!"

At this the wolf huffed and puffed and blew down the house of sticks. The pigs ran to the house of bricks, with the wolf close at their heels. Where the house of sticks had stood, other wolves built a time-share condo resort complex for vacationing wolves, with each unit a fibreglass reconstruction of the house of sticks, as well as native curio shops, snorkelling and dolphin shows.

At the house of bricks, the wolf again banged on the door and shouted, "Little pigs, little pigs, let me in!"

This time in response, the pigs sang songs of solidarity and wrote letters of protest to the United Nations.

By now the wolf was getting angry at the pigs' refusal to see the situation from the carnivore's point of view. So he huffed and puffed, and huffed and puffed, then grabbed his chest and fell over dead from a massive heart attack brought on from eating too many fatty foods.

The three little pigs rejoiced that justice had triumphed and did a little dance around the corpse of the wolf. Their next step was to liberate their homeland. They gathered together a band of other pigs who had been forced off their lands. This new brigade of porcinistas attacked the resort complex with machine-guns and rocket launchers and slaughtered the cruel wolf oppressors, sending a clear signal to the rest of the hemisphere not to meddle in their internal affairs. Then the pigs set up a model socialist democracy with free education, universal health care and affordable housing for everyone. {My note: well it is a fairy tale after all.}

Please note: The wolf in this story was a metaphorical construct. No actual wolves were harmed in the writing of the story.

Mr. S Man is mah storytime hero! *clap*

How can you not like a story that uses the line - The pigs shouted back, "Go to hell, you carnivorous, imperialistic oppressor!" ????
CDR

Gave me a good chuckle st4, thanks..!