Horton Hears A What?
Mar. 14th, 2008 11:25 amApparently there's a new movie out: Horton Hears a Who.
For those who missed it the first time around, Horton Hears a Who, by Theodore Guisel (aka Dr. Seuss) is about an elephant named Horton, who, with his big ears, hears a tiny little voice coming from a speck, and tries to convince his friends that there are people on this speck and it should therefore be treated carefully. I won't give away the ending, except to assure parents interested in finding classic books for small children that nothing in it will traumatize a child.
During the course of the story, Horton tells his friends "A person is a person no matter how small."
The In Sorrow Shalt Thou Bring Forth Children crowd has taken this to mean that Dr. Seuss opposed abortion, or should have opposed abortion, or it's okay to hijack his creative work to promote their agenda against what would be his will if he were still alive, or something like that, and are using the movie as an opportunity to press their views on the small children who attend.
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min0taur's recent post, Wikipedia's entry, and, if you have a strong stomach and a lot of patience, an example of "pro-life" "thought" from "Thinking Allowed" where thinking may be allowed, but is apparently optional, or at the very least takes off on some ...unique tangents. The latter page is about the book rather than the movie, but the principle is the same.
Being dumber than a piece of paper with an elephant drawn on it, the In Sorrow Shalt Thou Bring Forth Children crowd has typically missed half the point:
A person is a person no matter how small, and the way you tell a person from an insignificant speck is that a person can talk to you. Otherwise, if it looks like a speck, it's a speck.
For those who missed it the first time around, Horton Hears a Who, by Theodore Guisel (aka Dr. Seuss) is about an elephant named Horton, who, with his big ears, hears a tiny little voice coming from a speck, and tries to convince his friends that there are people on this speck and it should therefore be treated carefully. I won't give away the ending, except to assure parents interested in finding classic books for small children that nothing in it will traumatize a child.
During the course of the story, Horton tells his friends "A person is a person no matter how small."
The In Sorrow Shalt Thou Bring Forth Children crowd has taken this to mean that Dr. Seuss opposed abortion, or should have opposed abortion, or it's okay to hijack his creative work to promote their agenda against what would be his will if he were still alive, or something like that, and are using the movie as an opportunity to press their views on the small children who attend.
See also
min0taur's recent post, Wikipedia's entry, and, if you have a strong stomach and a lot of patience, an example of "pro-life" "thought" from "Thinking Allowed" where thinking may be allowed, but is apparently optional, or at the very least takes off on some ...unique tangents. The latter page is about the book rather than the movie, but the principle is the same.Being dumber than a piece of paper with an elephant drawn on it, the In Sorrow Shalt Thou Bring Forth Children crowd has typically missed half the point:
A person is a person no matter how small, and the way you tell a person from an insignificant speck is that a person can talk to you. Otherwise, if it looks like a speck, it's a speck.
