The Null Device blog: "He's Udderly Cool"

Could this be a new record for concentrated stupidity on an advertising poster?

That's right: a male cow. Either:

Hollywood is staffed by people who don't know what a cow actually is, or
they're assuming that most of the kids whom they market this steaming pile of mass entertainment at are clueless about where their hamburgers come from and those who aren't are sufficiently conditioned by condescendingly stupid television and movies to switch off the parts of their brains that notice that there's something wrong and just go with the flow, or perhaps
in this post-industrial, post-post-agricultural society, the concept of barnyard animals has receded from plausible reality into the realm of mythology, where taking liberties (such as anthropomorphising cows as male) is acceptable.

Posted by: arthur | | Sun Nov 12 10:25:08 2006

You left out d) that the immoral, Godless Hollywood wants to advance the homosexual agenda by feminising male animals.

Posted by: pilgrim | http://www.nexistepas.com/enthuse/ | Sun Nov 12 11:22:59 2006

There is a precedent. In the mid-90s, there was an ad campaign for Boddington's (a newly plasticised version of what had once been a fairly decent beer) which featured an animated male cow. They were pretty funny, actually. Example: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=95sC_DNTZFI

Posted by: acb | http://dev.null.org/acb/ | Sun Nov 12 13:27:13 2006

Or maybe the studio deliberately emphasised the maleness of the cow as to avoid the various Falwells of Middle America calling for boycotts of their "lesbian-biker-cow" film?

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