The Cartoon Network Launches Transgenderesque Cartoon

[MrsKellyPierce]

Called "SheZow" that when he says "You Go Girl" he turns into a crime fighting hot female...

I wonder how long before it's cancelled

[Remy757Photog]

Interesting, not my preferred art style for animation, but will give it a go.

[lifeisfiction]

There was another post before about it, it won't be Cartoon Network's first transgender character. Powerpuff Girls had a character like that and nobody blinked an eye.

[Wendy Summers]

It's actually annoying that transgender is getting lumped in with this cartoon. It's neither the intent of the show or how it plays out in the plot.

[bluesoul]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cW3FBjKt7Co

the sidekick is called 'splatterboy' :party:

[BellaBellucci]

Absolutely ridiculous. I give it one episode.

~BB~

[scroller]

They already made 26 episodes for Australian TV since last year. The only thing new now is the airing of the episodes on American TV.

SheZow - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shezow)

[BellaBellucci]

The series' protagonist, a 12 year old boy named Guy[1] Hamdon, discovers the superheroine Shezow's power ring and puts it on. While the power ring does grant him super powers, it was only meant to be worn by a woman.

Gee, there's nothing like attempting to break rigid stereotypes by using plot devices that exploit those same stereotypes, is there? A boy named Guy (of all things) turns not just into a girl, but an ultra girlie pseudo-Powerpuff Girl, and a pink one no less.

~BB~

[BellaBellucci]

I also just read that he doesn't actually turn into a girl. He just crossdresses while his sister, an actual girl and the more respectful and deserving party of the superpowers of a specifically-FEMALE superhero, plays a typically feminine supporting role, thereby having 'girl power' stolen right from under her.

Sounds like a middle-aged transvestite's wet dream to me. And it's being marketed to children.

Still love it?

~BB~

[TSPornFan]

I actually like this show. It's pretty funny.

[littletwink]

I used to pretend I was Wonder Woman and would 'turn into WW' by spinning around. I even had little bracelets that could deflect bullets.

[Tiffany Anne]

It's actually on the Hub, not Cartoon Network, been on in Canada and Australia for like a year, and anyone surprised Bella sounds just like the Fox news crowd complaining about the show?

[BellaBellucci]

It's actually on the Hub, not Cartoon Network, been on in Canada and Australia for like a year, and anyone surprised Bella sounds just like the Fox news crowd complaining about the show?

Is anyone surprised that a crossdresser would take offense?

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-RWV3MjLHD48/UOFEP7A97RI/AAAAAAAAARI/MUfvjiD_ZQ0/s1600/xmasgift-2012-12-31-00-17.jpg

~BB~

[francisfkudrow]

I'd watch it. Looks pleasant enough.

[JenniferParisHusband]

I haven't seen it, but is it really a transgender character? It seems more like the Japanese "Ranma 1/2."

[Rivz]

I was just thinking that Ranma, or Kampfir. Another anime where boy turns into pretty girl crimefighter.

[danthepoetman]

Is anyone surprised that a crossdresser would take offense?~BB~
Bella, what a lovely new avatar! Your lovely face and such delicate, narrow, feminine shoulders! That's really adorable!

[BellaBellucci]

Bella, what a lovely new avatar! Your lovely face and such delicate, narrow, feminine shoulders! That's really adorable!

Aww, thanks honee! :)

~BB~

[BiBoyinBeantown]

I was just thinking that Ranma, or Kampfir. Another anime where boy turns into pretty girl crimefighter.

Yeah, I was gonna say, it was better in the original Klingon^H^H^H^H^H^H^HJapanese as Ranma 1/2.