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Title: Gender Misconceptions
Post by: Ludichris1 on November 20, 2013, 09:39:46 PM
Ha, this has actually happened to me. Twice!

On LBT 8, when I was younger, I used to think Tippy was female. I hadn't watched the film in a while, and a few years ago when I checked the wiki on LBT 8, I learned that Tippy was actually male... lol boy how that changed my view.

Also, when I was young, and until a few years ago, I used to think Rabbit on Winnie the Pooh was female too! I hadn't watched either films in quite a while, but I never paid those characters a second thought on their gender till actually learning about it xD

I always imagined Tippy as Spike's new and quirky female friend and Rabbit as the grumpy, funny, old female rabbit of the Hundred Acre Wood.

Have you guys ever had misconceptions about characters and their gender :lol ?
Title: Gender Misconceptions
Post by: Nahla on November 20, 2013, 10:07:01 PM
When I first saw The Lion King 2 I thought Vitani was a boy...no she is a girl.

I also thought Tippy from LBT8 was a girl,it didn't even click even when Tippy's mother said "Come on BOYS,lets go home"  :slap.

When I was younger and first saw the first LBT movie I kept thinking Grandpa was Grandma and Grandma was Grandpa...don't ask why....I don't know myself,this was in the first movie by the way where they didn't have voices so I couldn't tell if which one was which  <_<.

Title: Gender Misconceptions
Post by: Ludichris1 on November 20, 2013, 10:45:41 PM
Quote from: Nahla,Nov 20 2013 on  09:07 PM
When I first saw The Lion King 2 I thought Vitani was a boy...no she is a girl.

I also thought Tippy from LBT8 was a girl,it didn't even click even when Tippy's mother said "Come on BOYS,lets go home"  :slap.

When I was younger and first saw the first LBT movie I kept thinking Grandpa was Grandma and Grandma was Grandpa...don't ask why....I don't know myself,this was in the first movie by the way where they didn't have voices so I couldn't tell if which one was which  <_<.
Lol yeah I just rewatched LBT 8 today and Tippy's mom said "come along boys" about three times yet I had never noticed ha xD
Title: Gender Misconceptions
Post by: DarkHououmon on November 20, 2013, 11:46:39 PM
For so long, I thought Shenzi from the first Lion King was a boy. Yep, the "madame" line from Zazu flew right over my head.
Title: Gender Misconceptions
Post by: Ludichris1 on November 20, 2013, 11:59:53 PM
Heh. Shenzi I always knew was a girl (though I watched Lion King later) . I knew Vitani was girl though xD

(but then look at my other misconceptions)
Title: Gender Misconceptions
Post by: Zimba on November 21, 2013, 12:28:46 AM
Quote from: Nahla,Nov 21 2013 on  12:07 PM

When I was younger and first saw the first LBT movie I kept thinking Grandpa was Grandma and Grandma was Grandpa...don't ask why....I don't know myself,this was in the first movie by the way where they didn't have voices so I couldn't tell if which one was which  <_<.
Hehe,Nahla you silly billy.


Do games count? Cause I was pretty sure Yoshi was a girl cause he laid eggs...but no he is a he....yeah....
Title: Gender Misconceptions
Post by: Ludichris1 on November 21, 2013, 02:31:30 AM
The cow on Barnyard has an udder. lol

Even though Yoshi laid eggs... he still seemed pretty masculine so I assumed he was male or multi-gendered (literally)
Title: Gender Misconceptions
Post by: Mumbling on November 21, 2013, 03:02:32 AM
I thought Dil was male, because of her voice in the Dutch version.
Title: Gender Misconceptions
Post by: bushwacked on November 21, 2013, 04:52:08 AM
I always thought Terk from Tarzan was a boy.
Title: Gender Misconceptions
Post by: Mumbling on November 21, 2013, 04:53:08 AM
^ Ohh me too!
Title: Gender Misconceptions
Post by: bushwacked on November 21, 2013, 06:07:11 AM
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^ Ohh me too!
She had the voice and demeanor of a boy, what were we meant to think?!  :p

How about Tweety-Pie? I still have no idea if it's a boy or girl.
Title: Gender Misconceptions
Post by: Malte279 on November 21, 2013, 07:52:29 AM
In an officially released German audio play of the original movie they refer to Ducky as "er" which means "he" causing some confusion (the movie never specifies) which was only solved by the sequels :p
Title: Gender Misconceptions
Post by: Ludichris1 on November 21, 2013, 11:28:46 AM
Quote from: Mumbling,Nov 21 2013 on  03:53 AM
^ Ohh me too!
Now that I think about it o-O ... me three!
Title: Gender Misconceptions
Post by: LBTDiclonius on November 21, 2013, 03:11:42 PM
I always thought Spongebob was a girl. And I also always thought that Terk was a boy too.
Title: Gender Misconceptions
Post by: jansenov on November 21, 2013, 06:48:14 PM
Ducky is voiced by a boy in the Croatian dub of the original LBT, and uses masculine participle endings when talking about herself.
Title: Gender Misconceptions
Post by: Phantom on November 21, 2013, 10:04:44 PM
Tippy
Terk from Tarzan
Blue and Magenta from Blue's Clues
 :oops
Title: Gender Misconceptions
Post by: Ludichris1 on November 22, 2013, 12:19:50 AM
Wait Blue is female?? My life is a lie! lol
Title: Gender Misconceptions
Post by: Mumbling on November 22, 2013, 03:10:10 AM
Haha, that is one I missed as well... The whole purple = female and blue = male thing just made sense to me :P: Oh well
Title: Gender Misconceptions
Post by: Nahla on November 22, 2013, 03:46:40 AM
. The reason for that is because the makers. wanted to fight stereotypes with colours and genders. They wanted to convince kids that girls can like blue and that boys can like pink, and show that the statement ''girls aren't allowed to like blue and boys aren't allowed to like pink'' isn't true. But yes I thought Blue was the boy and  Magenta the girl at first too.
Title: Gender Misconceptions
Post by: Ducky123 on November 22, 2013, 09:16:09 AM
They were fooling us  :anger  Blue's Clues was one of my favourites in my (early) childhood.
Title: Gender Misconceptions
Post by: Amaranthine on November 22, 2013, 01:58:29 PM
Y'know, looking at this thread kind of intrigues me in consideration to how we look at gender, their roles, and how we view feminine vs masculine traits, or both, or neither.

I knew people who thought Rinkus was a woman, but his voice came off as masculine to me, as I have heard similar voices before in shows like "Pinky and the Brain" and even with Ozzy and Strut within the same series.

In the past I thought Terk and Shenzi were guys, mostly because the majority of females I saw in other media would have traits to distinguish themselves from the guys by having curves, softer features, and paler colorations.
Title: Gender Misconceptions
Post by: Ptyra on November 22, 2013, 02:42:05 PM
It was pretty much just the Blanket from The Brave Little Toaster that I thought was...feminine. It's supposed to be like a little boy, though.

I have a bit of gender confusion of my own right now. The Doctor Who audio play "Dark Eyes" has a Dalek that wanders around loose from its shell, named Thelos. They never use any pronouns with it, but I really, really want to slap a pronoun on it. My confusion comes from the voice, since it's neither masculine nor feminine.
Title: Gender Misconceptions
Post by: LBTDiclonius on November 22, 2013, 03:02:18 PM
I didn't think Rinkus was a girl, since his voice was masculine to me, but I thought his name was Sierra because it was a feminine name and he was, well, pink. It blew my mind when I found out it was the other way around. I also briefly thought that Littlefoot was a girl as well.
Title: Gender Misconceptions
Post by: Ludichris1 on November 22, 2013, 05:27:40 PM
After rewatching LBT series (up to 12 so far) over the past week, I really started to think about how the artists distinguished male from female characters; and what I love about it is it's never consistent. Some characters have bigger eyes, eyelashes, or even bigger faces, while others have the exact opposite and yet are also female, but represented in different ways. I haven't pinned down the exact method yet, but it's so interesting to see how little the dinosaurs are stereotyped.
Title: Gender Misconceptions
Post by: Phantom on December 03, 2013, 12:06:32 AM
Rabbit from Winnie the Pooh.