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Here’s some news that would definitely lead Winnie the Pooh to exclaim, “Oh, bother.”
Lawmakers in the small town of Tuszyn, Poland, have voted to ban the honey-loving character from representing a playground due to the anthropomorphic bear’s lack of a clear gender identity and a propensity for going pants-less.
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Officials at a council meeting claimed that Winnie the Pooh is of “dubious sexuality” and is “inappropriately dressed” to be around children, given that the bear is “half-naked,” according to the Croatian Times.
“The problem with that bear is it doesn’t have a complete wardrobe,” said council person Ryszard Cichy, 46. “It is half-naked, which is wholly inappropriate for children.”
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Another official said that Pooh Bear “doesn’t wear underpants because it doesn’t have a sex. It’s a hermaphrodite.”
Council person Hanna Jachimska criticized Winnie-the-Pooh author A.A. Milne for having “cut his [Pooh’s] testicles off with a razor blade because he had a problem with his identity.”
It had not been decided which character would instead represent the playground.
Email: Ryan.Gajewski@pgmedia.org
Twitter: @_RyanGajewski
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