Current Events > Is the classic movie 'Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer' sexist and bigoted?

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After a week of reports that "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer" was sexist, bigoted and abusive, an original actor of the classic film has had enough.

Corrine Conley, who voiced the doll in the 1964 children's movie, said the flap about the bullying in the film misses the point.

"Certainly in 'Rudolph the Red-Nosed Red Deer' everyone is reconciled happily at the end of the movie," she told TMZ. "And let's hope in today's society the things people are bullying about can also be rectified."

Last week, Huffington Post, tweeted a short video calling the show "seriously problematic" that captured film scenes and a round-up of Twitter reaction.

The school coach encourages bullying, a video caption reads:

One scene, for example, shows Rudolph's coach saying, "From now on, gang, we wont let Rudolph join in any reindeer games, right?"

Clarice's dad is a bigot, another video caption reads:

Clarice, the girl reindeer and Rudolph's crush, is forbidden from hanging out with him when her dad says, "Now there is one thing I want to make very plain: No doe of mine is going to be seen with a red-nosed reindeer."

Donner forbids his wife from joining the search for his son, another caption reads:

"No. This is man's work!" Sorry, Rudolph's mom. Doesn't the cave need sprucin' up?

Conley said sometimes people cry when they learn she was one of the voices in the film because it's touched so many people.

While the film DOES contain bullying even Santa berates Rudolph's dad for something his son was simply born with she says it all works out in the end. That, to her, is what matters.

"I just can't imagine it affecting anyone in a negative way. They must be like scrooge," she said. "Tell them to watch 'Scrooge.'"

I don't know about sexist or bigoted but the message of the movie is a little messed up. As one reviewer once put it, "Deviation is only accepted if it can be exploited."

Overall though it's a childhood favorite of mine so I still like it and don't see how people are offended over it.
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what if Rudolph has a red nose because hes an alcoholic
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Lets say it is.

So what?
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Nothing is as fucked up as Thomas the Tank Engine. Sentient trains who are slave labor for a small island of super rich humans.
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The coach, Clarices dad, and Donner are supposed to come off as prejudiced assholes, thats the point. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre isnt a problematic endorsement of murder and cannibalism
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Classic?

It's shit. Who cares?
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Everyone gets offended by everything in 2018 lol

Everything is ___ist these days.
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The people(deer) are bigoted in the movie.. that is kind of the point.
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This is why we can't have nice things
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It doesn't encourage bullying. Its very clear that the other reindeer aren't being fair to Rudolph and that bullying isn't cool.

If you want to point out a problem, its that it doesn't work out all that well in the end. The moral is "don't bully someone who is different because there might be a unique circumstance years from now where that kids specific deformity will save the day". The only reason any of the other reindeer even feel bad about bullying rudolph is that he turned out to have an additional use. They certainly didn't care when Rudopph ran away

Proto_Spark posted...

It doesn't encourage bullying. Its very clear that the other reindeer aren't being fair to Rudolph and that bullying isn't cool.

If you want to point out a problem, its that it doesn't work out all that well in the end. The moral is "don't bully someone who is different because there might be a unique circumstance years from now where that kids specific deformity will save the day". The only reason any of the other reindeer even feel bad about bullying rudolph is that he turned out to have an additional use. They certainly didn't care when Rudopph ran away

"Deviation is only accepted if it can be exploited."

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Everything is offensive if you nitpick enough. Next year "Walking in a Winter Wonderland" will be offensive because it's ableist against people who can't walk.

no

it was a classic
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The moral of Rudolph is that we should shun people who are different unless they are useful to us.
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Every year I watch Rudolph and expect the line about "man's work" and the yellow skinned Inuits with black eyes to be censored. I was wondering when they'd come for Rudolph. I guess that time is now.

It's a pity that acceptable history began in 2009. We miss out on the vast majority of everything that happened by limiting ourselves to only that which offends no one.

I would not bothered too much if the line were omitted.

Skye Reynolds posted...

Every year I watch Rudolph and expect the line about "man's work" and the yellow skinned Inuits with black eyes to be censored. I was wondering when they'd come for Rudolph. I guess that time is now.

It's a pity that acceptable history began in 2009. We miss out on the vast majority of everything that happened by limiting ourselves to only that which offends no one.

I would not bothered too much if the line were omitted.

Oh shut up
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