Minions creator on why there are no female minions

Kermit.de.frog · 18-07-2015 08:09PM #1

So Minions can't produce sexually apparently. We don't know why, it's not very realistic but anyway the creator has a curious reason as to why there are no female minions.

This is on the BBC

Minions are all male because their creator believed they were too stupid to be female.

I don't think he would get a way with saying that the other way around against women.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CJ3Pd9jVEAAnsVO.png

So why is it ok to say that about boys/men? Gender equality anyone?

libelula · 18-07-2015 08:11PM

Kermit.de.frog wrote: »

So why is it ok to say that about boys/men?

It's not ok.

Banjo String · 18-07-2015 08:12PM

Kermit.de.frog wrote: »

So Minions can't produce sexually apparently. We don't know why, it's not very realistic but anyway the creator has a curious reason as to why there are no female minions.

This is on the BBC

I don't think he would get a way with saying that the other way around against women.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CJ3Pd9jVEAAnsVO.png

So why is it ok to say that about boys/men? Gender equality anyone?

He's not saying it about men/women, boys/girls.

He's saying it about minions. A made up species in a cartoon.

NIMAN · 18-07-2015 08:13PM

What are minions?

cloud493 · 18-07-2015 08:14PM

NIMAN wrote: »

What are minions?

Them little yellow yokes from the kids films.

http://i.stack.imgur.com/8sNfT.jpg

NachoBusiness · 18-07-2015 08:14PM

Kermit.de.frog wrote: »

So why is it ok to say that about boys/men? Gender equality anyone?

Cause girls are made of sugar and spice and all things nice.

Do you have any idea what boys are made from? Do ya?

It's not good.

Tony Beetroot · 18-07-2015 08:15PM

Minions aren't real op, ok.

Talib Fiasco · 18-07-2015 08:15PM

Caitlyn Jenner likes this

Guy:Incognito · 18-07-2015 08:15PM

Banjo String wrote: »

He's not saying it about men/women, boys/girls.

He's saying it about minions. A made up species in a cartoon.

It wouldnt be just let go like that and you know full well.

What about little black fictional cartoon characters that are too stupid to be white? All good too?

Frigating · 18-07-2015 08:16PM

I haven't seen the films, but it doesn't see like there's that much masculine about them. Apart from the names (Dave, etc.) they could all be of no gender. Is anyone checking inside their overalls?

DEFTLEFTHAND · 18-07-2015 08:17PM

cloud493 wrote: »

Them little yellow yokes from the kids films.

http://i.stack.imgur.com/8sNfT.jpg

Lovely little things.

ElvisChrist6 · 18-07-2015 08:19PM

Guy:Incognito wrote: »

It wouldnt be just let go like that and you know full well.

What about little black fictional cartoon characters that are too stupid to be white? All good too?

Honestly, I think it's a good thing men don't really care all that much about stuff like this. It's not a big deal and most of us don't care. Instead of getting people to be offended by more things, more things should be seen as silliness that doesn't necessitate thinking too much about.

NIMAN · 18-07-2015 08:19PM

Who is Caitlyn Jenner?

Banjo String · 18-07-2015 08:20PM

Guy:Incognito wrote: »

It wouldnt be just let go like that and you know full well.

What about little black fictional cartoon characters that are too stupid to be white? All good too?

They were crows.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s35puUhqQJc

Get over yourself.

cloud493 · 18-07-2015 08:21PM

The OP in question being offended/making a big deal out of a non issue big surprise :rolleyes:

Guy:Incognito · 18-07-2015 08:21PM

Banjo String wrote: »

They were crows.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s35puUhqQJc

Get over yourself.

The early 1940's is your counter? really?

We're talking about now. Where everything is offensive. Except to men apparently. Personally , I'm an everything goes person, but denying that there would be stories in the news and whinging if women were being called stupid en mass is either naive or deliberate argumentative.

Kermit.de.frog · 18-07-2015 08:23PM

ElvisChrist6 wrote: »

Honestly, I think it's a good thing men don't really care all that much about stuff like this.

What do you think the reaction would be if he said minions were female because males are not "dumb and stupid" enough?

Could you imagine what would come upon him from every feminist and feminist grouping going!?

Banjo String · 18-07-2015 08:24PM

Guy:Incognito wrote: »

The early 1940's is your counter? really?

I've no idea what you're on about tbh. Op (and yourself)on a faux outrage campaign about sexual equality, based on a fcukin cartoon about yellow aliens?

He's not implying human females are dumb, he's saying the minions(fictional species) are dumb.

Excuse me while I don't give a shiny turd.

Guy:Incognito · 18-07-2015 08:27PM

Banjo String wrote: »

I've no idea what you're on about tbh. .

Surely its not that hard to figure out? Tv shows/films/people in general got away with a lot more in past generations. If they made Dumbo today do you reckon they'd have the crows in it?

The Backwards Man · 18-07-2015 08:28PM

An oul lad that used to live beside me had the perfect retort for these type of made up problems

'Isn't it great that we never went to war?'

Guy:Incognito · 18-07-2015 08:29PM

Banjo String wrote: »

He's not implying human females are dumb, he's saying the minions(fictional species) are dumb.
.

Nope , he implied males are dumb. Thats the point, he wouldn't have said the same about females because thered be backlash.

ElvisChrist6 · 18-07-2015 08:29PM

Kermit.de.frog wrote: »

What do you think the reaction would be if he said minions were female because males are not "dumb and stupid" enough?

Could you imagine what would come upon him from every feminist and feminist grouping going!?

That's what I'm saying though, just because there'd be uproar from that doesn't mean there should be simply for the sake of keeping it equal. There's a lot of things people shouldn't get so worked up over (ads, marketing ploys), so why add to them just because other people don't like certain things.

Take blackface/whiteface. I don't think one is bad and the other isn't due to their history. One is bad if done in a certain way (full on gollywog type stuff, I mean, whereas Tropic Thunder's Robert Downey Jr. character for example seems fine to me) because it upsets certain people, whereas the other doesn't apart from those who want to point out the double standard. It's nothing to do with power dynamics, just that one thing upsets people and the other doesn't. No big deal.

Kermit.de.frog · 18-07-2015 08:29PM

Guy:Incognito wrote: »

Surely its not that hard to figure out? Tv shows/films/people in general got away with a lot more in past generations. If they made Dumbo today do you reckon they'd have the crows in it?

Or this ad (with just about every black stereotype going!)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5LvLn9PWln8

Kermit.de.frog · 18-07-2015 08:31PM

ElvisChrist6 wrote: »

That's what I'm saying though, just because there'd be uproar

I'm not outraged and don't think it's a big deal. I'm just curious why it is ok going one direction and not ok going the other.

No one is "ourtraged" (I don't think)

ElvisChrist6 · 18-07-2015 08:35PM

Kermit.de.frog wrote: »

I'm not outraged and don't think it's a big deal. I'm just curious why it is ok going one direction and not ok going the other.

No one is "ourtraged" (I don't think)

That's fair enough, sorry for assuming so! I see people that do get outraged and just assumed that's what this was getting at.

eviltwin · 18-07-2015 08:37PM

The person who created the minions said this, that's one person. Afaik no one has ever said anything about males being stupid when the original 2 movies came out. I would take what he says with a pinch of salt, its not worth getting angry about.

YFlyer · 18-07-2015 08:37PM

He said it because he knows that men wouldn't get their knickers in a knot.

18-07-2015 08:38PM

Kermit.de.frog wrote: »

I'm not outraged and don't think it's a big deal. I'm just curious why it is ok going one direction and not ok going the other.

No one is "ourtraged" (I don't think)

I'm outraged at all the cleaning fluid ads featuring women cleaning toilets and mopping floors. If it was only men doing it, there'd be uproar.

See? You can feel persecuted about almost anything, if you're really desperate enough to find offence in everything.

Its' a flippin' cartoon ffs.

Carlos Orange · 18-07-2015 08:38PM

Banjo String wrote: »

He's not saying it about men/women, boys/girls.

He's saying it about minions. A made up species in a cartoon.

Did you even read the quote?

DEFTLEFTHAND · 18-07-2015 08:40PM

Kermit.de.frog wrote: »

Or this ad (with just about every black stereotype going!)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5LvLn9PWln8

Italians have also been depicted as criminal pigeons in Animaniacs.

Kermit.de.frog · 18-07-2015 08:40PM

Candie wrote: »

I'm outraged at all the cleaning fluid ads featuring women cleaning toilets and mopping floors.

Ha, I never actually thought of that.

I think yer man Barry Scot broke the mould on that though!

Minions creator on why there are no female minions

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