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<blockquote data-quote="faulkton" data-source="post: 1499722" data-attributes="member: 561910"><a href="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/02/10/GEORGE.TMP" target="_blank">http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/02/10/GEORGE.TMP</a>For the politically correct Bay Area parent, the &quot;Curious George&quot; children&#039;s books are a minefield of cultural horrors through which to tiptoe. Imperialism. Animal abuse. Bad parenting.&quot;The books are really irresponsible to me. It&#039;s sickening, really,&quot; said Robin Roth, managing editor of <a href="http://www.arkonline.com," target="_blank">http://www.arkonline.com,</a> an animal welfare Web site.Start with the Caucasian, gun-carrying Man with the Yellow Hat venturing to Africa (imperialism alert!) to harvest wildlife for a zoo (animal repression alert!). Continue with George being unsupervised and allowed to smoke a pipe and huff ether (bad parenting alert!), and it&#039;s a wonder there aren&#039;t pickets already forming around movie theaters. Roth, a high school English teacher in Los Angeles, writes on her animal rights Web site that &quot;Curious George&quot; reveals &quot;the sinister side of a corrupt wildlife trade with perilous roots in Western imperialism.&quot; When the mischievous George is sent to jail, &quot;the picture of the forlorn little primate alone in his cell conjures haunting images of countless monkeys lingering in laboratories, suffering silently and alone.&quot;That&#039;s a bit of a stretch, say the book&#039;s defenders, such as Frederick Meekins of <a href="http://www.theconservativevoice.com." target="_blank">http://www.theconservativevoice.com.</a>&quot;It&#039;s not like George ends up being used in laboratory experimentation,&quot; Meekins writes on his site. &quot;From what&#039;s depicted in the storybooks, it always looked like he had a pretty good life, as do many other zoo animals.&quot;</blockquote>

[QUOTE="faulkton, post: 1499722, member: 561910"] [URL="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/02/10/GEORGE.TMP"]http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/02/10/GEORGE.TMP[/URL] For the politically correct Bay Area parent, the "Curious George" children's books are a minefield of cultural horrors through which to tiptoe. Imperialism. Animal abuse. Bad parenting. "The books are really irresponsible to me. It's sickening, really," said Robin Roth, managing editor of [URL="http://www.arkonline.com,"]http://www.arkonline.com,[/URL] an animal welfare Web site. [B]Start with the Caucasian, gun-carrying Man with the Yellow Hat venturing to Africa (imperialism alert!) to harvest wildlife for a zoo (animal repression alert!). Continue with George being unsupervised and allowed to smoke a pipe and huff ether (bad parenting alert!), and it's a wonder there aren't pickets already forming around movie theaters. [/B] Roth, a high school English teacher in Los Angeles, writes on her animal rights Web site that "Curious George" reveals "the sinister side of a corrupt wildlife trade with perilous roots in Western imperialism." When the mischievous George is sent to jail, "the picture of the forlorn little primate alone in his cell conjures haunting images of countless monkeys lingering in laboratories, suffering silently and alone." That's a bit of a stretch, say the book's defenders, such as Frederick Meekins of [URL="http://www.theconservativevoice.com."]http://www.theconservativevoice.com.[/URL] "It's not like George ends up being used in laboratory experimentation," Meekins writes on his site. "From what's depicted in the storybooks, it always looked like he had a pretty good life, as do many other zoo animals." [/QUOTE]

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