Are talking animals more of a guy thing?

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• Tachyon

  2014-12-15 10:04:01

  ^{i will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch}
  

  i don't think so
  
  i think Maid Marian not being a Disney Princess is more about consistency and maybe also her not being as pretty as the others, in conventional terms
  
  and most people don't like furries
  
• Anonus

  2014-12-15 10:04:26

  I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat

  I wonder why that is

  
  

  Most people seem to kind of hate animals in general
• Tachyon

  2014-12-15 10:05:38

  ^{i will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch}
  

  ???
  
  not in my experience!
  
  most people like animals, or at least certain animals (dogs and cats being popular)
  
  cartoon animals less so
  
• Anonus

  2014-12-15 10:06:47

  I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat

  I wish normal people didn't sneer upon animation like they seem to
• Tachyon

  2014-12-15 10:09:37

  ^{i will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch}
  

  yeah, that's annoying
  
  and i guess it's probably part and parcel of that
  
  although to my mind cartoon animals ≠ furries
  
  also you can like cartoons but be not into talking animals
• Anonus

  2014-12-15 10:13:49

  I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat

  hopefully over the next couple of decades the normal people will sneer upon animation less

  
  

  because, well, our generation grew up watching things with multigenerational appeal that weren't just devised to fill space between ads for cereal and toys and such (like Saturday morning was for pretty much the whole of the institution's heyday)
• Tachyon

  2014-12-15 10:16:34

  ^{i will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch}
  

  i think perhaps the success of shows like The Simpsons and Family Guy, as well as some of the anime aimed at older viewers, might have given our generation a more favourable view of animation
  
  previously the perception was that animation was just for kids, and that animation aimed at adults was a very niche market
  
  that's changed
  
• Tachyon

  2014-12-15 10:17:17

  ^{i will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch}
  

  that's basically what you just said, i guess
  
• One-Winged Eagle

  2014-12-15 12:14:19

  Man is a most complex simple creature: see what he weaves, and how base his reasons for doing so.

  Your face is more of a guy thing.
• Imipolex G

  2014-12-15 18:11:07

  Touch the cow. Do it now.
  

  my sister was always much more into talking animals than I was
  
  /proof by anecdote
  
• PatchAwful

  2014-12-16 02:17:45

  The Mysterious Ballerina and her Tree Stump Ghosts

  I'd like to think that animation has worked to solve its age-range image problems recently, although I'll admit that I'm a bit jaded from seeing various versions of the same 'X: No Longer Just For Kids' articles written again and again every couple years.
  
  One issue I've found is often there's a feeling that the demarcation between what is and isn't 'for kids' has to be set very clearly in animation, which sometimes leads to cartoons aimed at adults going too far in the other direction (so to prove it isn't for kids, then it must not be suitable for kids). Not always an issue for the shows themselves, even if I personally might not be a fan of it, but it might be a problem for the genre as a whole if these are the only shows that are able to be made.