Calm down everyone

Actually there have been grumblings about Thomas the Tank Engine for years.

It *is* old fashioned, authoritarian and patriachal. It's down on women, punishes inquisitiveness and has clear class divides. All this is presented as a good thing. This is well known and undersood.

Funny thing is though, children with autism love it!

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Posted By: norway on July 23rd 2014 at 13:56:34

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Peak Guardian (General Chat) - Arizona Bay, Jul 23, 13:32:35
- Sodor isn't the worst place to be filled with black smoke (n/m) (General Chat) - pants, Jul 23, 14:52:45
- oh dear god.. making a link between black smoke for bad engines being racist.... (n/m) (General Chat) - Tony Martin, Jul 23, 14:03:21
  - the bad engines were diesels... which do actually pump out black smoke. (General Chat) - phrankin, Jul 23, 14:06:08
  - As many have pointed out, the white smoke is steam (General Chat) - yarmyyarmy, Jul 23, 14:05:11
    - not exactly... steam trains burn coal to produce the steam (General Chat) - phrankin, Jul 23, 14:22:29
    - lol. shhhh its racism!! cant you see it!? (n/m) (General Chat) - Tony Martin, Jul 23, 14:07:03
- Calm down everyone (General Chat) - norway, Jul 23, 13:56:34
  - It's also offensive to station controllers with weight-issues. (n/m) (General Chat) - bird table, Jul 23, 15:08:42
  - ta for the link - v interesting (General Chat) - CWC, Jul 23, 14:08:01
  - typical Guardian piece imo... (n/m) (General Chat) - phrankin, Jul 23, 14:00:42
    - Yes I know. (General Chat) - norway, Jul 23, 14:01:47
  - Did you read the stuff about the black and white smoke? (General Chat) - yarmyyarmy, Jul 23, 13:58:18
    - That's going too far, clearly (General Chat) - norway, Jul 23, 14:00:52
      - It's demented sanctimonious pish from start to finish (General Chat) - yarmyyarmy, Jul 23, 14:09:16
  - Also it appears that this writer (General Chat) - norway, Jul 23, 13:57:41
- Stupid cow (n/m) (General Chat) - colincanary, Jul 23, 13:53:56
- hahahahahhaha (n/m) (General Chat) - phrankin, Jul 23, 13:51:49
- Tracie van Slyke needs to get a fucking life...... (General Chat) - Kirrie, Jul 23, 13:45:12
  - you didn't get screwed up kids in the past? (n/m) (General Chat) - Brandonio, Jul 23, 15:15:19
    - No, in the 1950s when women and colonials knew their place everyone was perfectly well adj (General Chat) - Arizona Bay, Jul 23, 17:05:56
  - Whooshed or otherwise! (n/m) (General Chat) - Kirrie, Jul 23, 13:45:52
- What a load o f (n/m) (General Chat) - emmaroyds, Jul 23, 13:39:47
  - what a load of horse shit if she is being serious (General Chat) - emmaroyds, Jul 23, 13:41:35
- Am I being whooshed, or is it epic irony? (General Chat) - yarmyyarmy, Jul 23, 13:39:14
  - yes, it's just clickbait (General Chat) - CWC, Jul 23, 13:40:38
    - "She researches and writes about the intersection of social justice and pop culture" (General Chat) - phrankin, Jul 23, 13:54:26
      - To be fair, even if that TTTE article was the entirety of her printed output, it's still (General Chat) - Arizona Bay, Jul 23, 15:13:01
        
        Very harsh (General Chat) - Worzel Scrimmage, Jul 23, 20:04:22
        
        THWACK boioioioioing (General Chat) - norway, Jul 23, 15:22:20
      - Bet she's a great night out (n/m) (General Chat) - colincanary, Jul 23, 13:57:55

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