I’ve been aware of this for a while, but never really thought too much into it until I recently saw an old episode of Loony Tunes. It was one of those episodes where Elmer Fudd was hunting rabbits and that rabbit – of course – happened to be Bugs Bunny. Apparently the most clever rabbit of all time. Basically the same formula for all the episodes with those two characters. You know the routines if you watched it when you were younger. Bugs plugs Elmer’s gun with his finger and the gun blows up in Elmer’s face then Bugs kisses Elmer and runs away and jumps in a hole. Or the classic moment where Bugs dresses as a girl rabbit and somehow makes a pass at Elmer Fudd. Elmer always falls for this and falls completely in love with Bugs Bunny.  Elmer will then find out it is Bugs trying to trick him and the hunt resumes. Everyone passes this off at Bugs’ clever wit. But I feel that Bugs Bunny and Elmer Fudd are both gay.

Just because I’m a white, straight male born in a small town in Alberta doesn’t mean I’m against gay men having a cartoon icon, but the cartoon icon they have chosen (apparently) is SpongeBob SquarePants. Don’t believe me, read the Beginning, peak popularity (1999-2004) of the Wikipedia article on SpongeBob. If you read this section, you will see that the creators even stated that SpongeBob is asexual. This is, in fact, true to what SpongeBob is… a sea sponge. Actually sea sponges are hermaphrodites. They do have both sexual organs, but not in a way that humans can. Read the wiki article about sponges if you want to find out more. So if any group should pick SpongeBob as a cartoon icon it should be hermaphrodites.

In closing, I think Bugs and Elmer should tie the knot. And, from what I derive from this picture, Elmer has accepted the fact that Bugs is the dominate member of their same sex couple as he has outwitted him in so many meetings that he is clearly the big spoon. I wish them happiness in all their years of marriage and I hope they find acceptance in the world. Congratulations you two!

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