![]() ![]() Must preface this with: I had a sorta deprived childhood where I wasn’t read to and books were missing in our home so I’m not really up on a lot of fairy tales, other than what one can pick up by merely existing. Liss, I just watched Shrek 2 the other night and loved it!!! (Haven’t seen 1.) The treatment is still less than ideal – the character’s appearance is ridiculed more than once – but having been presented as a freakish misfit in the second film, the inclusion as a friend and member of Fiona’s social circle in the third is a significant improvement. (Baby showers: bringing the world together, one set of disaffected fairytale folk at a time!) Somewhere between the second and third films, she goes from minor background villain to likable and accepted member of Fiona’s posse. ![]() ![]() While encouraging, the explanation for Doris’ change of heart is never really addressed, at least not that I can recall. In Shrek the Third, someone asks after her at the Apple and is told in response that she ain’t welcome there anymore (presumably, because Doris has gone from being an outcast to part of Fiona’s social circle). Or even just a drag queen.įar more confusing than the character’s gender presentation is the character’s motivation, frankly… Doris first appears in Shrek 2 as the disgruntled bartender of The Poisoned Apple, hangout for villains and other fairytale misanthropes who feel unwelcome in fairytale society. Okay, now I’m reading more about these complaints, and I can’t even tell if the character is transgendered or a transvestite. Once again, an ogre proves to be more civilized than a conservative. But even so, no one else in the film seems to have a problem with Doris as part of their family, and neither should we. Are we really going to feign the same outrage, and cry about how the acceptance of these concepts is going to move “our world toward sexual chaos” (actual quotes)? About the only remotely sexual acitvity occurring in Shrek is between Shrek and Fiona, a heterosexual married couple. Furthermore, this herald of family values must realize they are whistling the same tune the conservative set sang upon the release of Shrek 2, when Doris made her first appearance. Or has this person never seen a Shrek movie before? Because if they had, they would realize that the whole message of Shrek is to encourage acceptance of others, no matter what shape, size, color, or other characteristic. Surely people don’t think in such simpleton terms anymore. This useless article goes on to call out “homosexual activists” for trying to push their equal rights agenda in order to be free to “publicly demonstrate their odd sexual behavior.” If I didn’t know better, I would have thought that this was a lame Onion parody of a conservative fuddy duddy. The pearl-clutching “film critic” was aghast that this “useless character” was placed in the midst of Snow White, Cinderella, and the traditional family values of Shrek and Fiona. Apparently, some conservatives are miffed that the latest Shrek movie, Shrek the Third, contains a crossdressing character – Doris, the Ugly Stepsister. ![]()
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