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Title: Popeye
Post by AlterEgo on Dec 7^th, 2012, 10:09am

If you still think Popeye cartoons are just harmless fun... just why did Popeye seem to enjoy chasing men while wearing a dress :-)

Title: Re: Popeye
Post by cumbriahandyman on Dec 7^th, 2012, 9:05pm

:-?

Title: Re: Popeye
Post by CWatters on Dec 8^th, 2012, 12:02am

I tried to find an example online but best I could manage was this reference..

http://sanseverything.wordpress.com/2010/01/06/popeye-the-crossdressing-man/

Quote:

in his earliest comic strip incarnation in the 1930s, Popeye was shown to be an active and enthusiastic cross-dresser. As Boyd writes, “as I was reading the most recent Popeye volume (reprinting strips from December 1933 to July 1935), I came across something weird. Cartoonist E.C. Segar repeatedly has Popeye wearing women’s clothes–and liking it.”