Winnie the Pooh's Gender Mystery

Winnie is a character in the American Disney cartoon "Winnie the Pooh", which was born on December 24, 1925. The cartoon was published in the London Evening News.

Winnie the Pooh is an animated film released in 2011. The film is directed by directors such as Steven J. Anderson and Stephen J. Anderson. The film is adapted from three stories in the book of AA Milne, the original author of Winnie the Pooh. It tells the story of Eeyore losing his tail and Robin suggesting whoever finds a replacement for Eeyore first will win a jar of fresh honey. Although "Winnie" is a female name, "Winnie the Pooh" is a male bear, because the word "Winnie" is actually a reference to the bear in his hometown of Winnie, the capital of Manitoba, Canada. Abbreviation for Winnipeg. As for "Pooh", it is mentioned in the preface of "Winnie-the-Pooh", the first book of the Winnie-the-Pooh series, that "Pooh" was the name given to a swan by Robin, the owner of Pooh; Pooh, Pooh sound comes from his mouth when blowing away the bees parked on his nose.

However, in 2014, Winnie the Pooh was banned by the small town of Tushin in central Poland because of his "unknown sexual orientation", "undressed" and "semi-naked", and was prohibited from appearing in the local playground. "Winnie the Pooh" is a cartoon character loved by children. Many toys, books and games are based on this little bear in a red shirt. But not everyone loves "Pooh". In the central Polish town of Tuszyn, local authorities have decided to strictly ban "Pooh" from local children's playgrounds because of his "inappropriate" clothes and his gender. Make people suspicious. The town is considering a meaningful mascot for the local kids' new playground, with a proposal for "Winnie the Pooh". However, some MPs opposed the proposal, claiming that Pooh would have a bad effect on children. There are reports that if you look at the design alone, "Winnie the Pooh" does seem to be wearing only a red top and no bottoms. Also, the name "Pooh" is generally a girl's name in the English-speaking world, but the voices in the "Winnie the Pooh" animation are all male, so the Polish authorities made this decision. A spokesman for the local authority in Tushin explained that the problem was that Pooh's wardrobe may have been under-equipped, making it "half-naked" and totally unsuitable for children. The spokesperson further stated that in Poland teddy bears are generally dressed from head to toe. According to local media reports, the Tushin authorities' discussion of "Winnie the Pooh" was secretly filmed, and the video circulated to local reporters. It is said that one of the local councillors specifically pointed out the gender issue of "Winnie the Pooh" during the discussion. It is understood that at that time, the question of "Whether 'Winnie the Pooh' does not wear pants means no gender". According to the report, local authorities have not yet decided what to replace "Pooh" with, but, in any case, "Pooh" is unlucky: it is temporarily unavailable at local playgrounds. Officials in the central Polish city of Tuszyn even personally attacked author Alan Alexander Milne, calling him "disturbing." But a book published in Canada in 2015 - "Finding Winnie: The True Story of the World's Most Famous Bear" explained the mystery of Winnie the Pooh's gender, saying that Winnie the Pooh was not "he", but "she", a A female bear from Canada. The author of the book, Lindsay Mattick, wrote in the book: "Winnie The Pooh Is Actually A Girl!" The great-granddaughter of Captain Harry Colborn, who bought the cub and fostered it at the London Zoo, so she swore that Winnie was a Canadian female bear.

As soon as the book came out, many netizens cried and shouted that they "destroyed childhood". There is a website that immediately does a "Vote for Winnie the Pooh is a boy or a girl" survey. As a result, 89% of netizens firmly believed that Winnie the Pooh must be a boy. More senior Winnie fans jumped out to refute the book's author: "Maybe the real bear is female, but Winnie the Pooh is called 'he' in the entire series of books, and the dubbing in the cartoon is a male voice with a British accent. , even the theme song sings 'He's...'".

In addition to gender, the origin of Winnie the Pooh is also a mystery. Although the Americans "popularized" Winnie in the 1960s and 1970s, the British expressed dissatisfaction because the "father of Winnie the Pooh" was obviously the British writer A.A. Milne. It is said that his son Christopher Robin received a teddy bear named Edward for his first birthday. But Robin likes a bear named Winnie at the London Zoo so much that he renamed his teddy bear Pooh. This is the origin of the familiar Winnie the Pooh, but Lindsay Mattick's "Finding Pooh" offers more. This version of the story begins in 1914. At that time, during the "World War I", a Canadian captain named Harry Colburn was walking along Lake Ontario when he spent 20 Canadian dollars to buy a cub from the hunter, and the bear's mother had just been beaten by the hunter. die. The captain named the bear Winnie after his hometown, Winnipeg, and brought it to the unit. Soldiers love Pooh and often play with him and even regard him as a mascot. Captain Harry's troops were first transferred to London, and then to France. For safety reasons, they put Pooh in foster care at the London Zoo. Pooh, who has always lived with humans, has a good temper, so he is famous at the London Zoo. The aforementioned writer, Milne, also often takes his son Robin to see Pooh, and Robin even goes into the cage to feed Pooh milk. Companionship is the most affectionate confession. Needless to say, the friendship between Robin and Pooh also provided Milne with a lot of creative material. From this perspective, "Winnie the Pooh" is native to Winnipeg, the capital of Manitoba, Canada.