Nothing's Sacred: Popeye Turns Woke

Above, Popeye by Segar.

In today's insane world, culture, along with a lot of other things, is being perverted by wokeness.

The latest is Popeye the Sailor.

As this morning's post in The Federalist blog reports, Popeye has been around for nearly 100 years. He began as a side character in Segar's "Thimble Theater" comic strip and ended up taking over the strip. Popeye became so popular that he has received several animated cartoon series, most notably (and the best) the Max and Dave Fleischer cartoons of the 1930s.

According to Breitbart (via The Federalist):

After nearly a hundred years in existence, the Popeye comic strip is reportedly getting a woke makeover, with the strip’s latest cartoonist promising more ethnic diversity and “more characters who aren’t heterosexual.”

Cartoonist Randal K. Milholland described the Popeye character as being “gender fluid,” citing old episodes in which the plot required Popeye to dress in drag.

“I [want] to bring in more characters who aren’t heterosexual,” Milholland said in an interview with the San Antonio Express-News. “I don’t live in that purely straight white world, and I don’t think a lot of other people do either.”

In one of the strip’s biggest changes, Olive Oyl’s sister-in-law Cylinda Oyl is now Afro-Latina. Cylinda has traditionally been portrayed as a white woman with dark, bobbed hair.

No doubt Segar and the Fleischers are spinning in their graves.

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