re: #718 Sharmuta

You are right. Almost unavoidable.

People promote the phallus without giving it thought.

A couple yeas back I was asked to consult for some people who wanted to start a children’s show named “Yo Gabba Gabba”

They have these happy monster characters that appeal to young children but they were having a problem with one eyed character named “One Eyed Ricardo” who looked like a big, olive skinned dick. Ricardo was developed to be the leader of the monsters and tell them what to do and how to behave.

Well I could not be contained.

I pointed out that “Ricardo” is the Latin Male version of “Richard” which gets shortened to “Dick.” I also pointed out that he was dominating the group and silencing the female monsters through his dominating presence, and that these sex roles were going to be implanted in the minds of young girls - girls who would grow up craving to please the phallus.

Well that got them thinking! They told me to transform “Ricardo”. Rather than throwout his phallic tendencies I chose sexual honesty - I chose to portray the phallus honestly to better prepare these young girls. So I did a few things to portray the true phallus -

1) I made him stupid
2) I changed him to a red hot, almost throbbing color
3) I gave him all sorts of warts se he looked like an STD “after” picture
4) Just in case any girls found the bumps subconsciously appealing, I gave him sharp teeth and an overbite.

Here is his picture

They loved the new character and asked me to name him. I was doing my research on the phallic dominance of the number “1” and wanted to keep an ethnic homage to “Ricardo” so I took the number “uno” and put an “M” (for male) in front of it - that is the story of “Muno”