The first Paw Patrol movie is about a corrupt and incompetent mayor who accumulates too much power, wrongfully imprisons dogs, and must be stopped, for the good of the public. At least, that’s how it’s presented at first glance.
But if you peel back the layers, it’s really about the elected leader in a two-party system, from the cat party, being overthrown by the dog party (note that all first responders seem to be from the same political party), for daring to put the dogs in obedience school (that is, requiring first responders to actually abide by the rules of their society). Worst part is that the mayor isn’t even mayor of the same town - the dogs go to the next city over to overthrow that political leader, akin to some kind of cold war era foreign-orchestrated coup.
this is the medium article linked in the post: The Misogyny and Authoritarianism of ‘Paw Patrol’
That article gets cut off. I could remove it on my computer but I figured the archive would work.
I’m not sure what I’m doing wrong though. Whenever I scroll down the page gets reloaded.
Edit: I kept going back and eventually found a snapshot that worked https://web.archive.org/web/20190212082650/https://medium.com/s/story/paw-patrol-is-a-republican-dystopia-f178161fce54
The underlying issue is that Medium enshittified basically overnight, as soon as it had inertia. Went from ‘text is cheap, put your stuff here!’ to ‘how dare anyone expect our servers to work for free, here’s a gigantic fat image instead of the kilobyte of content.’
This was a while ago.
Good thing I’ve been avoiding medium since its inception. At the start, it was edgy “influencer” types who didn’t want to pay for hosting, and now it’s edgy “influencer” types who obsess over copyright.
If all dogs go to heaven and all cops go to hell, then where do k9’s go? Purgatory?
I thought someone might have already shared this…
It was in the comments on another post a few weeks ago and I ended up watching the whole thing.
The next step is an episode where they call a black dog a thug and justify shooting it.
Intentional or not paw patrol always reeked of police state propaganda, so somehow calling the sanitation worker a mongerel fits with my expectations.
