14 DAY TRIAL // Back in August, Hello Kitty was revealed to be not a cat, but a little girl living in London, UK, and the world went bananas. The time has now come to expose yet another beloved character for what he really is. Fair warning: this piece of news is even more outrageous than the one about Hello Kitty.
To put it in a nutshell, it appears that world famous teddy bear Winnie the Pooh, otherwise known as Pooh Bear, is one of the most dubious forest dwellers ever to walk the face of the Earth. Long story short, he is a hermaphrodite.
Or so say a bunch of folks in the small city of Tuszyn in Poland, who are so convinced that this is Winnie the Pooh's true identity that they even went as far as to try and protect their kids from him by banning his image from a local playground.
Why Winnie is a hermaphrodite
The entire conundrum began when somebody proposed that Pooh Bear become the playground's patron. Members of the town council in Tuszyn took the time to discuss this proposal and, soon enough, it was decided that having Winnie the Pooh be the patron of a playground was a very bad idea.
Thus, the more conservative members of the council could not help but notice that, despite having plenty of leaves around to cover himself with, Pooh Bear is forever exposed from the waist down. The best explanation that they could come up with for the teddy bear's choice of outfit was that he was a hermaphrodite.
More precisely, they said that the only reason why Winnie the Pooh never put on pants – or a skirt or anything of the sorts, for that matter – was because he had nothing to hide. That's right, Pooh Bear's incomplete anatomy made him a hermaphrodite in the eyes of these council members.
True, scientists define hermaphrodites as animals, be they humans or any other creatures, that have both male and female reproductive organs, and Winnie the Pooh has no reproductive organs whatsoever. Still, this didn't keep the council members from denouncing him as hermaphrodite.
At least they didn't put the blame on him
Having decided that Pooh Bear was a hermaphrodite and therefore could not possibly be the patron of a playground, the council members tried to make it up to the poor creature by saying that it really wasn't his fault that he was such a freak that shouldn't be allowed anywhere near children.
They argued that author A. A. Milne, who created Pooh Bear back in the 1920s, was the one to blame for the fact that this character was such a dubious individual. More precisely, they turned against A. A. Milne for having erased all traces of reproductive organs and for allowing Winnie the Pooh to run around with no pants on.
“The problem with that bear is it doesn't have a complete wardrobe,” said a 46-year-old councilor named Ryszard Cichy, as cited by Daily Mail. “It is half-naked which is wholly inappropriate for children,” the man reportedly went on to explain.
For the time being, the children's playground in the city of Tuszyn in Poland does not yet have a patron. Still, it's pretty clear that Winnie the Pooh is no longer a candidate. One can only hope the poor alleged hermaphrodite will manage to overcome the trauma.
