Does no one realize the sexual undertones of his name?
How can you not realized after all this time what they've been going for. Now people are shocked about a stripping scene, I mean come on he's been named after a p**** forever.
shareYou do know that "pussycat" is a term used for cats, right? It's been that way for a long time. Also, Puss in Boots from the Shrek movies was not an original character. He is actually a character from a french fairy tale called "Le Maistre Chat, ou Le Chat Botté." Dreamworks just used it in Shrek because the series is a parody of fairy tales. "Pussy" has been perverted to mean something sexual, but it is just another word for a cat. So, any "sexual undertones" comes from the way the word has changed in society, not from the original intention of the character.
shareTo me the English name, puss in boots, does have a kind of sexual undertone, even though I never thought that it was intended originally.
The original character from the fairytale never did have that undertone for me. I have known the fairytale since I was a child, but in my language the name of the character can in no way be associated with any female bodypart. Translated into English his name would simply mean "the booted cat".
As already stated, Puss In Boots is based on a french fairy tale that was first published in 1697. That was a pretty long time ago. After that it was adapted numerous times into other works, including tales by the brothers Grimm. It was also used by in Tchaikovsky's The Sleeping Beauty (the basis for the Walt Disney version) and by Disney himself.
The name "puss" as a reference to a cat is even older. Whatever sexual undertones you think there are in his name are a result of your own first grade mind at work. Reminds me of something Beavis and Butthead would say if they went to see this movie.
puss in boots was created centuries before pussy was used as another word for vagina.
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LOL! Because vagina was the preferred word used for a few millenia...you know...for centuries :) I'm sure on the tip of middle age serfs tongues...so to speak. :)
Apparently, dogs are wolves with Williams-Beuren Syndrome.
FWIW, the preferred term by the old English common folk was a slightly more vulgar word--one that starts with a c and rhymes with "punt." Some other favorite terms usually involved types of fish (especially, trout).
The cat reference didn't come along until the late 19th century.
There's also the word that originally meant rabbit, "cunny". That's much older than "pussy" being used for the same female body part in question.
" Reminds me of something Beavis and Butthead would say if they went to see this movie. "
hehehe I thought the same thing when i saw the title of this post!
I hate it when everybody looks at everything by TODAY'S standards, puss originally meant CAT, and also face I think.
At the theater where I worked people would asked for Goobers and giggle and act SO damn silly, it meant a peanut before it meant a part of the male anatomy.
Just because we lose today's battle doesn't mean we've lost tommorow's war.
The original term for cat is also "puss"... Shrek is a spinoff or parody of fairy tales...
Yeah, I think it was cat, then face, then vagina.
I've never heard of "goober" being used for penis, but I know it means "peanut" - I remember comics where Goofy would eat "magic goobers" and turn into Super Goof. :) As it is, my husband uses "goober" to describe what my cat does when she rubs her face on his pants (as in leaving both drool and snot behind), example: "stop goobering on me, you silly cat!"
For that matter, I was informed by ... an Algonquin, I think, or perhaps an Ojibwa, that in his language, "goof" meant something much worse than "idiot". (I have to take his word for it.)