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[which_chick]

Heads Up for Nickelodeon and Paramount Pictures: If you are making a movie (like, say, Barnyard) that includes talking cows with visible udders, it is a faux pas to make those cows have boy voices. All cows that have visible udders are girl cows and should have girl voices. There are no boy cows with visible udders. None. Boy cows have entirely different parts that are entirely un-udder-like. The reason that girl cows have visible udders is that they have given birth to a baby cow (technical term is calf) and are producing milk to feed it. Ipso facto, they are not male. Please see to it that this is corrected before the movie actually hits theaters. Kthxbye!

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Well, none of them, I suspect. But I'm tired of the amount of bovine-cluelessness that I have to deal with and this movie isn't helping.

Honestly. I should not have people whining about "Gee, if veal is so wrong, why don't they just stop making veal calves?" because they totally fail to understand that veal calves are a side effect of Milk, It Does A Body Good. It is not currently cost-effective to make milk without the production of excess, mostly-useless boy calves.

Many (otherwise rational, adult) people do not grasp that milk comes only from girl cows. Having boy-voiced cows with visible udders in the movies is not helping matters on this front.

From the preview, they're trying to do a buddy movie, with a group of guys. That would be fine, but they're USING dairy cows. With udders. They could have used beeves. That'd have worked fine. If they had made 'em all whitefaces, I would not have said word one. But they made them freaking dairy cows. With udders. And then they gave them boy voices. ALL of them have boy voices -- it's not just a casting issue for one or two of the cows.

Not to get too overwrought on the issues of queerness involved in clearly female cows that talk with male voices, one of the other previews on the DVD is She's the Man -- a chick-in-drag film populated with a nice cast of young pretty things. I could probably watch that just for the eye candy factor. )