By Patrick Cooney
The Disney film, Finding Nemo, lied to your kids! Disney would simply argue that they altered reality to create a more entertaining storyline, but read below for the true story, and you tell me which you think is a more entertaining.
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| Disney forced them to hide the truth! |
Father and mother clownfish are tending to their clutch of eggs at their sea anemone when the mother is eaten by a barracuda. Nemo is the only surviving egg and he grows up in his father’s anemone before getting lost on a crazy adventure!
Video of the opening scenes:
How Finding Nemo should have started if it were biologically accurate:
Father and mother clownfish are tending to their clutch of eggs at their sea anemone when the mother is eaten by a barracuda. Nemo hatches as an undifferentiated hermaphrodite (as all clownfish are born) while his father transforms into a female now that his female mate is dead. Since Nemo is the only other clownfish around, he becomes a male and mates with his father (who is now a female). Should his father die, Nemo would change into a female and mate with another male. Although a much different storyline, it still sounds like a crazy adventure!
Video of the truth:
As you can see, the first minute of Finding Nemo, outside of the talking fish part, is the only biologically accurate part of the movie. Considering that they demonstrate reproduction and the killing of the mother in the first minute of the movie, how did they decide that a natural sex change is outside the bubble of viewable material?
Fish reproduction is complicated, and it is especially complicated in cases like the clownfish where species are sequential hermaphrodites. These fish are born as hermaphrodites that develop as one gender before changing to the other gender at some point in their life.
Unlike clownfish that start life as males and transform into females, there are other species, like the California Sheephead, that start as females and transform into males. These opposing forms of sequential hermaphrodites are called protandrous hermaphrodites for male to female changing species, and protogynous hermaphrodites for those that change from female to male.
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| The truth! |
A sequential hermaphrodite life history strategy can be extremely detrimental if harvest of fish is allowed prior to male or female reproductive sizes. Should all males be harvested before turning into females at a certain size (or vice versa), a rapid decline would occur in the population. Understanding the triggers and sizes at which fish shift from one sex to the other greatly enhances the ability of fisheries managers to set proper length limits for long term fish population health.
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Given this came out in 2003, I have a feeling that Disney would want to avoid acknowledging anything transgender. Maybe if it had been released a few years from now they’d consider the public more accepting 🙂
I think you should let the movie stay to the kids why would a 2 year old care about sex change or the reproductive system
Honestly i dont think transgender was the biggest issue.
I don’t think it would be widely accepted to the public by showing the father fish become a girl after the mother dies AND THEN BREED WITH HIS SON. I think THATS the part you guys should have focused on… theres no way anyone would accept that trans or not AND IT WOULD PUSH OUT A TERRIBLE IMAGE OF TRANSGENDER REPRESENTATION, So no disney didnt lie, its just fact that aint NOBODY gonna let there kids see a fish dad turn into a mom and fuck their son. (Really they lay eggs and fertilize them but same shit)
Please go away.. do children need to understand transgender dysphoria at such a young age? No they don’t, Let them be kids.
I totally agree it would be extremely disturbing to see the father fish turn into the mother fish and then mate with their own son! That would be really fucked up giving the idea that it is ok for a parent to mate with their young, regardless if that really happens in the fish world or not…That is Extremely Dark and perverse for a child Disney movie!
I think it was just fine the way it was! Honestly! You people just do not want to let children be children! You want to strip their innocence from them before they are old enough to even understand anything about it!
This is one of the stupidest articles I’ve ever seen. This movie was targeted at kids. Focusing on biological accuracy would not only destroy the plot and enjoyment of the movie, but it would also have made no sense to its intended audience. You are just trying o find something wrong in this movie
I’m surprised. Disney missed an awesome chance to create a movie with the first transgender Princess, and missed their mark. Maybe they’re saving it for the final film of the trilogy: Finding Miss Merlin
Really no something is wrong with you if you think kids should be exposed to something like this.
Honestly, i laughed when i read this article. Sorry, stop advocating for teaching gender dysphoria to kids. Just because some lower-order animals do this, this makes it right to demand this teaching on kids? I just shake my head at the stupidity of today’s society. clearly, the activists are trying to infiltrate wherever they can to fill the next generation of kids’ heads with their ideas.
The article has nothing to do with gender dysphoria, for fish do not care about their gender.
Hahahaha that response will never age
I agree with everyone else that commented about your stupid,gross,perverted & absolutely WRONG AS HECK MESSED 🆙 IDEA FOR THIS CHILDREN’S MOVIE.I don’t 🤔 that it would be appropriate none whatsoever at all for my own amazing baby boys to honestly watch with their beautiful & innocent as can preciously perfect blue 👀.Yes I would always ❤️ my baby boys no matter what choices they might end 🆙 making in their bright wonderful futures but I’m never going to MAKE MY BABY BOYS POTENTIALLY BECOME A TRANSGENDER BY ME MAKING THEM WATCH MOVIES WITH PEOPLE PUTTING IT IN THEIR HEADS ABOUT HOW NORMAL OR HOW INCREDIBLE IT WOULD BE IF THEY WOULD BECOME ONE LATER ON IN THEIR LIVES.Also your incredibly stupid idea for this wonderful beautiful movie about how he would become a female & then him PORKING HIS OWN SON WOULD BE TRULY TELLING THE FREAKED 🆙 PIECES OF 💩 CHILD PEDOPHILES OUT THERE THAT THEY’RE NOT DOING NOTHING FREAKING WRONG & IT WOULD EVEN BE TRUTHFULLY TELLING ALL CHILDREN THAT IT WOULDN’T BE NOTHING WRONG AT ALL IF A ADULT WOULD TRY RAPING THEM ESPECIALLY IF IT WAS THEIR OWN DAMN PARENT SO YES I BELIEVE YOU ARE MESSED UP EVEN THINKING ABOUT SOME BULL 💩 LIKE YOU CAME 🆙 WITH IN YOUR OBVIOUSLY SICK DAMN HEAD.You’re a gross person for saying this shit about this movie like you did.I sure as heck don’t believe most scientists would ever agree with your freaked 🆙 suggestion.I was & still am kinda upset about everything you said because I’ve been the sexually abused little girl quite a few times & I’m still not over it so yes your idea sickens me extremely.Go have your nasty head evaluated quickly because you sure as heck sound like a potential CHILD RAPING FREAK EXACTLY HOW MY FAMILY MEMBERS WERE WHO MOLESTED ME MORE THAN ONCE,TWICE,THRICE,•••••••••••••••••
This article is disgusting and perverted my kids are currently watching this movie right now I don’t think my seven-year-old my 3-year-old and my 2-year-old daughter would actually care about a male fish changing genders and having sex with his son. A show like this that is specifically for children or a family movie or shouldn’t be subjected to something like that and then for you blatantly telling us that Disney lied to our children no they didn’t they just left out biological parts that happens first of all I don’t want my children’s mind being warped and I damn sure don’t want it my children seeing a boy fish turn into a girl fish because his wife died.
It is a sorry state indeed when people can make eye catching sentences that they have no idea what the heck they are talking about. Nowhere did I ever see that Disney proclaimed any of their fish were factual. It is a fictional story and, it is their story to make up however they would like. Gosh I’m surprised that you didn’t mention the vegetarian shark. So in the future would you please write about something that you know about as you do not seem to have grasped the difference between real life and fiction. Here is an example: In real life you need to research everything you can about your subject to write the truth. In fiction anything you want to happen in your story “can”.