• Source: Johnny the Walrus

Johnny the Walrus is a satirical 2022 children's picture book by American conservative political commentator Matt Walsh. The story allegorically compares being transgender and non-binary to pretending to be a walrus through the story of a child named Johnny. It was published by DW Books, a division of The Daily Wire.




Summary



In the book, Johnny is a boy with an imagination who dresses up as a walrus by using spoons as tusks. When "internet people" find out that Johnny enjoys being a walrus, he is forced to decide between being a boy or a walrus, and he is not allowed to change his mind. The "internet people" also pressure Johnny's mother into feeding Johnny worms and taking him to a doctor with a saw, who suggests turning Johnny's hands and feet into fins. Johnny's mother attempts to take him to a zoo to be with real walruses, but the real walruses do not like Johnny as he is not a walrus. The zoo also refuses to accept Johnny. Eventually, Johnny and his mother realize Johnny is a boy and that it's OK to play pretend while being yourself. They head home as Johnny pretends to be a bird.




Reception


Johnny the Walrus became the bestselling book in Amazon's LGBTQ+ category before Amazon recategorized it on December 10, 2021, to the Political and Social Commentary category. Walsh called the recategorization "an unconscionable attack on gay rights and a horrific example of homophobia and gay erasure." GLAAD, an LGBT media monitoring organization, had previously called for Amazon to remove the book from its LGBTQ+ category. On the same day, Target removed the book from its online bookstore.
Fox News host Tucker Carlson called the book "hilarious". Conservative news website TheBlaze called it "an effort to push back against radical gender ideology which defies biological reality." Satirist Andrew Doyle, writing in UnHerd, praised the book for mocking the "indoctrination of the young". LGBT news website PinkNews called the book "hateful" and "transphobic". LGBTQ Nation called the book "anti-transgender" and said that the book mocks transgender youth.




See also


Political satire
What Is a Woman?, a 2022 online documentary by Walsh about transgender issues in which he asks the titular question to various people.




References

Kata Kunci Pencarian:

• Daftar karakter Sonic the Hedgehog
• The Beatles
• New Bedford Whaling Museum
• Jim Carrey
• Arctic Monkeys
• Middlemost Post
• Daftar tokoh Disney
• Skotlandia
• Academy Award untuk Film Pendek Animasi Terbaik
• Procyonidae
• Johnny the Walrus
• Matt Walsh (political commentator)
• Jeremy Boreing
• Terror on the Prairie
• Convicting a Murderer
• What Is a Woman?
• The Hyperions
• Reasons to Vote for Democrats
• Irreversible Damage
• Criticism of Amazon