Town Bans Winnie the Pooh for Being Half-Naked, Sexually “Dubious”

Town Bans Winnie the Pooh Being Half-Naked, Sexually "Dubious" — **STATUS**: The Slesingers have been pursuing Disney for three decades. They scored a win five years ago when a federal judge refused to terminate original creator A.A. Milne's copyright grant to Slesinger, but then suffered a loss in 2009 when a judge let Disney off the hook for infringement. The fight is likely to heat up with July's release of a new *Pooh* film (pictured).

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Here’s some news that would definitely lead Winnie the Pooh to exclaim, “Oh, bother.”

Lawmakers in the small town of Tuszyn, Poland, have voted to ban the honey-loving character from representing a playground due to the anthropomorphic bear’s lack of a clear gender identity and a propensity for going pants-less.

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Officials at a council meeting claimed that Winnie the Pooh is of “dubious sexuality” and is “inappropriately dressed” to be around children, given that the bear is “half-naked,” according to the Croatian Times.

“The problem with that bear is it doesn’t have a complete wardrobe,” said council person Ryszard Cichy, 46. “It is half-naked, which is wholly inappropriate for children.”

Another official said that Pooh Bear “doesn’t wear underpants because it doesn’t have a sex. It’s a hermaphrodite.”

Council person Hanna Jachimska criticized Winnie-the-Pooh author A.A. Milne for having “cut his [Pooh’s] testicles off with a razor blade because he had a problem with his identity.”

It had not been decided which character would instead represent the playground.

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Town Bans Winnie the Pooh for Being Half-Naked, Sexually “Dubious”

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