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# Popeye the Sailor Is Now Gender-Fluid
- URL: https://goodoil.news/popeye-the-sailor-is-now-gender-fluid/
- Published: 2022-07-17T02:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2022-07-16T05:28:33.000Z
- Author: Guest Post
- Tags: Education, History, World Politics, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-16 23:04

[familyfirst.org.nz](https://familyfirst.org.nz/2022/07/15/popeye-the-sailor-is-no-longer-male-but-is-now-gender-fluid/?ref=goodoil.news)

“Ahoy, shiver me timbers”, the seas are getting rough for poor old Popeye the Sailor.

Dating back nearly 100 years, Popeye has been the loveable, one-eyed sailor that’s instantly recognisable for his huge forearms, anchor tattoos, and trusty pipe. Popeye gets his superhuman strength from guzzling down a can of spinach. What’s not to like.

But “Blow me down”, the rough and tough sailor is about to become very woke and gender-fluid. Going forward, Gender Ideology and Critical Race Theory will be now written into the Popeye story, so as to make Popeye ***“less heterosexual”***.

Popeye was created in 1928, by Elzie Crisler Segar. But the syndicated comic strip is now in the hands of woke cartoonist Randal K Milholland who is intent on transforming Popeye into a gender-fluid icon.

> **“I want to bring in more characters who aren’t heterosexual*. I don’t live in that purely straight white world, and I don’t think a lot of other people do either,”* says Milholland.

Pushing back on gender norms, Milholland said the main character, Popeye, **“should not be thought of only as a male”** **.**

> **“If you go by today’s definition, Popeye was gender fluid,”* the cartoonist said.*

The official Popeye Twitter account recently announced a pride month shirt that presents Popeye standing in front of a ‘rainbow’ anchor. Much like Disney, it’s very likely Popeye will go woke, then broke.

Read more [here](https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2022/07/06/popeye-comic-strip-getting-woke-makeover-with-more-characters-who-arent-heterosexual/?ref=goodoil.news).

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Image Credit: [familyfirst.org.nz](https://familyfirst.org.nz/2022/07/15/popeye-the-sailor-is-no-longer-male-but-is-now-gender-fluid/?ref=goodoil.news)

\*This post was written by Family First staff writers.

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