By Robert Scucci
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Eric Cartman has always had a complex relationship with women Southern park And there are so much to unpack by considering the hundreds of meetings he has throughout the series race. Although I can make an article on the cognitive dissonance that Cartman experiences when he gets a decline from the girls in his class while he has total control over his mother on the house front, I am here today to talk about something a little more … private.
Have you ever wondered why Cartman is still confused about female anatomy? Because the answer is sitting right in front of us since “Cartman’s mom of season 2 is always a dirty slut”. Learning that his father is in fact his mother, who turned out to be a hermaphrodite, there is a strong case to build around the fact that Cartman thinks that all women are hermaphroditic, which becomes apparent in subsequent seasons even if it is never explicitly stated.
You can’t kick women there
In “The List” of season 11, the boys discover that the girls in their class have a list that classifies each ugliest boy at most cute. Eric Cartman decides that women should not have this kind of power over them, and in the Southern park Fashion decides to steal the document from her female counterparts with the help of her friends.
Cartman, in his infinite wisdom, orchestrates a simple ambush plan to recover the list, and all his strategy is based on the fact that Butters kicks in the balls. Horrified that this offensive measure did not give the results they were looking for, the boys gather at Cartman, where he said: “Okay, our mission failed, but we have learned a lot. Mainly that girls have no balls.”
Face -to -face, Eric Cartman’s misunderstanding of the anatomy of women This Southern park The episode can be attributed to the fact that he is an 8 -year -old child who simply does not understand that boys and girls have different arrangements under the belt.
But this theme is visited throughout Southern park‘s Run, suggest that there is a deeper meaning when you consider Cartman’s perspective thanks to the unique circumstances surrounding his birth.
Always play ball in season 20
When the in progress quarrel of South Park’s boys with the girls in their class arrives at the head of the “members of the bays” of season 20, Cartman is hoisted by his own little. When he decides to take matters into his own hands. Directed of an ambush, Cartman ruptures and attracts female private parts to his own face as a way to suggest that the girls have held it and left their mark on their pursuit of online troll still known as Skankhunt42. The boys undress quickly for the lie of Cartman – which was to launch a war of the sexes – when Kyle stresses that women have no bullets, which Cartman included in the drawing on his face.
Eric Cartman, who is absolutely certain that women have, in fact, bullets, is left more confused than ever, while Kyle and the rest of the gang move on because he is an idiot.
Everything is a question of perspective
When you think about how Eric Cartman is sheltered Southern park Despite his sociopathic tendencies, it is logical that the only woman whom he has probably never seen naked by chance at that time of her life is his mother, Liane. In the mind of Cartman, since his mother is hermaphrodite, then every woman must be because that is all he has ever seen. Although Cartman is an evil genius and a master manipulator of the highest order in any other scenario, his limited knowledge of female anatomy has a lot of meaning because it is only a child and interacts with the world according to the limited information to which it is exposed, literally.
Point / counterpoint
Although there is an argument to be made on “201” of season 14, revealing that Cartman shares a father with Scott Tenorman, South Park’s The generally loose feeling of continuity allows you to consider this episode as non -canonical for two reasons.
Since Trey Parker and Matt Stone have been writing each episode week a week, they could not have known that they would deliver this twist in what was then considered their most controversial episode. Due to their representation of the Prophet Muhammad in “201” and his previous episode, “200”, this saga in two parts was withdrawn from the syndication and streamingThis means that fans of the show rarely see these episodes unless they have DVDs. Moreover, Southern park has always had a problem of continuity – as Kenny dies in each episode at the start of the seasons, only to be killed indefinitely before being reintroduced in the series as if nothing had happened.
In other words, and mostly Southern park Fans, Eric Cartman’s understanding of women and their anatomy is the most consistent with the theory above that his mother East A hermaphrodite, which biased its perception of more just sex because it simply knows not better.
