The English Knew It All Along

The adorable Belgian scamp Tintin, or "Tim [und Struppi]" as he's known in Germany, is gay, according to this Englishman, who should know: 

What debate can there be when the evidence is so overwhelmingly one-way? A callow, androgynous blonde-quiffed youth in funny trousers and a scarf moving into the country mansion of his best friend, a middle-aged sailor? A sweet-faced lad devoted to a fluffy white toy terrier, whose other closest pals are an inseparable couple of detectives in bowler hats, and whose only serious female friend is an opera diva... . . . And you're telling me Tintin isn't gay?

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Snowy: ["Struppi" in German] The only unambiguously heterosexual male mammal in Tintin's entire universe. We know that because of Snowy's tendency to be distracted by lady dogs: a tendency in which he is consistently foiled by his master and by Hergé's plot. Pity this dog, wretchedly straight and trapped in a ghastly web of gay human males.

Comments

[johannes]

> a fluffy white toy terrier

The wire fox terrier, or wire-haired fox terrier, is a working terrier, and not a toy breed. My grandfather owned one called 'Foxi', and it defeated our local game warden's boar-hunting dog in a fight. An English toy terrier does indeed exist, but it is an entirely different looking dog, smooth-haired, black and tan coloured, and much smaller.

[ian in hamburg]

Not that there's anything WRONG with that.

[Ligia]

Of course he´s gay. And that´s no news down here in South America, too. Well.. in fact, for the local macho-mentality, no other character could have more of the gayest features Tin Tin has.(...humm.. maybe Le Petit Prince??)