Originally published at: Velma confirmed a lesbian in new 'Scooby-Doo' movie | Boing Boing
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OMG! This will piss off the conservatives! lol
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“It’s long been an open secret among fans and “Scooby-Doo” creatives that Velma is gay”
Daphne too, if you believe what a quick search at Pornhub tells you
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Sexualising a kids cartoon character?
Good look 
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my 7 year old self would be inconsolable. #teamvelma
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Now that I think about it I don’t think Scoob’s bestie ever DID shag anybody on screen in the original cartoon.
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I was just thinking about this. I only know the cartoons up to the mid-eighties, but in those I don’t recall any of the (human) gang showing any kind of sexual interest in anyone (I’m sure there must be an exception somewhere). But for a while, they did without Fred and Velma and I recall simply assuming that Daphne and Shaggy had become a couple.
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Time to dust off my old Velma costume again!
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Am I the only one? “Confirmed”?
Really, I thought everyone knew.
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right?! just like we all knew that Shaggy was a penultimate stoner and “Scooby snacks” was code for cannabis! i mean, the show was not subtle.
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There are subreddits dedicated to semi-nude Velma cosplayers who haven’t made this assumption.
Though maybe the target audience is not what I assumed?
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“No!! Not Velma, she’s the one I was attracted to!”
“Dude, she’s not real, you know that, right? If you’re hot for imaginary women then you’re not involuntarily celibate, you’re clueless.”
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Also, and I don’t know if anyone else caught onto this, but apparently they loosely implied that Shaggy might have used drugs.
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There’s nothing inherently wrong with getting hot for an imaginary character, but it takes a mind-boggling amount of entitlement to get angry just because the character doesn’t reciprocate.
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I’m just saying she could have at least responded to my letters!
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She ghosted you? How ironic.
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Smith College was not available for comment.
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Meddling kids!
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And she’d have gotten away with it too, if it hadn’t been for these meddling rebooters!
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Random Scooby-Doo origin (1969) notes: Shaggy is loosely based on Maynard G. Krebs (Bob Denver)(note the same beard) from The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis. This kinda makes Shaggy a Beatnik (not a hippy?).
There are Dobie Gillis cast members who one could guess were models for Daphne Blake and Velma Dinkley; not quite so much Fred Jones. Supposedly there are also elements from The Archie Show as your generic white teenage troupe at the time.
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