Friday, August 21, 2009

Henry Hudson she ain't....

Kids, listen up. You're being lied to.

Dora is NOT an explorer, not by any definition. In school, we learned that explorers go to uncharted territory to find new things, like Ponce de Leon and his trip to Florida to discover Disney World. We went over Vasco de Gama, Columbus, LaSalle, Lewis, Clark, William Shatner and others. No one ever mentioned Dora.

On her TV show...all the ones I've watched (and I've seen a lot of them) Dora always has a map. Yes a map, a map, a map. This makes her NOT an explorer. You can't discover something already on a map.

(The other possibility that Dora is perhaps a member of the division of the Boy Scouts, is by definition, not true, with her not being a boy and even the Supreme Court agrees she can't join.)

The episodes I've watched always have Dora needing to go from point A to point B (with her map, the map, the map, the map, the map) in order to save someone from a tree, go to Carnival or deliver invitations to a girl's sweet sixteen birthday party. Is this something you think Magellan would have done?

No, it's not Dora the Explorer...at best it's Dora the Errand Girl.