The Skunk in Bambi; The Skunk in us all?

His eyes are bigger than his hands.

We all can recognize a famous skunk when we see it. There really is only three or four- Pepe Le Pew, the purple one from Tiny Toons (Fifi LaFume? someone check that), Faizura Balk, and this little mother fucker right here. His name is Flower. And that should be point number one in a statement I'm about to make. Flower, the skunk from Bambi, is a civil rights leader for non-gay effeminate men. Effeminate men are often classified as gay, but that's just not true. A man can be anything he wants to be. He can hang out with other men with gay names like Bambi. He can teach butterflies to land on his nose. He can even learn from an owl that he isn't gay, that love will find him, and then rebuff that owl, only to go fuck someone nary 5 minutes afterward. I think I just gave you his whole role in the movie. (Research: in Bambi 2, Flower had a fear of skunks and yes, her name was Fifi La Fume). But lets think here. Disney totally told us this was a male character, then made it seem nothing but a girl. Big blue eyes! You know who else has those? Ariel the mermaid (and everyone). Men aren't supposed to be this shy, or wave like that. But Disney say something more in its audience. They saw they were ready for a non-gay effeminate character, because they weren't ready for a gay effeminate character, or even a gay butch character. Should we applaud Disney for making such a brave choice or simply stop and think about it even further? Further: Flower was just a relief character to distract us from mother's dying. He was a skunk- so already we're in for some laughs (coincidentally, he didn't make me laugh), and his effeminate nature surely was there for little girls to have something to do while Mother's die. Maybe this skunk isn't worthy of any 'exasperating upon' and is just another character lost in the sea of Disney buffoonary (along with the hummingbird in Pochahontas, Happy the Dwarf, Zazu from Lion King). But what is this we find? Animation gold- (quit watching after about one minute ten seconds):

That kiss, that kiss. It not only lets us know he is not gay, it let's us know he's a guy. And man, did he go stiff. You can read into that because you're older than 10 and perverted, but it's just a tremendous effort of imagination in animation. And that's why flower exists- that one of joke was good enough to validate an existence.