Posted on 09/07/2022 3:00:28 PM PDT by Ennis85
Loved by pre-school audiences in the UK, US, Australia and Latin America, Peppa Pig is arguably one of the most recognisable - and popular - cartoon animals in the world.
It is perhaps no wonder, then, that the programme's decision to introduce its first same-sex couple has made waves.
During an episode titled Families, which first aired on Tuesday on Channel 5 in the UK, where Peppa Pig is made, the eponymous character was introduced to friend Penny Polar Bear's mothers.
While drawing a portrait of her family, Penny explained: "I live with my mummy and my other mummy. One mummy is a doctor and one mummy cooks spaghetti."
The programme, created by British animators Mark Baker and Neville Astley, has been running since 2004. This is the first time in its 18-year history a same-sex couple has been featured.
It comes two years after a petition was created on a US-based website, demanding a "same-sex parent family on Peppa Pig". It has garnered almost 24,000 signatures.
"Children watching Peppa Pig are at an impressionable age," the creators of the petition wrote. "Excluding same-sex families will teach them that only families with either a single parent or two parents of different sexes are normal."
Robbie de Santos, director of communications and external affairs at LGBT rights charity Stonewall, described seeing a same-sex family in fictional Peppatown as "fantastic".
"Many of those who watch the show will have two mums or two dads themselves and it will mean a lot to parents and children that their experiences are being represented on such an iconic children's programme," he told the BBC.
Peppa Pig is by no means the first children's programme to feature same-sex couples. US cartoon Arthur, aimed at four to eight-year-olds, won praise back in 2019 after it showed a
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“Excluding same-sex families will teach them that only families with either a single parent or two parents of different sexes are normal.”
In other words, it would teach them the truth.
GOOD GOD these leftist DOUCHE BAGS DESTROY EVERYTHING DECENT..my nephew used to love watching that show, NO MORE, DONE
Does this air on the gay porn channel?
They’re looking to take over the world. This isn’t localized socialism. They want a global central hegemony. And they’re moving very fast to get it.
Great. Even cartoon pigs have to be lesbians now.
Smh…
The reason the Democrats want to provide $$ for preschoolers is so they can start brainwashing 3 to 5 year old children which includes perversion like this.
+1
Perverts want to pervert your kids from about 4yrs old on. They’ll do anything to get this garbage into your kids heads.
“many” like in 5
Homosexual act should gave always been and remained illegal.
Had anyone here watched Peppa Pig? It’s funny as hell!
I love that show. Daddy pig is my spirit animal.
Just say no to Peppa the pig
There is nothing they won’t defile.
The West is Satanic.
That show was about the last refuge for traditional values…. And now the wokies have breached the gates there, too.
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