Megan Udinski, FISM News
LGBT ideology continues to target children as it infiltrates the beloved children’s show, “Peppa Pig.”
In a controversial turn of events, the television series introduced its first same-sex couple in an episode that aired this past week titled, “Families.” Penny Polar Bear makes her debut by sharing how she lives with her two mommies and explaining what makes them so special.
While drawing a picture of her family, Penny states, “I’m Penny Polar Bear. I live with my mommy and my other mommy. One mommy is a doctor, and one mommy cooks spaghetti. I love spaghetti.”
Many on the left are praising the show for its step toward inclusivity. The UK’s Safe Schools Alliance, a grassroots organization focused on “The adoption of gender identity ideology in schools and its impact on the lives of children, especially girls,” tweeted their support.
Really nice to see age appropriate representation of same sex couples on @peppapig with Penny & her two mummies. We are loving "One mummy is a doctor and one mummy cooks spaghetti. I love spaghetti." #PrimaryRocks #WomenEd #LesbianVisibility #DiverseEd https://t.co/EuZPdDcUDK
— Safe Schools Alliance (@SafeSchools_UK) September 7, 2022
Another Twitter user asked rhetorically, “Peppa Pig has a new character with two moms and people say ‘why.’ Because that’s the reality for some children and representation matters. The end.”
Applying this tweet literally could cause a problem, however, as it would be nearly impossible to represent every variation of “family” experienced in the world, and, therefore, a show could never really be inclusive.
This move has also brought about much condemnation, and rightly so. Lavern Spicer, a Republican who ran for Congress in Florida, shared her disdain.
Peppa Pig is now teaching 3-year-olds about lesbian love.
Need I say more🤷🏾♀️
— Lavern Spicer 🇺🇸 (@lavern_spicer) September 8, 2022
Additionally, Matt Walsh, a conservative talk show host from the Daily Wire, pointed out that the show only added a homosexual couple because of the push from the left to do so.
They put gay characters in the show because leftists made a petition demanding it https://t.co/fSnmRebK3m
— Matt Walsh (@MattWalshBlog) September 8, 2022
Walsh is referring to the petition created in 2019 which accumulated approximately 24,000 votes for the children’s show to introduce a same-sex couple, stating, “Children watching Peppa Pig are at an impressionable age, and excluding same-sex families will teach them that only families with either a single parent or two parents of different sexes are normal.”
Peppa Pig originally faced backlash for only representing a traditional, albeit biblical, nuclear family, reinforcing stereotypical gender roles where the father goes to work and the mother stays at home.
The show has been accredited as a “global phenomenon,” and according to the production company, Entertainment One, it has been translated into 40 languages and broadcast in over 180 countries and territories, including the U.S.
The need to introduce a lesbian polar bear couple into a children’s television show is a further example of the left’s insistence that gender ideology and sexual preference be pushed on children.