Children’s show ‘Peppa Pig’ introduces first ever gay characters – Times Now
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Peppa Pig is at it again. Having stirred up a hornet’s nest by continually fat shaming Daddy Pig for being a bit porky, the much-loved children’s show has introduced its first gay characters, a couple of lesbian polar bears.
A new episode called “Families” has Penny Polar Bear telling Peppa about her two mothers, “One mummy is a doctor and one mummy cooks spaghetti… I love spaghetti.”
This could open the door to fathers — long stigmatised by Peppa’s eternal catchphrase, “Silly Daddy” — demanding a reassessment of Daddy Pig, forever portrayed as being lazy, forgetful and a bit useless.
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Even Peppa fans like former British leader Boris Johnson — who could never be accused of such failings — have been troubled by the show’s anti-boar bias. He once complained during a famously shambolic speech that it was “a bit stereotypical” about papa pigs.