Peppa Pig has launched its first ever same-sex couple – and we couldn’t be extra thrilled.
In a nearly-aired episode, titled Households, Peppa chats to Penny Polar Bear, who casually mentions she has two mums.
Whereas drawing a portrait of her household, Penny explains: “I reside with my mummy and my different mummy. One mummy is a health care provider and one mummy cooks spaghetti.” What a combo.
Whereas there’s been a number of infuriatingly predictable responses on-line (sighs), we’d as an alternative prefer to give attention to the jolly reactions from dad and mom and training teams.
As a result of as many have identified, little kids actually don’t bat an eyelid when offered with LGBTQ+ relationships.
To them, they’re simply one other household to befriend.
The Channel 5 present’s new characters come after an internet petition calling for a same-sex household on Peppa Pig gained greater than 23,000 supporters.
“Youngsters watching Peppa Pig are at an impressionable age, and excluding same-sex households will educate them that solely households with both a single father or mother or two dad and mom of various sexes are regular,” the petition stated.
“Which means that kids of same-sex dad and mom could really feel alienated by Peppa Pig, and that different kids could also be extra prone to bully them, merely via ignorance.”
Peppa has additionally been accused of reinforcing gender stereotypes up to now, so it’s welcome information that producers are having a rethink.
The information is available in the identical week that Thomas the Tank Engine has introduced it’s introducing its first autistic character, voiced by nine-year-old autistic actor Elliott Garcia from Studying. His character will begin showing in episodes later this month.
What a good time for teenagers’ TV!
