Conservatives freaking out over Peppa Pig's introduction of a lesbian couple.

Lmao. It's so weird, I accept orientation as just a fact of life rather than political. Like there's always been lesbians, gay, trans even when there wasn't any word for them. It's just a reality but I don't know, conservatives are weird.

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Rolexeo · 26-30, M

Cause it's to push an agenda and it's revisionist, it's so up in your face now. Nobody cared years ago when this sort of thing happened because it was either implied or there was a reason for saying it. It added another dynamic to the character. Half the time now it's literally just an announcement to declare a character is gay, them being gay doesn't even exist in the actual media.

SatanBurger · 36-40, F

@Rolexeo If anything heterosexuality has always been revisionist. They're the ones who, throughout centuries, only they could exist. If some gay person was made public they were burned or locked up because it was considered a mental illness even though it's not. They're the ones who had to revise and hide the existence of LGBT people. LGBT people never revised anything, they were always here.

So now we are adding gay, trans and lesbian characters because it is accepted and with acceptance comes characters in books, movies and others because books and popular culture is a reflection of the way things are now, not the past.

As for Peppa, it's not revisionist, gay people have always been there and Peppa is a fictional show in which the plot can change at wim.

That's what tends to happen with cartoons.

Rolexeo · 26-30, M

@SatanBurger Nobody is talking about a hundred years ago or whatever. There's a difference between established characters that were already trans, gay, etc, or it was hinted at. And a character that was announced to be gay in the news or something, not even in universe, just because. Nobody has a problem with Poison from Street Fighter being trans, she was always trans, it'd be weird if all of a sudden she wasn't. What's being done now regularly is if they just decide Ryu is trans, like umm no, no he isn't lmao