Worldwide kids’s TV sensation Peppa Pig has added a same-sex couple to its forged of characters. It's the first time within the present’s 18-year historical past that the programme has launched a household through which the dad and mom are LGBTQ+.
In an episode entitled Households, a personality referred to as Penny pronounces that her guardians are a pair of lesbian polar bears. “‘I dwell with my mummy and my different mummy. One mummy is a health care provider and one mummy cooks spaghetti,” she explains, earlier than viewers are proven the trio sitting right down to a household meal.
It follows years of campaigning for the programme to showcase a extra numerous choice of households. A petition to steer the sequence’ creators to incorporate a same-sex household launched two years in the past and gathered almost 24,000 signatures.
Peppa Pigg has beforehand made headlines after Boris Johnson praised it for exemplifying “the ability of UK creativity”, claiming it has introduced £6bn to the UK financial system by means of its export to 118 nations, with theme parks within the UK, the US and China.
The sequence has beforehand attracted criticism for reinforcing gender stereotypes. In addition to drawing disapproval for being overly centered on a extremely conventional middle-class nuclear household – that includes “mummy pig” taking care of the children whereas “daddy pig” goes out to work – the London Hearth Brigade spoke out in 2019 to criticise its utilization of the phrase “fireman”.
Its portrayal of Penny the Polar Bear’s household seems to have been higher acquired, nevertheless. Robbie de Santos, director of communications and exterior affairs at LGBT rights charity Stonewall, informed the BBC that he noticed the introduction of a same-sex couple as “implausible”.
“A lot of those that watch the present can have two mums or two dads themselves,” he commented. “It should imply rather a lot to oldsters and youngsters that their experiences are being represented on such an iconic kids’s programme.”
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