The popular animated children’s TV show Peppa Pig has introduced its first lesbian couple. In a new episode which aired on Channel 5 on Tuesday, Penny the Polar Bear, drawing her parents, reveals to Peppa that she has “two mummies.”
Both female parents are seen wearing dresses, while enjoying a family dinner at home with their daughter.
“I live with my mummy and my other mummy. One mummy is a doctor and one mummy cooks spaghetti. I love spaghetti,” Penny says.
LGBTQ charity Stonewall welcomed the “fantastic” news.
>It comes two years after a petition was created on a US-based website, demanding a "same-sex parent family on Peppa Pig". It has garnered almost 24,000 signatures.
>"Children watching Peppa Pig are at an impressionable age," the creators of the petition wrote. "Excluding same-sex families will teach them that only families with either a single parent or two parents of different sexes are normal."
>Robbie de Santos, director of communications and external affairs at LGBT rights charity Stonewall, described seeing a same-sex family in fictional Peppatown as "fantastic".
>"Many of those who watch the show will have two mums or two dads themselves and it will mean a lot to parents and children that their experiences are being represented on such an iconic children's programme," he told the BBC.
this type of shit isn't news anymore. clown world was like 3 years ago. just get used to degeneracy
Owen Parker
Just ensure that when your kids pay attention to you, they see two loving parents who love and respect eachother very much.
Charles Cox
And by loving parents, I guess I have to add, a mother and a father who love and respect eachother very much. In not clown world I could just say parents but I realized we live in hell.
Brandon Gray
Bluey is in fact wonderful and the only kids' show I tolerate our toddler watching. Plus the music is actually good, a lot of it is re-orchestrated classical pieces.
Jack Smith
with the amount of Muslim people in the UK I'm surprised pepper pig hasn't been cancelled
Carter Lewis
Agreed. My wife and I screen every kids show for our kids and we like Bluey a lot for a multitude of reasons, not least of which Bandit (the dad) is completely functional, holds down a job, and isn't the butt of jokes. Too many kids shows show the dad as an idiot and I would bet money that's contributed to our current situation in society. Also, the episode where Bingo (the little one) was in her planets dream and Chilli (the mom) was represented as the Sun and said >I'll always be here for you. Even if you can't see me, I'll always love you. That shit made me cry, and I actually called my mom and told her I loved her.
Joseph Cook
Peppa pig got briefly banned by China for promoting gangs or something
Oliver Turner
tell her its a test to learn how to identify stranger danger
Kevin Hernandez
>Peppa Pig show features lesbian couple Porking lesbians. A time-honored tradition.
Chase Ward
I was also blown away when Bluey had a Christmas and Easter episode named "Christmas" and "Easter" where the characters actually said >Merry Christmas And >Happy Easter Shocking. I guess Straya ain't so bad
