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| 'Arthur' character comes out, FINALLY giving LGBT cartoon rat population representation on kid's TV |
| 2019-05-15 |
| [RT] A publicly-funded educational show for children 4-8 about an anthropomorphic aardvark took a turn for the even weirder, when it decided to teach kids the importance of accepting adult male-male inter-species love relationships. Come on, if there was one thing kids’ TV programming was desperately crying out for, it was a gay cartoon rat getting married, teaching us all a timely lesson about “diversity.” So, that’s exactly what the season premiere of the Public Broadcasting Service's (PBS) “Arthur” cartoon delivered. The episode featured a surprise wedding between the titular aardvark’s humanoid rat teacher and his male partner who appears to also be an aardvark...as CNN put it, “leaving us all in happy tears.” |
| Posted by:Skidmark |
| #7 It's about time, until now the gay cartoon rat and aardvark population has had nobody on tv like them as a role model. Somebody misses the Obama years. |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2019-05-15 16:49 |
| #6 It's about time, until now the gay cartoon rat and aardvark population has had nobody on tv like them as a role model. |
| Posted by: rschwarz 2019-05-15 11:30 |
| #5 Oh, ala Bosom Buddies? |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2019-05-15 11:02 |
| #4 Pikers. The Loud House has had a mixed race gay dads with adopted child for years. Lest we forget, what My Two Dads was really about. |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2019-05-15 10:58 |
| #3 I heard they're rebooting 'All in the Family'. |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2019-05-15 10:36 |
| #2 In the future, will there be cartoons that make the world safe for heterosexual, Christian white guy family men? |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2019-05-15 09:44 |
| #1 But not having a TV / buying cable TV is child abuse... |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2019-05-15 08:01 |