The creators of Peppa Pig have launched a brand new household that’ll have many leaping with pleasure in muddy puddles.
The newest episode of the favored youngsters’s collection introduces Penny Polar Bear and her two mummies — marking the present’s first ever same-sex couple
“One mummy is a health care provider and one mummy cooks spaghetti,” Penny explains to Peppa in a single scene (through The Mirror).
The addition of Penny Polar Pear and her two mummies comes on the heels of a fan petition calling on the present so as to add same-sex mother and father. Although Peppa has emerged as a icon within the LGBTQ neighborhood, some followers have been bothered by the shortage of homosexual illustration over the present’s 18 season, 250 episode run.
“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 mother and father of various sexes are regular,” the petition learn. “Because of this youngsters of same-sex mother and father could really feel alienated by Peppa Pig, and that different youngsters could also be extra more likely to bully them, merely via ignorance.” Up to now, practically 25,000 folks have signed on the petition.
Final 12 months, Sesame Avenue made its personal historical past by introducing a same-sex married human couple named Frank and Dave — marking the present’s first-ever homosexual characters to look on display screen throughout its 51-year run.
