[Closed] Sexist kids' TV

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Op your Op is severely lacking in detail..

I've never seen Paw Patrol, and I don't think my kids watch it. What's sexist about it?

Cheetara from Thundercats.

Oh! Wait.....Sexist.

How's it sexist? Funk Jr doesn't have an interest in it, but genuinely curious. It's Hey Duggee (my favourite), Bing 😡 and anything with dinosaurs / animals here.

I watch Paw Patrol (because my daughter does) I am much more concerned that a clearly mentally challenged bulldog can operate a JCB and the town mayor has a chicken living in her handbag

Cheetara from Thundercats.

Oh! Wait.....Sexist.

Typo Perchy? Surely sexy is whar you meant snarf snarf 😉

Molgrips - I don't think calling out sexism is allowed anymore. To be offended by sexism on someone else's behalf you would have to be assuming the potential offendee's gender. That's a massive [i]faux pas[/i] these days.

Yeah but Skye is Welsh so we let it slide (and they dropped in a token second female Pup midway).

Skye is Scottish isn't she? Or Canadian if you're watching the original......

Paw patrol? Surely not

Hey Duggee is a work of stylistic genius. Like watching an animated lemonjelly album cover. Truly geometrically beautiful.

Seven puppies who form a sort of emergency service. One girl, who wears pink and all her stuff is pink. They are managed by a boy, and the boy puppies have all rufty tufty machines that transform into tough off road type vehicles, hers is a pink camper van. The girl human runs a beauty salon, and in the episode we just watched needs a puppy to make beautiful for the dog show.

FFS.

molgrips - Member

Seven puppies who form a sort of emergency service. One girl, who wears pink and all her stuff is pink. They are managed by a boy, and the boy puppies have all rufty tufty machines that transform into tough off road type vehicles, hers is a pink camper van. The girl human runs a beauty salon, and in the episode we just watched needs a puppy to make beautiful for the dog show.

FFS.

Absolutely disgusting. I'm so triggered right now. The only saving grace is that it comes from 2013 - a time when people believed in such outlandish myths as biological sex and gender. Luckily we now know that all biological sex is a social construction and despite overwhelming "scientific" propaganda from the patriarchy we know that men can be women and women can be men if we only brainwash them as such.

For balance I only let my children watch Sheezow on loop. A cartoon programe about a boy who's superhero alternate identity is a girl/his own cross dressing self. You should check it out and [s]force[/s] watch it with your children.

With luck and perseverance we can overcome this deeply offensive sexism and redress the gender balance to the point where equal numbers of women can die in dangerous first responder and construction jobs as their male counterparts.

They are managed by a boy, and the boy puppies have all rufty tufty machines that transform into tough off road type vehicles, hers is a pink camper van.

Now not to knock your paw patrol knowledge but Skye has a helicopter and her backpack turns into a rocket pack with wings. And there is now Everest and she has a snowmobile.

To be honest every character is equally incompetent so you can't call it out there either.

And yes I have been forced to sit through them with hoppy jr, urgh.

Peppa Pig.

Daddy pig is a fat useless incompentent ****er who never does anything right.

Miss Rabbit is a single Mum holding down several jobs without even a bead of sweat on her brow.

Yeah but did your kids enjoy watching it? No lying now or Chase will be on the case 🙂

Absolutely disgusting. I'm so triggered right now. The only saving grace is that it comes from 2013 - a time when people believed in such outlandish myths as biological sex and gender. Luckily we now know that all biological sex is a social construction and despite overwhelming "scientific" propaganda from the patriarchy we know that men can be women and women can be men if we only brainwash them as such.

For balance I only let my children watch Sheezow on loop. A cartoon programe about a boy who's superhero alternate identity is a girl/his own cross dressing self. You should check it out and force watch it with your children.

With luck and perseverance we can overcome this deeply offensive sexism and redress the gender balance to the point where equal numbers of women can die in dangerous first responder and construction jobs as their male counterparts.

I'm reading this and imagining Ewan Mcgregors "Renton" uttering those words

There is more than 1 Miss Rabbit.
Hence all the jobs.

HTH!

There is more than 1 Miss Rabbit.

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Skye is Scottish isn't she

Look, we Scots can stand on our own two feet. It's oor oil. Erm, GERs, erm, Nicola, erm, FREEDOM!!

Ours currently favours Peter Rabbit on Cbeebies.
The CGI animation looks like it's been done In Windows 95 by a stoned work experience team.

On the other hand Maddie on 'Do you know?' Woof!

There is more than 1 Miss Rabbit

No, there’s an episode where she had a day off.

There’s a Miss Rabbit and a Mummy Rabbit, look identical but it’s Miss Rabbit with eleventy jobs.

I don't understand why the puppies talk in paw patrol, makes them seem like puppy shaped children under the control of another slightly older child. very odd to me 😕

Peppa Pig is full of Little in-jokes for parents. See the interactions between Grandpa Pig and Freddy Fox’s Dad in regards to chickens.

Miss Rabbit was their go-to for any job - helicopter pilot, excavator driver, shop worker etc - someone must have said “Miss Rabbit has a lot of jobs!” So they made an episode about it - I believe she switches roles with Mrs Rabbit for a day.

With luck and perseverance we can overcome this deeply offensive sexism and redress the gender balance to the point where equal numbers of women can die in dangerous first responder and construction jobs as their male counterparts.

😀

puppies

At that time of morning? FFS thats it its banned in my house!

Octonauts FTW!

Octonauts FTW!

I find it weird that the polar bear and the penguin are roughly the same size.

And there's a pirate cat.

And a half-animal, half-turnip hybrid.

I find it weird that the polar bear and the penguin are roughly the same size.

And there's a pirate cat.

And a half-animal, half-turnip hybrid.

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Flappity flippers! What's wrong with that?

On the other hand Maddie on 'Do you know?' Woof!

Good call! But are we allowed to acknowledge an attractive female now? Doesn't that make us objectifying sexist pig dog supporters of The Patriarchy™ ?

And a half-animal, half-turnip hybrid.

Are they Swedish?

Gail McKenna, ex 90s jazz mag/P3 model not averse for getting her ladybits out on a regular basis, now CITV presenter on Brilliant Creatures.
Lovely....

In paw patrol the bulldogs teeth are independent of his jaw.

Once seen....

Ours currently favours Peter Rabbit on Cbeebies.
The CGI animation looks like it's been done In Windows 95 by a stoned work experience team.

Funk Jr loves it. I can't fathom why some of the animals wear clothes and have the ability to speak whereas others don't. The main cast just steal shit and traumatise Mr Magregar. That poor bastard is going to have a stroke or heart attack because a trio of anthropomorphic rabbits **** with him every day.

'Rabbits are brave.....'
No they're not!

*edit
We were watching ABBA videos on YouTube this morning (She has strict rules about music videos - they must be wearing dresses, must be dancing, no nightclub scenes 😆 ) and an advert came up for a Peter Rabbit movie. With. James. Cordon. As. Peter. Oh. Joy.

Peter Rabbit movie. With. James. Cordon. As. Peter. Oh. Joy.

I saw the trailer for that. It looks worse than you can possibly imagine.

Been watching "Annedroids" on Amazon.

Anne is a genius home-schooled inventor/scientist who lives in the junkyard with her dad and builds her own androids and AI.

Capers ensue. She's the hero. Smart and capable. She faces a baddie woman who is charge of a tech company and she seeks her altruist genius mum. Very female centric. Good messages about STEM etc.

The final episode even has one of the androids trying to choose what gender it should be, before settling on non-binary.

My girls loved it.

I imagine jimjam would have been spitting feathers. 😆

Peppa Pig was one of the few I could tolerate watching when my kids were younger.

molgrips - Member

Paw Patrol.

paw patrol is awesome, my daughter loves it.

Daughter? Gender tyrant.

Daughter? Gender tyrant.

middle son loves it too

Paw Patrol rocks. Babybgoode is a big fan (of Marshall in particular).

Went to see the live show as well. He thought it was brilliant. I thought it was short and expensive.

Paw patrol is dire. Cant stand it. Equally cant stand Rusty Rivets. "Lets combine it and design it" .... ahhh no. Design then combine!!! aarrgh!

little fisha loves Go Jetters. Whats not to like ... a disco unicorn who struts into the group singing "tonights the night .. uh huh ..."

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Back in my day we had Bod where a bald headed boy could wear a dress. Would fit right into todays trends.

Bod wore trousers and a shirt but he didn’t tuck it in.

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molgrips - Member
Seven puppies who form a sort of emergency service. One girl, who wears pink and all her stuff is pink. They are managed by a boy, and the boy puppies have all rufty tufty machines that transform into tough off road type vehicles, hers is a pink camper van. The girl human runs a beauty salon, and in the episode we just watched needs a puppy to make beautiful for the dog show.

FFS.

Absolutely disgusting. I'm so triggered right now. The only saving grace is that it comes from 2013 - a time when people believed in such outlandish myths as biological sex and gender. Luckily we now know that all biological sex is a social construction and despite overwhelming "scientific" propaganda from the patriarchy we know that men can be women and women can be men if we only brainwash them as such.

For balance I only let my children watch Sheezow on loop. A cartoon programe about a boy who's superhero alternate identity is a girl/his own cross dressing self. You should check it out and force watch it with your children.

With luck and perseverance we can overcome this deeply offensive sexism and redress the gender balance to the point where equal numbers of women can die in dangerous first responder and construction jobs as their male counterparts.

Just feel this showstopper of a post isn't getting the attention it deserves.

jimjam - spot on Sir.
(Yeah, damn right I just assumed your gender!)

To anyone who "likes" Peppa Pig, you might want to encourage the kids to watch Ben and Holly if they're not already. Lots of the same people involved, same nods to the adults.

Of course now mine are 6 and 8 so I get to have quality cuddle time with The Deep, which is actually quite good. 🙂

My lad only has a passing interest in Paw Patrol which pleases my wife as she hates it. Thomas and Chuggington are where it's at round here, oh and Peppa.

He's gone off Abney and Teal which is a shame as I think it's ace! Good job I can force my 10 month old daughter to watch it soon. She's currently all about the night garden and baby tv. Fast frank is on the way and all that.

My lad plays with tractors and trains in his blue room while my daughter is often found in pink. Have I done wrong?

Sophie also likes Bing. I like the episode where pando puts sand in bing's hole.

my son (5) says Bing is an idiot.

Dinotrux is where it's at (on Netflix) - lots of moral tales, themes of teamwork and good against evil interspersed with violent fighting. awesome.

Just to be clear, I am perfectly happy with biological genders. I'm not happy however with society pushing stereotypes onto my kids.

Paw patrol seems to do this.

Just to be clear, I am perfectly happy with biological genders. I'm not happy however with society pushing stereotypes onto my kids.

Paw patrol seems to do this.

That, and it's also just ****ing shite.

I am perfectly happy with biological genders

Nazi.

Nazi.

Just to be clear, I am perfectly happy with biological genders. I'm not happy however with society pushing stereotypes onto my kids.

Paw patrol seems to do this.

You do realise that most people don't pay attention to it. Wee girls like pink heck my boys liked pink too. Sophie plays with dolls just like my boys did too and she also likes to pick up the boys nerf guns and shoot you. It's only an issue when adults make it one.

What's most shocking about paw patrol is have you heard what male dogs call their women 😉 ? This needs to be addressed in an episode, maybe dealing with the misogyny in gangster rap as well...

Blaze and the Monster Machines is the best one, despite the unfortunate drug reference.

And Ben & Holly is way better than Peppa Pig, despite being basically the same show.

We were given the complete box set of Thomas the Tank Engine stories -

The Recurring themes of racism and "religious" obedience started to wear a bit thin after 1/3 of the way through-

- Work hard and do not question authority and you will be rewarded.

-[u]All[/u] trucks are intrinsically "Bad" and should be treated as an under class.

Also some of the engines are just dicks!

On the other hand Maddie on 'Do you know?

That was my first thought after misreading the topic title 😳

It's on now, just need to wake my daughter up so I've got an excuse to watch it 😆

You do realise that most people don't pay attention to it.

They don't pay attention to it, but it definitely has an effect. little girls start to identify with what they see around them. They see the boys as being the action based characters and the girls as the prettiness based ones. It's everywhere in society. My daugheter was made to feel wrong and weird by her peers for liking Star Wars FFS, because they'd picked up the idea that Star Wars is for boys. Despite it being quite feminist.

Kids aren't rational, ideas stick in their heads and stay there. Star Wars for boys probably came from someone's parent - not as a direct statement but some other action. Like maybe on the boy's birthday he gets star wars paper plates, but on his sister's she gets princess plates without being asked.

We've generally stopped directly telling kids how to act based on gender by 2017, but the subliminal stuff is still going strong in many places.

My youngest loves pink. She has chosen to identify with puppies and teddies and all that crap. However my eldest does not, and we've had to work hard to persuade her that she's not a freak because of it. Because growing up thinking you're a weirdo or an outsider is not necessarily that great.

The Recurring themes of racism and "religious" obedience started to wear a bit thin after 1/3 of the way through-

- Work hard and do not question authority and you will be rewarded.

-All trucks are intrinsically "Bad" and should be treated as an under class.

Also some of the engines are just dicks!

I hate it too. Thankfully Funk Jr has shown no interest. I remember an episode where they bury an engine alive, in a tunnel, just for wanting to do a different job. WTF kind of message is that sending.

Also plus one for Maddie from Do You Know. She is lovely 😳

The final episode even has one of the androids trying to choose what gender it should be, before settling on non-binary.

Spolier alert!

I misread the title as sexiest kids tv....

I remember an episode where they bury an engine alive, in a tunnel, just for wanting to do a different job

That’s in the first book in think, Henry. Didn’t want to work in the rain because he might spoil his paint and refused to come out of the tunnel. Fat controller ordered him to be bricked in for eternity

or until they needed him to do some work a couple of weeks later...

Sarah & Duck is still popular in our house. I'm more worried that our two still get scared by CBeebies at 6 and nearly 8!

My boss introduced me to Scottish Peppa Pig. If you haven't seen it Google Scottish Peppa pig pancakes......

Edit.... Not while the kids are watching.

Fat controller

Sizeist.

Paw patrol is utter goshawfulness.

Incompetent Thomas is possibly worse.

Eldest son currently likes Sofia the First. Ye gods. Try that for some stereotypes. And adverts. Lots of them. Endless adverts. Constantly. The Disney channels, I are not so very impressed.

OTOH he also still likes Blaze, Octonauts, Go (yay disco!) Jetters, Duggee, Ben Holly, Peppa & some other stuff that escapes me now, but youngest also happily watches.

We find ourselves mainly coming back to mostly CBeebies output.

We had a sudden, yet complete shift in TV at the weekend, Paw Patrol - gone, Puss in Boots - gone. Dora the ****ing Explorer completely and utterly IN, made much much worse by the fact we were both house bound with a cold.

I thought Netflix was broken at one, it's so repetitive.

Endless adverts. Constantly. The Disney channels, I are not so very impressed.

Yeah the Disney channels are appalling for adverts - very American-style, feels like more adverts than content sometimes.

My kids like Tiny Pop and Pop, which are also advert heavy but not nearly as bad. And have the advantage that they show My Little Pony which is awesome 😀

Amazon is always a good option to get away from adverts too.

There's some interesting ideas in this thread. I sometimes wonder why my boys stopped enjoying watching (and listening to the soundtrack of) Frozen. They used to love it. I can't see how Mrs Stilltortoise and I influenced them into not liking it (we quite enjoy it!), but at some stage they decided it was "not cool". I'd put money on that coming from their peers at school. Is that a boy/girl thing or is it simply that "Frozen is for kids".

Pretty much everything is recorded, but it still means a lot of remote jockeying.

Must look into Netflix when we get decent internet (so probably never for us, being in the sticks).

Is that a boy/girl thing or is it simply that "Frozen is for kids".

Dunno. Ours watch stuff constantly for a couple of months then the entire lot gets changed for a new lot. A while back it was scooby doo, scooby doo and more scooby doo, right now we haven't had an episode for months. Kids get bored of stuff, etc.

Must look into Netflix when we get decent internet (so probably never for us, being in the sticks)

Works fine with about 4Mbps min, sometimes it lags a bit at the start, better if you limit it to SD.

Course, thats a long as you don't have a 11 year old who'll spend 8 hours shouting at non-playing YT vid rather than admit it won't work and a FB addicted Wife. Then ideally you'll want a gigabyte uncontested lease line just so you can put a bit of Peppa on whilst you make lunch for everyone 🙄

Ours are into miraculous: ladybug and cat noir, which is a bit strange but not too stereotypical for the roles of boys & girls

Kids get bored of stuff

You could be right. Interestingly, our boys will sit quite captivated by The Adventures of Abney & Teal if it comes on, even if they don't actively go looking to watch it. There's something pleasantly calming about it.

I ffing love Abney and Teal. My kids have outgrown Cbeebies and watch Disney XD and Cartoon Network now, which are both pretty good.

I do miss Ben and Holly though too, especially at Christmas, the specials are great.

Ours are into miraculous: ladybug and cat noir, which is a bit strange but not too stereotypical for the roles of boys & girls

Yeah my girls like that too. It's kinda good in that it portrays a strong female lead superhero who is as useful and effective as her male counterpart. Though sadly when they are in civilian mode it's back to the typical [i]"Oh I like that boy but I'm too shy. Tee hee"[/i] bollocks.

"Totally Spies" is similar - girl hero spies saving the world, but lots of "Oh boys.. *swoon*" sub-plots. 🙄

All you parents out there, wait till they get a little older..... you will love Sanjay and Craig! Best cartoon ever.