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(LA Times)   "Sesame Street" is brought to you by the letters G-A-Y   (latimes.com) divider line 161
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2010-10-23 06:20:26 PM
"This is your doing, Ernie."
is2.okcupid.com
 
2010-10-23 06:38:02 PM
REPEAT

http://www.theonion.com/articles/letter-d-pulls-sponsorship-from-sesame-street, 8 46/
 
2010-10-23 06:41:51 PM
i105.photobucket.com.
 
2010-10-23 07:08:21 PM
I hear they sometimes have, you know, black people on the show, too ;)
 
2010-10-23 08:53:39 PM
So mo is now a synonym for gay.

I can't keep up with this shiat.
 
2010-10-23 09:30:25 PM
feckingmorons: So mo is now a synonym for gay.

I can't keep up with this shiat.


You can make "ass me" out of "Sesame Street" too. Clearly a reference to homosexuality.
 
2010-10-23 09:38:09 PM

Reading "mo" as slang for homosexual, gay bloggers rejoiced.


I believe in gay rights, but I wouldn't mind seeing these bloggers arrested and brought up on charges of being criminally retarded.

I'm not sure if that would be a misdemeanor or a felony, but either way they should locked in a prison and forced to read a damn book every day until they are smarter.
 
2010-10-23 09:43:54 PM
Well, for being located in a "gay-friendly" neighborhood Archie's place could sure use a queer eye or two.
 
2010-10-23 09:46:45 PM
That's so mo.
 
2010-10-23 10:55:06 PM
Why are gay rights bloggers reading Sesame Street's twitter feed? I'm not trying to make any insinuations, I'm just honestly curious. Actually, why does Bert HAVE a twitter feed? Do the four year olds watching the show and learning to read get A-Team jokes, or do their parents have to explain it to them?
 
2010-10-23 10:58:39 PM
Bert and Ernie are not gay. In their 31 years on "Sesame Street," they've never marched in a Pride parade or plastered a rainbow sticker on Oscar the Grouch's trash can. Sesame Workshop has always contended that they're just friends who happen to live together and sleep side by side in well-tailored pajamas.

Uh 1. Yes they are, they always have been. 2. What kind of ignorant prick thinks marching in a parade or applying rainbow stickers, is a requirement for homosexuality?

Oh I know, the type who think there is a homosexual conspiracy, trying to convert them and their children, to sweet sweet man love.

/not gay myself, just hate ignorant fools.
//NTTAWWT, they just shouldn't be writing news articles.
 
2010-10-23 11:00:05 PM
feckingmorons: So mo is now a synonym for gay.

i105.photobucket.com.
 
2010-10-23 11:15:21 PM
Cool story mo
 
2010-10-23 11:16:50 PM
Ashtrey: Why are gay rights bloggers reading Sesame Street's twitter feed? I'm not trying to make any insinuations, I'm just honestly curious. Actually, why does Bert HAVE a twitter feed? Do the four year olds watching the show and learning to read get A-Team jokes, or do their parents have to explain it to them?

It's really more for people our age who fondly remember watching the show as children, and for parents who end up watching it with their kids. Grover and Cookie Monster have some pretty funny tweets.
 
2010-10-23 11:18:20 PM
spyderqueen: It's really more for people our age who fondly remember watching the show as children, and for parents who end up watching it with their kids. Grover and Cookie Monster have some pretty funny tweets.

Ok, I figured children probably ask enough questions without having to bring them up on wrongful convictions, mercenaries, and how to build tanks.
 
2010-10-23 11:19:09 PM
t0.gstatic.com
 
2010-10-23 11:19:50 PM
PBS = Puss Slurping Butchwomen. Yep, that confirms it.
 
2010-10-23 11:20:01 PM
Really? This is news now? I knew print media was dieing, but I never knew it was this bad.
 
2010-10-23 11:20:26 PM
Homophobes need better things to do than look for gayness everwhere.
 
2010-10-23 11:22:18 PM
Obviously, I skipped all the alphabet and grammar sections on Sesame Street and the Electric Company. Idiot.
 
2010-10-23 11:22:22 PM
SpinStopper: I hear they sometimes have, you know, black people on the show, too ;)

But how would they know they were black?
 
2010-10-23 11:23:59 PM
skinink: PBS = Puss Slurping Butchwomen. Yep, that confirms it.

You wanna try that again?
 
2010-10-23 11:24:05 PM
skinink: PBS = Puss Slurping Butchwomen. Yep, that confirms it.

PSB

Sounds like they need MORE funding.
 
2010-10-23 11:25:45 PM
skinink: Obviously, I skipped all the alphabet and grammar sections on Sesame Street and the Electric Company. Idiot.

ID!

EE!

UT!

IDIOT!

/I keed. ;)
 
2010-10-23 11:26:40 PM
If you're old enough to know what being homo/heterosexual really means you need to stop watching sesame street. If you haven't mastered your ABC's or your numbers by then you're never going to.
 
2010-10-23 11:28:16 PM

When I was a kid I watched Laurel and Hardy sleep in the same bed on several occassions. It never caused me to think that they were gay.

i488.photobucket.com
A day without gay rights is like a day without Anita Bryant.
 
2010-10-23 11:28:52 PM
Impasse: Cool story mo

Nice.
 
2010-10-23 11:30:57 PM
Why would sexuality of any type be brought up on a show for toddlers?
 
MBK [TotalFark]
2010-10-23 11:32:04 PM
Ashtrey: spyderqueen: It's really more for people our age who fondly remember watching the show as children, and for parents who end up watching it with their kids. Grover and Cookie Monster have some pretty funny tweets.

Ok, I figured children probably ask enough questions without having to bring them up on wrongful convictions, mercenaries, and how to build tanks.


My 2nd and 3rd graders asked me the other day how to build a catapult.

Apparently, they got the idea from a game called Crush the Castle 2.

Naturally, being the cool guy that I am, I gave them a few blueprints, instructions on how to get the best labor for the cheapest price, and good things to launch at their enemies (Diseased horses = good. Pineapples = bad).
 
2010-10-23 11:33:31 PM
BackAssward: 1. Yes they are, they always have been.

[[citation needed]]
 
2010-10-23 11:33:34 PM
doglover: Reading "mo" as slang for homosexual, gay bloggers rejoiced.

I believe in gay rights, but I wouldn't mind seeing these bloggers arrested and brought up on charges of being criminally retarded.

I'm not sure if that would be a misdemeanor or a felony, but either way they should locked in a prison and forced to read a damn book every day until they are smarter.


I can get behind this.

But not 'behind' behind.
 
2010-10-23 11:34:09 PM
When they pulled the Katy Perry bit, I joked to my wife they were trying to keep little boys from learning about boobs and being straight.

I really was just joking...
 
2010-10-23 11:34:50 PM
Every time the bed starts tappin',
Something special's gonna happen....
 
2010-10-23 11:35:17 PM
MBK:
My 2nd and 3rd graders asked me the other day how to build a catapult.

Apparently, they got the idea from a game called Crush the Castle 2.


I farking HATE that game. My five year old is some kind of savant at it. I can't hit a damn thing.
 
2010-10-23 11:36:40 PM
doglover: I believe in gay rights,

I believe in human rights.
 
2010-10-23 11:37:34 PM
Two men living together = gay now?

www.posters.ws

I did not realize Neil Simon was trying to subvert culture with gay propaganda beginning in the 70's.
 
2010-10-23 11:37:42 PM
Mainrodax: Why would sexuality of any type be brought up on a show for toddlers?

Toddlers are not oblivious to the concept of gender, romance, sex, etc. Arguably the simple act of portraying characters as part of a family implies someone was farking.
 
2010-10-23 11:39:55 PM
The central theme of the show has always included tolerance and community. I don't think it sets out directly to examine LGBT matters, but it doesn't seek to vilify members of those groups, either.
 
2010-10-23 11:39:57 PM
MBK: My 2nd and 3rd graders asked me the other day how to build a catapult.

Apparently, they got the idea from a game called Crush the Castle 2.

Naturally, being the cool guy that I am, I gave them a few blueprints, instructions on how to get the best labor for the cheapest price, and good things to launch at their enemies (Diseased horses = good. Pineapples = bad).


Well yeah, 7 or 8 is a good age for Intro to Siege Warfare. But 4 or 5 (is that the target age for Sesame Street?) probably shouldn't be going too deep into the Geneva conventions.
 
2010-10-23 11:40:19 PM
mo hawk or mo cawk?
 
2010-10-23 11:41:28 PM
UsikFark: Toddlers are not oblivious to the concept of gender, romance, sex, etc. Arguably the simple act of portraying characters as part of a family implies someone was farking.

I'm completely for equal rights for gays. But sesame street probably should not try to champion complex social issues and stick to numbers and the alphabet. Unless kids should really be taught the dynamics of two daddies by Animal and Big Bird.

/This post brought to you by the letter D
//Leave homosexuality to the teletubbies
 
2010-10-23 11:41:46 PM
Mainrodax 2010-10-23 11:30:57 PM
Why would sexuality of any type be brought up on a show for toddlers?


Exactly. They're puppets for chrissakes! Apart from the whole Miss Piggy after Kermit thing, which I think is more a Muppet show thing and maybe is never mentioned on Sesame Street, there is no sexuality implied in any of the puppet characters.

Whether Fundies think they see the Teh Ghey in Teletubbies or gay rights advocates see gay agenda in Sesame Street, it's both nonsense.
 
2010-10-23 11:42:27 PM
Bacon Bits: Two men living together = gay now?



I did not realize Neil Simon was trying to subvert culture with gay propaganda beginning in the 70's.


"It's not spaghetti, it's linguine."

"Now it's sodomy!"
 
2010-10-23 11:44:38 PM
Sesame Street has always preached tolerance. We're just hypersensitive to "culture war" touchstones now so shiat like this gets brought up.

/This country would be a better place if 1 hour a month of Sesame Street was mandated viewing for all adults.
 
2010-10-23 11:45:02 PM
SirEattonHogg: Mainrodax 2010-10-23 11:30:57 PM
Why would sexuality of any type be brought up on a show for toddlers?

Exactly. They're puppets for chrissakes! Apart from the whole Miss Piggy after Kermit thing, which I think is more a Muppet show thing and maybe is never mentioned on Sesame Street, there is no sexuality implied in any of the puppet characters.

Whether Fundies think they see the Teh Ghey in Teletubbies or gay rights advocates see gay agenda in Sesame Street, it's both nonsense.


Never mind a Freudian analysis of Thomas the Tank Engine - all those trains going into tunnels. The Fat Controller implying some dominant/submissive relationship.
 
2010-10-23 11:46:47 PM
schattenteufel: Homophobes need better things to do than look for gayness everwhere.

That's the point. They generally don't HAVE anything better to do, because they're all so crazy/ugly/unfarkable/stupid/mean they can't find other things to do with their time that is positive. Like participating in a positive group activity, making something, playing a sport, getting a hobby, getting laid, blah blah blah, it goes on.

There's a lot of 'normal' folks out there who think two men kissing is kinda icky and weird and don't want to look at it, but I've never met a truly rabid homophobe that didn't have an unusually farked up life. If they're not repressing the gay, it's because they have to have some kind of people to look down on to make their own life seem less pathetic. I guess that part really works for bigots of all stripes, though.
 
2010-10-23 11:47:50 PM
Snapper Carr: Sesame Street has always preached tolerance. We're just hypersensitive to "culture war" touchstones now so shiat like this gets brought up.

/This country would be a better place if 1 hour a month of Sesame Street was mandated viewing for all adults.


Just wait until they start teaching religious tolerance.
 
2010-10-23 11:48:15 PM
schattenteufel: Homophobes need better things to do than look for gayness everwhere.

Actually, it's the homos themselves looking for it this time.

This is some pretty retarded shiat right here.

www.eastcoast4x4s.com
 
2010-10-23 11:49:06 PM
Ask these guys, they should know.

www.ukstudentlife.com
 
2010-10-23 11:49:06 PM
ftfa: inviting openly gay guests

how is this advancing the gay agenda? is it advancing the straight agenda to have openly straight people on the show?

banning a whole segment of the population from the show by default isnt the farking 'neutral' stance.
 
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