Peppa Pig Celebrates Pride Month And The Bigots Are Big Mad

Pride Month is here and it's a time of celebration and solidarity. It's also a time when homophobic bigots let it all hang out and look like fools. Take for example their recent hyperventilating over Peppa Pig's official account sharing a Pride Month post.

As anyone who has watched the show should already know, Peppa is a queer-inclusive children's program that features Penny Polar Bear and her two mothers. Despite this, supposed fans of the show were triggered by the post, which simply featured characters standing together (including the gay polar bear moms) in front of a rainbow with the text ‘Pride Month’ on it.

It's a sweet, utterly inoffensive post, and yet the commitments section lit up with criticism for the show. According to many commenters, simply knowing of the existence of queer people is unacceptable. "Why do y’all want kids knowing about stuff like this? Let them be kids and let this page just be about kid things," wrote one commenter.

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"This is a kid's show!!! How unprofessional and lame to want to teach this on kids who don't even know who they are yet. How sad," added another.

Some just seemed very confused. "Oh peppa, let kids be kids. Inclusion is awesome but propaganda not so much. Unfollow."

Despite many vocal critics, supporters of the post and of the series proved to be the loudest (and proudest) and the shade was plentiful. "All the people mad at this post are the same ones dressing their sons in ‘Look out ladies’ onesies and asking my 12 WEEK old daughter if she has a boyfriend. Recognize your hypocrisy & either get on board or jump ship. You go Peppa. Happy Pride," wrote one commenter.

"It's so funny how republicans and Christian's love to indoctrinate their children into heteronormativity and can't stand to see a rainbow," noted another.

"or all the homophobes that have a problem with this post. No four year olds have Instagram accounts and this isn't gr**ming kids do you guys even know what gr**ming is? Also we show kids straight relationships all the time. How is this any different?"

While some commenters worried about the tenor of the comment section: "I’m horrified at this comment section, i’m so scared for the next generation of children."

Others were correctly giving the haters nothing but dust. "I don't think the official peppa has a problem with a

few of you homophobes unfollowing I’m gonna be honest."

Ultimately, it was gratitude that won the day. "Thank you for supporting people being able to be who they are and to be loved for who they are," said one commenter who reflected much of the sentiment in the posts comments.

Well said.