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New CBeebies show has pissed me right off

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RednaxelasPony · 04/02/2019 22:15

Moon and Me.

One female character, who happens to be a tiny little dolly? Give me a break.

Upsy Daisy the token female was bad enough on Night Garden but this is a total joke!

It's 2019 for fuck's sake, can we not just have 50/50 male and female characters for our toddler's bedtime TV shows? Would it really be so hard for the writers to do that?

Feel like I want to actually complain to the BBC Angry

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HouseyMcHouseFace · 04/02/2019 22:33

I thought the Tomblyboo’s were all females? I did half watch Moon and Me tonight. I have to say I wasn’t paying an awful lot of attention but the doll was a girl, the moon boy was a boy but all the others appeared fairly androgynous. Although wasn’t it a little boy ticking them into the dolls house at the beginning? Also surely not a bad thing to show a boy with a dolls house.

I’ll have to rewatch as I wasn’t paying particularly close attention.

NothingOnTellyAgain · 04/02/2019 22:33

Pontipines and wattingers had women and girls

Don't think the sex of the likes of maccapacca, hoohas, tombliboos was ever revealed.

I get my coat 😁

RepealTheGRA · 04/02/2019 22:30

i complain to the BBC at least once a month

The BBC is such a shower of shite atm I think once a day would be acceptable!

Do it OP it’s not acceptable, we’re going backwards. Tweenies were 50/50 and the teletubbies were gender neutral!

Badgerthebodger · 04/02/2019 22:27

Definitely complain. I’m sick of it. Looking at you as well, Paw Patrol, with your measly single female dog out of 6 to choose from. Oh, and of course she’s pink as well Hmm

Thankfully it’s wall to wall Postman Pat here at the moment, which is absolute shite but at least it’s shite with girls and boys in relatively non-gendered clothing. It horrified me how quickly the world splits for little kids. You’re either pink and cute and giggly, or rough and tumble and in the significant majority. No good comes of that for either girls or boys.

Catquest1 · 04/02/2019 22:26

This came on today and my dc started half laughing saying the characters were too scary/freaky looking and made me turn it off.

Cant comment on the characters as we barely got past the opening credits.

BernardBlacksWineIcelolly · 04/02/2019 22:23

i complain to the BBC at least once a month like an actual loon . it's cathartic (and easy). do it!

RedemptiveCrocodile · 04/02/2019 22:22

Definitely do it.