Some quotes from the article:
Erla Heinesen Højsted, a clinical psychologist who works with families and children, said she believed the show’s opponents may be overthinking things. “John Dillermand talks to children and shares their way of thinking – and kids do find genitals funny,” she said.
Generally little kids find bottoms and farts funny. I don’t think it’s true that children find genitals funny, and if they do it isn’t adult genitals they find amusing. Any child who advises they’re being exposed to adult genitals regularly would raise a red flag.
“The show depicts a man who is impulsive and not always in control, who makes mistakes – like kids do, but crucially, Dillermand always makes it right. He takes responsibility for his actions. When a woman in the show tells him that he should keep his penis in his pants, for instance, he listens. Which is nice. He is accountable.”
So kids aren’t even being taught that men should control their penises in the first place, only that if they “lose control” they’d better be sorry afterwards. I mean, seriously? How is an adult man making mistakes with his penis (I seriously can’t believe I have to type that about a kids cartoon) teaching kids to take responsibility for their mistakes too?
It’s just fucked up. Fucked up beyond belief. It’s teaching kids that adult penises are fun and interactive and if they misbehave and make mistakes it’s ok as long as the person with the penis is accountable. Which is just wrong on every single level of safeguarding from abuse.
As a society we’ve become so determined to be “sex positive” and not seen as prudes that we’ve decided to throw all safeguarding measures out the window at any opportunity.
This is grooming in plain sight.