So, basically Muppets possess every single human trait except the ability to love each other in a romantic way?
@madam-melon-meow but they’re from completely different shows and they’re just manipulated dolls???
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1.) Sesame Street characters are Muppets. Period. The show needed a good catch so Jim Henson created Muppets specifically for Sesame Street and was involved in the characterization of every single one. They may have been two different shows but they should still be compared to the Muppets because Jim Henson made both pretty interchangeable.
2.) It’s more than manipulated dolls. Like I’m not even being sentimental here. Sesame Street has been a cultural phenomenon. If you go to the City Museum of New York, you’ll see a video where Sesame Street actors (who were part of the Black Panther Party) talked about institutional racism in the 1970s. They had a character who’s father was incarcerated, a character who was HIV-positive, a character who breastfed, multiple characters with disabilities, etc. Top-rated colleges in the country are studying Sesame Street. They’ve been studying Sesame Street for decades because that’s the whole point of the show: it’s one gigantic experimental formula to see how children react to different environments being portrayed through fiction. That’s literally it’s entire purpose. That’s why I have no doubt that the writer who said Bert and Ernie are gay is going to get fired, not because they think that, but because every single second of that show and its media portrayal is planned out ahead of time and this was certainly a wrench in the formula. That’s why Sesame Street is backpedaling. If Bert and Ernie were meant to show LGBT representation then they need to release that in controlled experiments to monitor how kids react. Because that’s all the show is really about. Source: Me, a former Early Childhood Education Major who had to learn these things for half a decade.
But I’m not an Early Childhood Education Major anymore which means I can safely say:
3.) Smutty anime is just manipulated lines but that doesn’t stop you from filling your blog with pics now, does it?
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