Yes, I'm definitely thinking of Daddy Pig ruining the pancakes/pasta, knocking a wall down when he went to put up a picture, the football club barbecue fire where he had to be rescued yet again by Mummy Pig. Mostly, though, it's the children. Peppa doesn't like dinosaurs or sciency things, she likes princesses and arty things. They have the tree houses divided into boy and girl. The girls wanted dolls and the boys wanted, er, I can't remember what the boys wanted, but it was more varied.
Clever clogs has always come across in context as derogatory. He often gets the same eyeroll as Grampy Rabbit, another thing that I find upsetting. Like when Doctor Brown Bear asks does he have to fix Grampy Rabbit's voice, I get really sad because it's so mean and rude.
The agism is related to the parenting, I think. There's a definite us+them feel I'm picking up, but it could just be me - I'll bow to your superior experience on this one.
Again, the parenting thing is a thing that Colin and I were talking about last time the kids were watching, so it could well have been that we just saw a particularly egregious episode, but I don't remember which one it was. There was a thing that could have been avoided where everyone got upset because the children weren't listened to. I try not to say 'bad parenting' when I mean 'different parenting' - every family is differnet and different things work for different people. But I often get the feeling that the Pig parents don't really recognise the Pig children as fully formed individuals with valid ideas and experiences of their own. And that bothers me. But again, I can't point to the specific episode because I've been having a rubbish day on very little sleep and I don't have the energy for citations, so my argument is pretty ropy.
And that's the thing. When they've been watching Peppa Pig, my children get meaner. They get more inclined to say 'No boys allowed' or 'I can't do that, that's for girls'. So I try to encourage alternatives.
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Date: 2015-12-08 04:30 pm (UTC)Clever clogs has always come across in context as derogatory. He often gets the same eyeroll as Grampy Rabbit, another thing that I find upsetting. Like when Doctor Brown Bear asks does he have to fix Grampy Rabbit's voice, I get really sad because it's so mean and rude.
The agism is related to the parenting, I think. There's a definite us+them feel I'm picking up, but it could just be me - I'll bow to your superior experience on this one.
Again, the parenting thing is a thing that Colin and I were talking about last time the kids were watching, so it could well have been that we just saw a particularly egregious episode, but I don't remember which one it was. There was a thing that could have been avoided where everyone got upset because the children weren't listened to.
I try not to say 'bad parenting' when I mean 'different parenting' - every family is differnet and different things work for different people. But I often get the feeling that the Pig parents don't really recognise the Pig children as fully formed individuals with valid ideas and experiences of their own. And that bothers me. But again, I can't point to the specific episode because I've been having a rubbish day on very little sleep and I don't have the energy for citations, so my argument is pretty ropy.
And that's the thing. When they've been watching Peppa Pig, my children get meaner. They get more inclined to say 'No boys allowed' or 'I can't do that, that's for girls'. So I try to encourage alternatives.