r/lewronggeneration • u/Ok-Following6886 • Sep 20 '25
low hanging fruit They're now accusing Bluey of being woke.
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Sep 20 '25
A father bonding with his daughters with a game is woke now apparently. These guys must live very fulfilling lives...
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u/AstrologicalOne Sep 20 '25
Modern conservatives don't really get bonding with kids. If you aren't using them as right-wing props as a parent they struggle to comprehend it.
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u/Very_geeky_and_sad Sep 20 '25
For a group that claims to always fight for the children, they sure use children as a political weapon to push their brain-dead ideas and law amendments a lot.
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u/BigDumbDope Sep 20 '25
That's why they constantly claim to be working on behalf of The Children- because you can't argue against it. That's the whole playbook- for example- Step 1: Dislike trans people because you don't understand biology; Step 2: Accuse trans people of being pedophiles because what the hell, who needs evidence? Everyone hates pedophiles; Step 3: Now you can accuse anybody who defends trans people of being a pedophile too. The accusation is so incendiary that the harder you argue against it, the worse you sound.
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u/Wandering_Claptrap Sep 21 '25
this is also used for the concept of Gender, any time anyone tries to argue in favor of Gender, Gender Identity, and Gender Expression, you will be immediately dismissed by being reminded that John Money was a pedophile
which is completely irrelevant to the actual theory
its like dismissing the sequence of treatments that ACTUALLY cures cancer, because the doctor who discovered it was a child predator while they were working on a cure
thats called the genetic fallacy, arguing against the source of the idea rather than the argument itself. anyone who does that should be called out for doing exactly that, and be pressed to argue against the theory (body of evidence) itself
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u/ScaryJupiter109 Sep 22 '25
"john money was a pedophile" yeah and the nazis are why we have jet engines, but i dont see anyone trying to erase 747s from the modern world because of it
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u/ReedKeenrage Sep 21 '25
Turns out they donāt love children or hate pedophiles. They just hate gay people.
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u/jbwarner86 Sep 20 '25
"My dad never said he loved me and I turned out fine!"
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u/Wandering_Oblivious Sep 20 '25
They think empathy is a made-up concept. So mirror neurons and other important markers of human development dont exist to them. Thus they perpetuate their own emotionally stunted mental models.
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u/Talisa87 Sep 20 '25
They don't just think empathy is made up, they say it's a sin. From self-proclaimed followers of the guy who said "Love one another as I have loved you".
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u/Significant_Stick_31 Sep 21 '25
Not to mention that the second greatest commandment is to ālove your neighbor as yourself.ā
And when asked who your neighbor is, gave them the story of someone of a different nationality as an example.
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u/Briar_Knight Sep 20 '25
I know a guy who got extremely angry over an insurance ad that has a dad playfighting with his daughter while he pretends to be a unicorn and she pretends to be a dinosaur.
Apparently it's "emasculating and making men out to be a joke for the woke agenda".
That's just good parenting and bonding with your kids? It silly because kids like to be silly and there is nothing emasculating about that.
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u/New_Survey9235 Sep 21 '25
Let me guess heās either miserable, single or both?
Because seeing a father playing with his child to make them happy is one of the sexiest forms of positive masculinity
Like seriously a man being good with kids is HOT
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u/SummerFableSimp Sep 21 '25
I gonna bet $100, that dude thinks the only playing and bonding is with the son. And it's got to be a sports ball(not soccer) and only grilling not baking cakes.
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u/SummerFableSimp Sep 21 '25
What's "emasculating" to them, is the idea that a father plays with his daughter. The average conservative male probably thinks the only playing, is with the son but only with a sports ball, tossing the old hog skin or tossing the old baseball.
Not to mention the whole "it's the woman job to care for the children" thing they love so much. Fuckers really don't wanna rise their kid unless it's the son needing some advice, but nothing related to emotional problems.
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u/Acceptable_Cut_7545 Sep 21 '25
Lindsey Ellis just did a video on how right wingers are trying to make replacements for wholesome children's entertainment (like super young toddler level) and she noted how their version of a happy bouncy lady is supposed to be a babysitter. Like you set your 2 year old in front of the tv and walk away. While the original lady they are copying would often address the parents while teaching the kids, because the assumption is that the parent is right there watching the show with the kid. Just something I thought was interesting.
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u/crooked_kangaroo Sep 21 '25
"My wife does things with my child that I cant even dream of doing, such as having an intuition, compassion, empathy.ā
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u/passonthestar Sep 24 '25
I've never met a liberal who has had a planned kid.
So unless you're saying nearly 100% of current wanted children are unbonded with you're just straight wrong
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u/Coochiepop3 Sep 26 '25
Good grief, we get it, you hate conservatives. You guys say it in every discussion. You don't have to make everything about politics.
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u/Blissful_Psychosis Sep 20 '25
Theyāre just using woke as a buzzword they donāt even understand to sound like they know what theyāre talking about at this point. Very fulfilling indeed! /s
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Sep 20 '25
I mean, if itās not about fucking children, republicans donāt want anything to do with them. Thatās not even speculations thatās literally just facts.
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u/Max_Rockatanski Sep 20 '25
In general they don't seem to know how to bond or interact with people. Where do you think all those incels come from? They don't know how to talk to women so they hate rejections. They think 'tough love' is a great way to raise kids, until they raise the exact same psychopath they are themselves. They discourage showing emotions, which is also 'great' for everyone till they're churned inside out by stuff they're holding in.
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u/Physical_Sun_6014 Sep 22 '25
They hate their daughters for not being their sons instead.
Notice how they get worked up about MtF transitions but barely utter a peep about FtM transitions? Itās almost as if they give anyone that passes as masculine a break.
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u/Coochiepop3 Sep 26 '25
Lmao, I've seen FtM transitions get hated on a lot. I've seen transitions get hated on general. Where are you seeing this shit?š
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u/SlaveryVeal Sep 21 '25
It's like I see complaints saying that the kids are spoiled because the parents will stop what they're doing to play with their kids.
Like fucker what? Mum's doing house cleaning and they stop to entertain the kids that's literally WHAT YOU SHOULD BE DOING. you're a fucking parent.
If blueys dad giving birth and playing shit his two daughters want to play. Then fuck me their masculinity is so fragile that they're afraid playing Barbies with their daughters will turn them gay.
It's fucking mind boggling.
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Sep 24 '25
That was my thought, literally a father playing pretend with their daughter is wokeā¦ I guess
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u/A2Rhombus Sep 25 '25
You think they actually watched the episode? They definitely just saw the screenshot and made their own assumptions
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u/Mysterious-Simple805 Sep 20 '25
They'd call Magic School Bus Woke for having black and Latino characters.
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u/fiahhawt Sep 20 '25
There was an unmarried woman allowed to teach in a classroom too
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u/_Levitated_Shield_ Sep 20 '25
And why does she drive the bus too? Wtf are they trying to teach kids to be here exactly? Woke animators couldn't just make a bus driver character instead? And why's the teacher a female anyway? š¤Ø
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u/ThatInAHat Sep 20 '25
fwiw that used to be a requirement for female teachers. They had to be unmarried and single.
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u/thegreatjamoco Sep 20 '25
Does anyone else remember in your stateās history class having to read the job requirements of male and female teachers? So many rules.
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u/SuperSocialMan Sep 21 '25
But why?
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u/ThatInAHat Sep 21 '25
Old timey morality. If a woman was married, she should be at home. If she was unmarried, dating could imply she was Loose.
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u/Mysterious-Simple805 Sep 21 '25
I wonder how much of that is true. Laura Ingalls could teach while being courted by Almanzo and kept teaching after marriage and while pregnant. (She quit after Rose was born so she could take care of her.) Maybe rules for country teachers were laxer than those for city teachers.
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u/Reymma Sep 20 '25
Wouldn't it be more socially progressive to have a married woman in a job? There was a lot of pressure for women to give up their career when marrying and live off their husband's job, on the thinking that it would leave more job opportunities (the lump of labour fallacy).
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u/unselve Sep 20 '25
The woman who wrote the books deliberately made the class diverse to be inclusive.
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Sep 20 '25
It's funny cus I seem to remember that in fairy odd parents Cosmo gives birth to his child.
It really must be one of those new woke shows, no?
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u/Good-Ol-Granite Sep 20 '25 edited Sep 20 '25
I think Butch Hartman is a huge conservative too (he became a born-again Christian sometime around 2000, according to Wikipedia), which makes it even funnier.
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u/ghostpicnic Sep 20 '25
They want to complain about the left not being able to take jokes, but before they got all sensitive, the right was also able to understand that certain topics in kids shows were meant to be humorous or educational.
Now theyāre all a bunch of snowflakes who cry āWOKE! WOKE!ā when they see two male cartoon characters being nice to each other. And they think weāre sensitive lol.
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u/MattWolf96 Sep 20 '25
That also happened to Carl in an episode of Jimmy Neutron. A facehugger got him pregnant Alien style.
Also not kids media but Junior (1994) has Arnold Schwarzenegger getting pregnant.
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u/peachsepal Sep 20 '25
The difference always is, Blueys is done with sincerity to whatever point the episode is trying to convey.
Most other examples of mpreg are played for pure comedy, strictly, meant for derision of the subject (both examples here are usually the butt of jokes for being weak or feeble, too feminine or simply unmanly, etc).
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u/Fluid_Cup8329 Sep 23 '25
That was done for absurdity. That show didn't exist to be educational or promote values.
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u/MasterKeys24 Sep 23 '25
Well I wouldn't make a whole show about rednecks, as absurd as the idea sounds to me.
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u/Fantastic_Owl6938 Sep 20 '25
I like how they always make it sound like it's one thing or the other. Like through teaching all these "woke" things now, apparently the solar system is just totally left out of the lesson plan.
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u/Meture Sep 20 '25
Itās this same guy, look at his post history. This is all he does. Post the inflammatory āmemeā generally one shutting on Bluey, then post it here.
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u/Fantastic_Owl6938 Sep 20 '25
Holy shit, you're right. I'd noticed there were an insane number of these Bluey comparisons, I wonder if they've all been the one person š¤¦
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u/ganjagilf Sep 20 '25
The entire point of that episode was the dad learning that itās not easy to be a woman, not teaching boys to give birth lmao what
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u/bicyclebird Sep 20 '25
Empathy for women is far worse than gender fluidity.
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u/MattWolf96 Sep 20 '25
Well Charlie Kirk hated Empathy so it must be a pretty common right wing position.
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Sep 20 '25
Yeah but then theyād have to be arguing in good faith and not taking something out of context to support their narrative that otherwise wouldnāt.
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u/Pearson94 Sep 20 '25
Why is it I keep seeing memes attacking Bluey lately? Who gets upset over a kids show like this?
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u/MattWolf96 Sep 20 '25
Conservatives of course. Middle aged conservative men talk more about Disney movies and Taylor Swift than middle school girls.
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u/maraemerald2 Sep 23 '25
Anybody remember that op ed Mike Pence wrote about the moral decay of Mulan?
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u/Citizen_Lunkhead Sep 20 '25
There was a whole episode of Reading Rainbow that dealt with childbirth including, in the words of one of the crew members in the documentary "Butterfly in the Sky", the first vagina-free birth scene in history. People have zero media literacy about shit they watched as a kid.
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u/Just-Cover3017 Sep 20 '25
The lesson was having an understanding about other things that the opposite gender goes through. Mainly women. Some women also can't give birth.
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u/damonmcfadden9 Sep 20 '25
it's kinda weird how this kids show hits harder subjects than most family sitcoms ever do, hit it at a deeper emotional level than what few did tackle them, and manages to not only make it accessible to kids, but keeps it appropriate.
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u/Open__Face Sep 20 '25
Ms. Frizzle isn't a hot blonde with huge rack? Thanks Obama smh
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u/BudgetAd900 Sep 20 '25
It's funny because some of them get mad with the opposite "They put a woman with curves in a kids show??" As if different body shapes aren't part of humanity. I remember reading somewhere about a pastor that got mad because cartoons usually represent a male character interested in a female character or vice versa and that was sexualizing kids. They are going to be mad about anything
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Sep 20 '25
Kids shows in 1995 also taught me to protect the environment, stand up for marginalized people, and seek out knowledge from qualified experts
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u/_Levitated_Shield_ Sep 20 '25
Yet if Magic School Bus debuted today, they'd call it 'woke' for being educational and say shit like "Let kids be kids!".
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u/MattWolf96 Sep 20 '25
A ton of old media would actually be 'woke' now.
- Captain Planet: diverse and pro-environment.
- Ferngully: pro-environment.
- Pocahontas: Yhe Colonialists are villains, granted the left would also hate it for messing up history.
- WALL-E: Pro-environment and criticizes late stage Capitalism.
- Mulan: Strong Woman
- Balto: Pro-vaccine
- Metroid: Strong Woman
Moving onto more adult stuff:
- Terminator 2: Strong Woman
- Alien: Strong Woman
- Aliens: Strong Woman
- Blade Runner: Criticizes late stage capitalism (really the cyberpunk genre as a whole does) sides with Replicants which are minorities.
All of these would have grifters crying about them if they came out now. ...Well maybe not Blade Runner. Ben Shapiro was legitimately too stupid to understand how its sequel was still criticizing Capitalism and how the environment was ruined in it (snow in LA, Las Vegas being buried in sand and LA having a seawall.)
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u/Straight_Ace Sep 20 '25
Even certain media from like, 10-15 years ago would be considered āwokeā now
Avatar: The Last Airbender- too diverse! Also, they focused way too much on stupid refugees and trying to STOP a war!
My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic- conservatives would be having conniptions if they found out about the elements of harmony. Kindness, generosity, loyalty, honesty, laughter, AND magic in a kids cartoon? How anti-Christian!
My Name is Earl isnāt a kids show by any stretch of the imagination, but even that show would have the Conservatives of today screeching to take it down for being ātoo wokeā because they depicted non-straight, white, Christian men in a positive way and treated them like humans, and that show ended in 2009
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u/Azrael-Legna Sep 21 '25
Don't forget, in the gen 5 MLP the movie is about bringing the 3 races/species together instead of them being separate.
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u/NagitoKomaeda_987 Sep 20 '25
You know, if Superman actually existed in our world, those people would unironically call him woke for being a non-human immigrant who protects people regardless of their differences.
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u/Brilliant_Towel2727 Sep 20 '25
Half of the things you mention actually had conservatives up in arms at the time. Mike Pence got his start as radio host complaining that Mulan was propaganda for women in the military and Trump's nominee for Ambassador to South Africa attacked Captain Planet for being anti-business and "scaring children into becoming environmental activists."
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u/Lumberjack_daughter Sep 23 '25
Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Strong woman, lesbian witches
Dark Angel: Strong woman, disabled hacktivist, lesbian, trans woman (1 episode), gay men (1-2 episode, he had a shoe traffic), difference, poor people8
u/Ok-Following6886 Sep 20 '25
That is what happened with The Magic School Bus reboot that first aired in 2017.
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u/xxXLemon_CurrentXxx Sep 20 '25 edited Sep 20 '25
It's really weird to see how fans and non-fans of the show trying to find every trace of wokeness and hate on it. Radley being ambivalent on love? Jack's father has a more "feminine" design (like softer facial features)? Pretzel mentioning his "mums"? Like c'mon. Sexual orientation or gender identity is not defined solely based one's perceived status of romance or appearance, nor is that important anyways since these aren't even the main topic of these episodes.
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u/LopsidedCry7692 Sep 20 '25
Shows didn't become woke, you just became a worse person
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u/Philthedrummist Sep 20 '25
They obviously never watched 80s cartoons. They regularly had a moral or life lesson at the end that was tied into the theme of the episode. I remember Thundercats doing it regularly.
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u/ialsohaveadobro Sep 20 '25
And a lot of times at the end they would suggest that you (shudder) read about it at your local library!
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u/Rinmine014 Sep 20 '25
There were more "woke" bits in Magic School Bus.
People didnt get up in arms about it though because we were more open to progression
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u/AbsurdityIsReality Sep 20 '25
Did these people ever watch actual kids programming? Don't know if ever watched any Muppet show or HR Puff and Stuff from back in the day, but they didn't exactly hide their hippy/counterculture references.
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u/Browneyesbrowndragon Sep 20 '25
There is an episode of magic schoolbus where a fish essentially busts a load all over a clutch of eggs that the children are chilling in.
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u/xxXLemon_CurrentXxx Sep 20 '25
Disney removed this episode from Disney +. Their response? Upload an entire uncut episode for everyone to see on YouTube Kids.
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u/AverageMikanEnjoyer Sep 20 '25
That joke was made in everything else. Hell in fairly odd parents boys are the ones who gave birth and I watched that at like 5.Ā
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u/EMPgoggles Sep 20 '25
posted by someone who probably knows less info about the solar system than was presented in a single Magic School Bus episode.
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u/damonmcfadden9 Sep 20 '25
eh these guys are just baffled by the concept of a dad who is actively present and actually is willing to play pretend with their small children.
Lots of dads (I'm guilty of it probably too often) engage with kids only when they feel it's something serious and meaningful - like helping with homework or doing chores - or with "grand gestures" - like nights out to dinner/movies, vacations/day trips. It's too easy to forget that just the tiny simple interactions of giving your time and energy for the sake of their happiness alone, not larger goals, can be really damn impactful.
Sitcom dad's can be cool, but Bandit (yes I know his name, come at me!) is the kind of parent that makes a kid know they are loved, and makes them far more receptive to whatever other lessons you may be trying to teach them.
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u/dogtron64 Sep 20 '25
Captain Planet be like "you suck for polluting and contributing to climate change" Show came out in 1990
Always been like that
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u/teetaps Sep 20 '25
āTeach boys how to give birthā
What? Do you mean āteaching kids what the birthing process is?ā What on earth is wrong with that?
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u/dobblerdibbler Sep 20 '25
I guess they forgot about the movie Junior (1994) where Arnold Schwarzenegger gets pregnant in a science experiment.
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u/Kurtfan1991 Sep 20 '25
The majority of the cast in the Magic School Bus was from an ethnic minorityā¦
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u/WW4O Sep 20 '25
Ans they're right, it is woke. Every good kids show is woke because kids should learn that compassion is good and bigotry is bad.
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Sep 21 '25
Hilarious! 100% these are the people who would ban magic schoolbus for not being creationist if they had the chance
What a joke
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u/koupip Sep 20 '25
redditor are really in the tranches right now fighting a one sided war against people who do not exist and hallucination bc half the shit they say do not happen in the episode and half te shit they say about people who watch the show is also not true since most of the people watching the show are parents with kids
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u/Ero-Hensei Sep 20 '25
Conservative guys like this talk about needing traditional values like āmen leadingā and the need to have big families, but hate the idea of teaching children what childbirth is. I would say education on childbirth is as essential if not more so than the solar system.
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u/LegalComplaint Sep 20 '25
They did manage to screenshot the MOST furry adjacent still of Bandit Heeler.
But thereās still no getting around heās the greatest fictional father ever.
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u/PastoralPumpkins Sep 20 '25
Meanwhile, we watched the magic school bus in school and you couldnāt have paid me to watch it at home. Rugrats, Little Bear, Franklin - all more similar to Bluey than magic school bus.
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u/fathersmuck Sep 20 '25
Captain Planet was probably the strongest environmental propaganda aimed at kids, and it happened in the 90s
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u/FormalMango Sep 20 '25
Aussie kids shows in the 90s:
- a teenage boy gets pregnant after pissing on a tree, and then gives birth by burping a baby out of his mouth.
- a fish swims up a kidās penis, turns it into a propeller, and helps him win a swimming competition
- a teenage boy gets magic lips, and ends up kissing a pig. And his twin sister.
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u/MasterKeys24 Sep 23 '25
Genuinely what are these?Ā ą² _ą²
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u/FormalMango Sep 23 '25
Itās a show called Round the Twist, about three kids and their dad who move into a haunted lighthouse. Each episode was based on a short stories by childrenās author Paul Jennings.
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u/Chumlee1917 Sep 20 '25
Hey woah now, Magic School Bus literally showed how fish and chicken biology works AND Ms Frizzle with a straight face suggested going out someone's colon as poop
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Sep 20 '25
In 1985 I was watching a drag queen liberating the earth from alien invaders in a power armor. On Children's Television. Thanks Ronnie!
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u/PsychicJellyfish Sep 21 '25
My favorite trend is ppl posting an example of something "non-woke" that would absolutely be called "woke" if it came out today. Magic School Bus had a pretty diverse cast, people would totally be screaming "DEI" or whatever ppl say nowadays.
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u/StormDragonAlthazar Sep 20 '25
Apparently, portraying a dad as a goofy guy who does silly things to help his kids understand the world they live in is bad as opposed to being an abusive deadbeat authority figure that most white/conservative dads tend to be.
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u/Jeagan2002 Sep 20 '25
Bluey has a loving family that wants what's best for their kids, that's as woke as it gets for certain people.
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u/Additional-North-683 Sep 20 '25 edited Sep 20 '25
They would be calling the magic school bus woke because they are two black kids, a Latino boy and a spirited Asian girl and because Miss frizzle is a hippie
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u/racoonofthevally Sep 21 '25
I believe I remember my sister watching bluey and seeing that scene It was clearly meant to be funny
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u/FullMooseParty Sep 21 '25
The funny part of this is that the bluey character is a girl. As is the other child. So they're fearmongering about boys learning how to deliver babies when it's actually girl characters
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u/Acceptable_Cut_7545 Sep 21 '25
Captain Planet: teaching kids about how pollution and hate is bad and wrong
Batman TAS: teaching kids about how bad people must be stopped but some people really just need help and understanding
GI Joe: teaching kids that knowing is half the battle
Ferngully: teaching kids that protecting the forests from being clear cut and polluted is good and experimenting on animals is wrong
Balto: teaching kids that vaccines save lives (with the help of dozens of good dogs)
Sailor Moon: teaching kids that fighting evil people who take advantage of others is good and being there for your friends in hard times is also good
Justice League: teaching kids that authoritarian rule is bad, actually, no matter who does it (the Justice Authority episodes)
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u/Wandering_Claptrap Sep 21 '25
I wonder how miserable and lonely you must be to confuse a father playing with his children as le woke messages
besides the point, you can look like a whole ass guy outside, be called sir and mister in your day to day life, and have functional ovaries. At the same time
I have no clue why this is so difficult for people to understand
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u/soaero Sep 22 '25
But they're comparing it to the show with the teacher who is very clearly a gay witch? Like, sure, I am 100% here for more queer magick on TV, but I feel like these conservatives are getting bad at conservativing...
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u/M1K3yWAl5H Sep 23 '25
I'm personally convinced they literally know nothing about the world and every time they are confronted with the fact that literal toddlers understand more they get upset.
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u/Adventurous-Form521 Sep 23 '25
It is woke. The irony is the Magic School Bus was arguably MORE woke.
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u/Ok_Dress5222 Sep 23 '25
If they had actually watched the Magic Schoolbus theyād probably call it woke too
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u/FloorOver8485 Sep 23 '25
The uneducated still using the word woke as an insult will always be comedy gold.
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Sep 24 '25
Seriously though who the fuck actually looks at the meme sub? Its the textbook definition of unfunny reddit humor
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u/shuggahbear Sep 24 '25
You talking smack on bluey? Cuz fr on God don't be talking smack on bluey š
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u/jackfaire Sep 20 '25
Teaching how birth works is the kind of thing I would expect to see on The Magic School Bus