GOP Senators Call For Warning Label On "Disturbing" LGBTQ Content In Kids' TV Shows

[Eugene]

Source: Deadline

GOP Senators Call For Warning Label On “Disturbing” LGBTQ Content In Kids’ TV Shows

Tom Tapp
Deputy Managing Editor
May 6, 2022 12:40pm

A group of Republican senators is calling for a TV ratings system to warn parents about LGBTQ content in children’s programs. Their statement singles out Disney repeatedly.

GOP Senators Roger Marshall (Kan.), Mike Lee (Utah), Mike Braun (Ind.), Steve Daines (Mont.) and Kevin Cramer (N.D.) sent a letter to Charles Rivkin, Chairman of the TV Guidelines Ratings Board — the entity that manages and monitors the designations on programs such as TV-Y, TV-14, TV-MA, etc.

The missive begins, “In recent years, concerning topics of a sexual nature have become aggressively politicized and promoted in children’s programming, including irreversible and harmful experimental treatments for mental disorders like gender dysphoria.”

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The letter casts suspicion on “the motivations of hyper-sexualized entertainment producers” who, the letter says, are “striving to push this content on young audiences,” calling those motivations “suspect at best and predatory at worst.”

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Read more: https://deadline.com/2022/05/gop-senators-lgbta-tv-ratings-kids-1235018212/

[Grokenstein]

1. "WARNING: The following program may cause open-mindedness in your child."

It's funny (well not really but you know what I mean) because for all Disney's inclusive talk, the quickest way for a hit cartoon to get the rug pulled out from under it and get its future seasons truncated is to introduce LGBTQ content. Just ask the showrunners for Star vs the Forces of Evil (fifth season canned, fourth season rushed to finish the story yet unaired for months after completion) or The Owl House (third season replaced by "specials," second season left half-unaired for months). According to reports, Disney execs claim it's because they prefer episodic, ha-ha shows to extended dramatic serial stories, and yet somehow Amphibia and The Dragon Prince have not felt the hammer.

Disney doesn't pick a side, it seeks to exploit all sides as best it can.

[Haggis 4 Breakfast]

2. Notice they say NOTHING about the proliferation of violence

or bullet counts of blood-soaked drug lords/gang-bangers shoot-outs or the sensationalized, gratuitous and graphic violence against women.

There have been more arrests for kiddie porn lately amongst white, republican men than an other group in the country.

Repub -- CLEAN UP YOUR OWN BACKYARDS.

[dflprincess]

3. Oh dear God,

are they coming after Bert & Ernie again or the Teletubies?

[Deuxcents]

4. The American Taliban are empowered

Take that power away and vote. Top to bottom. Vote. ✍️

[Skittles]

5. translation

repukes want to make sure homophobia is passed down from one generation to the next

[Norton Nork]

6. My prediction.

The GOP seal of disapproval will have at best no effect on ratings, and might serve to boost them.