Step back, I'm about to climb on my soap box...don't laugh if I fall off because I am very clumsy.

What is the deal with the flood of male role models in children's television!?!? I resent it. Where are the strong women roles? There aren't any! All women portrayed on children's shows are only there to be arm candy for the manly main characters. I have absolutely no research or evidence to back up my claims, but I'm sure I'm right so I don't need proof.

Oh yes....you are special! RIP Dear Mr. Rogers, you were an oldie and a goodie. If you're into father figures, I picked a pic of MR back while he was hot (well hot for MR!) so you could look at him and think.....Meeee-oowww! Who's your Daddy, MR!?!

Oh yeah, you knew I was gonna go here, didn'tcha? We all know that Mr. Blue Wiggle is the most hotenous hottie on the Wiggles. But again, no female leads in this show. The obsurd octapus doesn't count since she isn't human. Another show dominated my the men-folks, though we couldn't exactly get by with calling them **manly** men-folks.


Some of you may not be familiar with these lesser known male characters. These are from Lazy Town....you know....the place where you wanna stay? Things are upside down there in Lazy Town and adventure is just a moment away. For realz. On top, we have Robbie Rotten, which, if you're into bad boys, he's your man. Sporticus is on the bottom and I think he's kinda hot. Again, the only girls on this show are either puppets, or a pre-pubescent girlie with hot pink hair. Miserable choices if I were picking a role model. Sporticus may not be a poor choice for a bed-mate, he can do flips and cart wheels and stuff. It could get pretty interesting. OH AND HE CAN DO THE SPLITS!!


Oh yes, oh yes, these are the Kratt brothers, Chris and Martin. When I was younger, these were my brand of poison. Hot animal lovers...er...that sounds bad. They're zoologists AND they're hot. Or well, they were to me, not notosmuch. NO CHICKS ON THIS SHOW EITHER!!

The man in the yellow hat. The epitome of single parenting....well unless you're a single MOM and then there are no examples of that. TMITYH never looses his patience with that stupid monkey, he never yells, he's always down with whatever dumb stunts that freak George has pulled. Wow, he's a saint too! TMITYH never dates so there are no adult female leads in this show either.


So...now it is 'go time' and I am about to share WHY I believe these show are all male-centered.

ready?

are you sure?

wait for it....

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I know the sky-rocketing divorce rates are to blame for this! Some big shot TV executive with a big house in the Hamptons, a loving wife, 2.35 kids, a hot nanny, and a mistress decided that our kids need strong male role models and that's why there are no chicks on any of the shows.
Something like 74% of the entire population gets divorced every year, and while that is staggering and shocking, I don't think it is a good enough reason to take hot, successful chicks out of children's programming.

...........or there could be some other, well researched, reasonable explanation for all these boys on my TV and I could be totally wrong. I'm willing to accept this as an option too. But without my misguided beliefs, what would I blog about!?!?

So there. Have a great day everyone. :)