Blues Clues and You gets queer again
This song MIGHT be about the drag bans, my thoughts below.
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Onto the fun stuff.
So, if you haven’t seen it yet, Blues Clues and You posted this video last month.
If you aren’t able to watch the video yourself, in the video, one of the preschoolers, who has short dyed hair and is dressed in overalls, wants to wear a pink princess dress and a football helmet. One of their classmates laughs at them until the song tells them they need to be a better ally. And by the end of the song we learn that this girl just wanted to wear the football helmet herself all along and that’s why she was laughing.
Is it possible that this is totally unrelated to the anti-trans and drag bans, I guess? But it seems pretty pointed.
And it wouldn’t be the first time Blues Clues made a statement with queer content either. There have been three big pieces of queer content from the show.
The first was the Alphabet song in Feb 2021.
The second was the pride parade with Nina West in May 2021.
The last was a mailbox of queer families during pride in June 2021.
Suffice it to say it hasn’t been done in a while.
The great thing about this video is that even if that wasn’t the intention, it can easily be the outcome anyway.
A kid can watch this, and decide they are going to wear a dress cause they want to. A parent can see this and finally see where their kid is coming from if they haven’t already.
Republicans will evidently find a reason that this content isn’t okay, but in this moment when everything looks so bleak this gives me hope.
Florida and Texas and Tennessee can ban drag and public transitioning, can ban kids from learning what queer even is. If the state is going to ban it then it becomes the job of television to educate the kids. I mean, after all, that’s why Sesame Street was created in the first place.
The moral of the video is, anyone can wear a dress or a football helmet, or both.
And it’s so powerful for Blues Clues and You to make that statement right now.
With media like this, there is hope for the kids. Educational media has done the work in place of the school before, it can do it again.
We have to keep celebrating the wins.
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