(LifeSiteNews) – The top Netflix children’s cartoon CoComelon Lane went viral this week for a clip from a recent episode that promotes same-sex parenting and child cross-dressing.
The scene features a little boy dancing in a tutu while his two supposed “fathers” sing a song centered on the lesson, “Just be you.” This week, CoComelon Lane and the show CoComelon from which it spun off held the first and second slots in the Netflix Kids Top Ten rankings.
The new CoComelon Lane on Netflix has a boy in a dress dance for his 2 gay dads
CoComelon is the most popular show for babies and toddlers ages 2+ pic.twitter.com/wSYyEZEzMJ
— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) December 20, 2023
The clip went viral among conservatives, who slammed Netflix and CoComelon’s producers for depriving families of yet another outlet for safe children’s programming free from sexual indoctrination, and argued that it underscores the need for “non-woke” alternatives such as The Daily Wire’s recently-launched Bentkey platform:
Stop letting Hollywood indoctrinate your kids in gender garbage. https://t.co/KFK8pLLEPr right now. https://t.co/4d76ir5tJh
— Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) December 20, 2023
Just a matter of time, of course. Can’t have anything natural and edifying. Cocomelon was actually wholesome. The mom and dad were loving to each other. Some songs emphasized traditional gender roles. Now we get a boy in a tutu. https://t.co/V097CIUszP
— Allie Beth Stuckey (@conservmillen) December 20, 2023
This I took personally. This feels like they’re going after my son Winchester who loves Cocomelon.
The left has this weird religion about sexuality, and they can’t stand the thought of a four-year-old not knowing about it.
That’s why I write for https://t.co/MIz0Zobd3r. You… https://t.co/g77MDErMLl
— Frank J. Fleming (@IMAO_) December 20, 2023
Even aside from the gay and transgender stuff in this, “just be you” is terrible advice to a toddler. The you most of us are at age 2 is the you that screams for ice cream. https://t.co/vYlFizXGAr
— Inez Stepman ⚪️🔴⚪️ (@InezFeltscher) December 20, 2023
The Daily Wire further reported that Candle Media, the company behind the CoComelon franchise, was founded by former Disney executives Kevin Mayer and Tom Staggs. “Earlier this month, Bloomberg reported that the company has more than $1 billion in debt largely due to failures of shows such as CoComelon to meet earnings forecasts,” the report adds.
CoComelon Lane joins a long list of supposed “family-friendly” entertainment properties that have promoted LGBT awareness, acceptance, and celebration to children in recent years, including Cartoon Network’s Adventure Time, Steven Universe, and Clarence; PBS’s Sesame Street and Arthur, Netflix’s Voltron: Legendary Defender and She-Ra & the Princesses of Power; Nickelodeon’s The Legend of Korra, The Loud House, and Blue’s Clues; Disney’s Star vs. The Forces of Evil and Doc McStuffins, Hasbro’s Power Rangers, Amazon’s Danger & Eggs, and Entertainment One’s Peppa Pig.
Whether intended to promote social agendas or merely to appease vocal and persistent “representation” demands, this infusion of children’s shows with LGBT characters and messages inevitably forces families into discussions for which parents may feel their children are too young, as well as sets impressionable young viewers on a collision course between the shows’ simple, one-sided, feel-good presentation of controversial issues and parents’ own values.