*blinks*

[hkellick]

And does anyone else think there's something... not right about Sesame Street introducing an HIV-positive character?

What will they have next? A transgendered character? perhaps a corrupt big businessman character? Perhaps a boy-molesting priest character?

I dunno, I'd have to see this character for myself, really, but I don't think this is necessarily a good thing.

Comments

[phinnia.livejournal.com]

I don't see anything wrong with it. This is an issue that children have to deal with and Sesame Street has always been sensitive to those types of issues. Twenty years ago they made the same fuss over them showing Downs' Syndrome and disabled characters. And now they're normally accepted. We can't expect children to be able to deal with situations that we give them no means to cope with, and we can't expect the next generation to turn out any better than this one if we keep hiding things in the closet.

[lite.livejournal.com]

Like I said, I'm willing to give it a try, but.. it seems.. I dunno...
I think there's an age where you start taking the skeletons out of the closet. I'm not sure the age when you watch Sesame Street is it.