These cookies ensure basic functionalities and security features of the website, anonymously. Necessary cookies are absolutely essential for the website to function properly. Sorry!” she added sarcastically, even though she was getting paid to say the exact thing she suggested she wasn’t allowed to say.

I don’t think that girls- Oh, you’re not even allowed to say that anymore. “I think that’s a boys’- Right? That’s a boys’ cartoon. “I never was into Scooby Doo,” Ingraham admitted, raising the question of why she devoted a segment to Velma’s crush on a woman. He then said that she is not canonically gay – even though she is portrayed as queer in the latest official film from the franchise – because Hanna-Barbera didn’t intend for her to be gay when the show was first created in 1969. Later in the segment, Arroyo compared Velma having a crush on a woman to being a serial killer. But when a character dates or has a crush on someone of the same sex, many conservatives describe it as inherently sexual even if there is no mention of sexual activity. Heterosexuality has been ubiquitous in children’s cartoons for decades even Scooby Doo‘s Fred and Daphne were portrayed as dating in some of the franchise’s movies. “Sexualize” is a word that conservatives have been using this past year to refer to any mention of LGBTQ people. I’m waiting for them to tell us that Scooby and Shaggy shared more than a Scooby Snack” /3rcQHTodQw “This is kind of really offensive on the level that we’re disrupting these beloved characters.

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