Not only is Peppa Pig a feminist, she's probably a rabid socialist too

The left wing bias is getting out of hand at the ABC. Thankfully, one brave soul at News Corp has finally written something about it. Their silence was starting to get quite concerning.

Piers Akerman has courageously taken to his blog in the Daily Telegraph to pinpoint the worst of the bias. Not content with beaming noted propagandists like Poh Ling Yeow, Chris Lilley and Costa Georgiadis into our lounge rooms, Aunty has imported a Marxist-Leninist personality from the – I quote – “bias-ridden BBC.” This latter-day Germaine Greer is none other than Peppa Pig, who “pushes a weird feminist line that would be closer to the hearts of Labor’s Handbag Hit Squad than the pre-school audience it is aimed at.”

For the unfamiliar, Peppa Pig is the main character of the eponymous cartoon show aimed at children seven and under. And while I am in total agreement with my esteemed colleague Piers, I fear that by not identifying what in fact makes Peppa such a threat, he has left himself open to ridicule from the small-minded inner city elite. Therefore, I humbly present a (no doubt incomplete) catalogue of Ms Pig’s worst excesses.

In every episode, Peppa Pig manages to cram a kaleidoscope of hard green alarmism, homosexual propaganda and wingnut socialism into just five minutes. The overarching theme of the show is multiculturalism at all costs, with foxes and rabbits portrayed as neighbours. What do children gain from high dose exposure to this unrealistic dreamworld?

As Ackerman points out, "ABC’s all-out publicity campaign to co-opt the use of the term 'marriage'' to describe same-sex unions" is also on full display. Many right-thinking people have suggested that same-sex marriage is a slippery slope, and nothing demonstrates the point better than Peppa Pig. Forget Adam and Steve – how about the insinuated relationship between a potato and a carrot? I think we all know that’s what’s next on the left’s marriage-destroying agenda.

S & M inspired teacher Madame Gazelle plays in an “all-female rock group” to the presence of single parents like Mummy Sheep: nothing traditional is sacred to the manipulative minds at ABC 3!

Ms Pig has also taken it upon herself to teach children about the supposed evils of consumerism, the economy be damned. Again and again the show teaches children the terrible lesson that we don’t need possessions to be happy.

There are also constant references to cycling (with implied bike lanes) and other environmental themes, yet no mention of what Australian children should really be proud of - coal and uranium mining. Then there’s the matter of the show’s “weird feminist line” - that men and women are equals and can even be friends. Ms Pig’s mother even has a job.

Thankfully, the ABC has commissioned an external audit of parts of its current affairs wing for bias. But as my esteemed colleague rightly points out: “much of the rest of the ABC’s contribution to Australian life is just as saturated with left-wing propaganda as its news and current affairs.”

The only logical next step is to send the auditors, backed by the riot squad if necessary, into the offices of ABC3 and ABC4 in Ultimo. It’s the only way to protect our children from the socialist scourge of Peppa Pig, the obscenity that is Almost Naked Animals, the psychedelic drug culture of In The Night Garden and the hip hop ghetto glamour of Sesame Street.