Do you remember this song?
“Can you tell me how to get, how to get to Sesame Street?”
Of course you do. Unless you have been living under a rock, sharing space with Mel Gibson, this was one of the shows of my generation and generations before and after. Now I’m afraid that after 41 years of educating youth, the head cheeses over at Sesame Street corporate have turned soft. They recently pulled a Katy Perry song for being inappropriate.
I can understand the problem. Ms. Perry was in a yellow dress. She chased Elmo around the city, singing about playing dress up. This is where it starts, America. You allow our pop stars to go on a children’s show and the next thing you know, baby liberals and murderous sociopaths will come out of the woodwork.
Come on folks; this is what some of you are worried about? The fact that your kid may have seen some cleavage? Or a fairly bare thigh? Turn on the TV to the E! Network. When you are watching “Keeping up with the Kardashians”, is your kid out of the room? They should be, because even their commercials, are what I would call, well, “slutty.” Desperate Housewives and many other shows have commercials that are downright inappropriate for younger viewers.
But, Sesame Street is designed and developed for young children, you say. Can’t we keep these sexual beings off the show my kid is drooling in front of? The short answer is no. And from what I saw, Miss Perry did nothing inappropriate but sing a song to a Muppet.
Folks, we need to stop letting the uptight have influence over a groundbreaking shows like Sesame Street. It is where I sat after school to get more education by singing, learning the alphabet, and laughing. Sesame Street broke the rules by talking about real things.
So, I say to the bigwigs at Sesame Street, keep doing what has been successful. Keep teaching our youth that it is OK to be different. That it is OK to make mistakes. Keep dealing with controversial subjects. And if the moral majority doesn’t like it, they can turn off the television, and teach their kid how to read write and count without Sesame Street.
Good Luck.
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