Fox Information host Jesse Watters appeared deeply troubled Tuesday that “Lightyear,” a digitally animated youngsters’s film from 2022, includes a lesbian couple that (gasp!) kisses one another — and claimed this mundane illustration of actuality is “a slippery slope.”
His feedback got here after “I Wanna Fuck You” rapper Snoop Dogg stated final month on a podcast that he “didn’t come in for this shit” when he watched the film, and that the lesbian kiss would unfairly pressure him to elucidate the romantic act to his inquisitive grandson.
Watters empathized Tuesday on “The Five” — the place the one liberal co-host pushed again whereas discussing analysis round a Cheerios advert that featured an interracial household.
“I think it is a good thing to have children who are being born today, like my kids, won’t notice there’s a Black dad and a white mom in that ad, versus when I was growing up, that I would be like, ‘Oh, that’s different than what I typically see,’” Jessica Tarlov stated.
She continued, “You can be comfortable with the fact that there are two men kissing or two women kissing. I’m not saying you need to go deep into their bedroom and what’s going on there, but I don’t see what’s so offensive about that. There are gay couples all around us.”
Tarlov famous that same-sex {couples} have “every right” to kiss one another, just for Watters to ask, “Lesbians?” He then interrupted to ask if she meant “gays,” prompting Tarlov to elucidate that each female and male same-sex {couples} deserve illustration.
“OK,” Watters stated. “That’s what I wanted to hear.”
The panel finally devolved into heated crosstalk, with Fox Information contributor Tyrus stating he doesn’t even need to see “a straight couple kissing in a cartoon,” and Tarlov making an attempt to interact with that argument earlier than co-host Dana Perino indignantly interrupted.
“It’s a cartoon!” she exclaimed, with co-host Paul Mauro asking Tarlov, “What about trans?”
“But ‘Sleeping Beauty,’ how do you save her? I mean, this is like …” Tarlov replied, when Tyrus interrupted to say, “She was dead, to be fair.” Tarlov reminded him that the character was asleep, as her identify implies, just for Mauro to state: “The problem is trans is next.”
Watters then reaffirmed his personal bigotry and stated, “It’s a slippery slope, Jessica.”
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The conservative pundit has beforehand used his Fox Information platform to decree what “real men” supposedly shouldn’t do, which incorporates all method of regular actions — similar to utilizing a straw, serving to your partner purchase groceries or utilizing Photoshop to edit an image.
He additionally as soon as demanded of politically energetic celebrities: “I need to know if someone is gay.”
