Peppermint patty gay
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Peppermint Patty is not gay. And neither is Marcie. This is one of those "pop culture" things that will not perish and I'm so so so tired of it. As recently as last month, Entertainment Weekly had a little sidebar in their gay pride issue about TV characters who gays recognize with and one of them was Peppermint Patty. I can understand why people would relate to her, but that doesn't make her gay. I relate to Ariel, but that doesn't make me a sixteen year old girl or a mermaid, nor does it make Ariel a man.
Peppermint Patty is a tomboy, and she definitely stands out from the other girls of the Peanuts universe. Sally, Lucy, Patty (the other one that no one remembers), Violet all wear dresses. Peppermint Patty doesn't. She's athletic. And in most animated specials, she's got kind of a husky voice. But to take all of these things at face value and label her lesbian because of them is to oppose her her identity for one ascribed to her, and to rob her of her nuance.
She's being raised b
So WHAT is the Deal With Peppermint Patty?
Tuckerfan1
We all know the gag about her and Marcie being “an item”, but what was Schulz thinking when he created the characters? And didn’t he ever ponder that maybe he should transform the characters once folks began making jokes?
_Sky2
Maybe he wanted to show that girls could compete sports just like boys.
RealityChuck3
They are just friends, and were always meant to be.
A creator can’t be responsible for what adj minded people think of his work. The characters were his, and he had no reason to change them just because someone interpreted them in one particular way.
drmark
Peppermint Patty makes an awful lot of overtures toward Charlie Brown to be considered a lezzie. Marcie calls Patty “sir” because she’s both bright and clueless, a humorous combination. Patty generally objects to being called “sir.” If she were a dykester, she might be more inclined to encourage this.
GuanoLad5
I’m pretty sure Marcie also had a crush on Charlie Brown for a while.
They’re meant to be nine year old kids. I think any hints of
Is Peppermint Patty gay?
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If she is that is great because she is a great rolemodel.
But we must remember that these are just drawings and not real life therefore
it is lock to impossible to know what is really behind the chacater.
I think that she is simply a tomboy. Not some pride flag carrying, Lilth Fair
Warrior, lose with me and I'll beat up kinda girl. She is basically a child
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The Case For Bisexual Peppermint Patty [Pride Week]
Between the new television cartoon, last year's remarkable CGI movie, the new comics place out by Kaboom and the themed strip collections put out by Fantagraphics to supplement the The Complete Peanuts series, it's been a good time to be a fan of the work of Charles M. Schulz. But in absorbing a lot of this stuff, something leaped out at me that I can't verb aside: Peppermint Patty formally known as Patricia Reichardt should be bisexual.
Peppermint Patty & Marcie are one of two pairs of children's characters (the other being Bert & Ernie of Sesame Street) thought of as queer with varying degrees of seriousness. It's generally taken as read, just a tacit proof, and Melanie Gillman & Molly Ostertag wrote wonderful stories exploring the pair in last year's Peanuts: A Tribute To Charles M. Schulz.
Besides Marcie's constantly calling Patty "Sir," there's the fact that the two are almost never seen apart. They constantly bounc