Demagogue

An excellent column on the Buster-the-bunny-promotes-lesbianism furor, quite funny in many places. But its ultimate point is serious, and cuts to the heart of the controversy.

Of course, no child watching this episode is any more likely to be brainwashed into becoming gay than into copying Buster and growing rabbit ears.

The danger, such as it is, lies elsewhere. The episode's two couples - Karen and Gillian, and their friends Tracy and Gina - come across as perilously likable people and loving parents. They're awfully hard to distinguish from acceptable folks. It might be tricky, then, to convince a child who's "exposed to the lifestyles portrayed in this episode" that these women should be demonized for being who they are. As usual, information is a threat to blind prejudice.