Is peppermint patty gay
The Case For Bisexual Peppermint Patty [Pride Week]
Between the new television cartoon, last year's remarkable CGI movie, the new comics deposit 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 propel aside: Peppermint Patty formally recognizable 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 truth, 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
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 think that maybe he should alter the characters once folks began making jokes?
_Sky2
Maybe he wanted to show that girls could play sports just like boys.
RealityChuck3
They are just friends, and were always meant to be.
A creator can’t be responsible for what dirty minded people think of his work. The characters were his, and he had no reason to transform 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 smart 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 assume any hints of
Peppermint Patty is not just a quirky kid with, as she herself puts it, ‘hair entire of split ends’, she’s an representative, and rightly so. In this Peanuts Profile, we seize a look at the art of Patricia Reichardt, or as she’s greater known, Peppermint Patty.
Here&#;s Peppermint Patty, coming in hot from the very starting, showing she is casual, comfortable with herself, and a great but competitive athlete:
Let’s commence by getting one thing clear. Though at the very least, we comprehend that Peppermint Patty is gender gay, Charles Schulz himself said that Peppermint Patty and Marcie were not lesbians. That doesn’t express they can’t be wonderful, inspiring icons for feminism and queer pride. After all, at her debut on August 22nd, , tomboys and girls who were wearing more butch (read comfortable) clothing, were often mocked and ridiculed, or even arrested for wearing predominately men’s attire. It was only the Stonewall Riots of June 28th through July 3rd that helped end that kind of discrimination. Though we are all used to it now, a comic strip ethics that spoke her mind, wo
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Peppermint Patty is not queer . 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 identify 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 get all of these things at face value and label her lesbian because of them is to deny her her self for one ascribed to her, and to steal her of her nuance.
She's being raised b