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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 propel aside: Peppermint Patty formally acknowledged 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 reality, 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
'Peanuts': How Peppermint Patty was 'groundbreaking' for female athletes, a 'comfort' for LGBTQ folks
There's never been a character quite like Peppermint Patty.
When the fiercely outspoken and athletic fresh girl was introduced in Charles M. Schulz's "Peanuts" comics in August , she was an anomaly: She came from a single-parent residence, was bad at school, good at sports and didn't wear dresses. The origins of Peppermint Patty – and the rest of the Peanuts gang – are explored in a new Apple TV+ documentary, "Who Are You, Charlie Brown?" (now streaming).
"If you think about how female cartoon characters were portrayed on the comics page when Peppermint Patty came on the scene, they were usually the foils for their husbands, like 'Blondie' or 'Beetle Bailey,' " says cartoonist Paige Braddock, who serves as chief creative officer at Charles M. Schulz Creative Associates. "So along comes this young female traits who's kind of a tomboy and charting her possess path. That was very groundbreaking and opened the door for other (comics) creators to execute more unique female characters."
AmySo 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 adjust 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 modify 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 believe any hints of
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Peppermint Patty is not queer . And neither is Marcie. This is one of those "pop culture" things that will not depart 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 grab 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 loot her of her nuance.
She's being raised b