There will be detractors, but that isn’t going to stop the Internet from having a little bit of fun along the way.įor the most part, the convseration about SpongeBob and Nickelodeon's Pride tweet was all in good fun. It remains to be seen what Nickelodeon will say when someone inevitably asks about it.
Today, fans of SpongeBob are feeling valued and genuinely happy because of this post. “What it does is send a message to kids that whoever they are, however they identify, that’s celebrated and valued and okay. They think this has to do with pushing an agenda on kids and it doesn’t,” he reflected. They think this has to do with sexuality and it doesn’t. When you disempower one population, you disempower everybody… These are my people. The level of - let’s be polite - misunderstanding around trans issues is so profound and so destructive. “This crazy backlash and oppression of rights is happening right in front of me,” he added. Believe me, it would have been so convenient if I was actually a woman.”
No matter how hard I tried, it was not up for negotiation. “What my body said about it was irrelevant. I identify as male, and I am proud that I have had a transgender experience - a transgender journey… In my experience, I was born male,” Cohen explained. Everything going on in the world at the time motivated the decision to share his story. He also gave an interview to Time last year where he revealed that he had transitioned 20 years ago. Cohen plays Scwartz on the Nickelodeon show. Happy #PrideMonth from and the rest of the #ViacomCBS family. (?: by /pENmTaQB0h- Nickelodeon June 13, 2020īeing yourself is a pretty fabulous thing. And while Nickelodeon’s post had some perhaps erroneously spreading the word that SpongeBob was “confirmed” to be gay, others were celebrating him as the asexual icon he already is:Ĭelebrating #Pride with the LGBTQ+ community and their allies this month and every month ? There’s a lot of vindication on the web right now as people revisit the old questions about certain scenes in a new light. However, there is still debate over whether asexuality is part of the LGBTQ+ umbrella.įans are taking Nickelodeon's post and the fact that the replies to the tweet are turned off as a sign that SpongeBob is gay. Nickelodeon’s post doesn't necessary automatically mean that SpongeBob is gay, but, being asexual, is part of the LGBTQ+ community, which is vast and diverse. SpongeBob has become a sort of mascot for the LGBTQ+ community in its 20+ years its been on-air. He’s asexual, or even - in Kenny’s words - pre-sexual.
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Unless Nickelodeon is going back on series creator Hillenburg’s statements, SpongeBob isn’t gay. Like Captain Kirk is married to the Enterprise. Like, “Wow, apparently having a girlfriend is what you’re supposed to do, I’ll go get one.” But that’s not where his mind is at. I guess the only way SpongeBob could maybe have a girlfriend is if he was trying to imitate, if it was imitative behavior.
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Like, they’re too young and naïve to have any feelings of that type, and even if they do have stirrings they don’t know how to act on them. "I think our take on SpongeBob and Patrick is that they’re pre-sexual characters. He was doubtful, saying the characters were even “pre-sexual”: HuffPost asked the voice of SpongeBob, Tom Kenny, in 2015 about possible significant others in the little sponge’s future. In point of fact, sea sponges do reproduce asexually. When Hillenburg made this claim, he was under intense scrutiny from anti-LGBTQ+ lobbying groups who believed that SpongeBob in some way promoted homosexuality to children, so fans believe that Hillenburg may have called SpongeBob asexual just to avoid this controversy. I really don’t pay much attention to this.” He added that there are “more important issues to worry about.