Only one month after his breakup with Miss Piggy, Kermit the Frog has a new girlfriend and people are pissed. Her name is Denise. Muppet fans aren’t upset that Kermit has a new girlfriend, but they are mainly upset at what Denise looks like. She is younger and skinnier than Miss Piggy.
Cenk Uygur, John Iadarola (ThinkTank), Hannah Cranston (ThinkTank) and hosts of The Young Turks discuss. Is Denise the pig anti-feminst? Let us know in the comments.
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Kermit the Frog has announced that, despite yesterday’s rumors, a pig puppet named Denise is actually not his new girlfriend. Unfortunately, his announcement didn’t come soon enough — people had already started freaking out about how sick and anti-feminist it was that Denise was thinner and younger than his ex Miss Piggy.
“Well, apparently Kermit can’t get enough of women like his ex – as long as they’re younger and thinner than her and less successful than him (but still work at ABC, so he can rub her in Miss Piggy’s face),”
Megan Carpentier, the U.S. opinion editor for The Guardian, wrote in a piece titled “Kermit the Frog’s New Girlfriend Is Younger, Thinner — and Blander.”