Ex-firefighter Mr Jones, 74, began working on the idea for Fireman Sam - Sam Tan in Welsh - in the 1980s after he heard Mike Young on BBC Radio 2 talking about his cartoon project SuperTed."It is supposed to teach kids some small safety items. Someone doesn't join the fire service when they watch Fireman Sam.Mr Jones sold the programme, illustrated by Rob Lee from Cardiff, to Mattel in 2002.
Data shows that 5.2% of firefighters in England are women and 3.9% are from an ethnic minority background, according to the National Fire Chiefs Council. Meanwhile, the London Fire Brigade, using #FirefightingSexism in its campaign, tweeted that Penny Morris, a firefighting character in Fireman Sam, is"devalued".
Any gays in Pontypandy ?
'Mum, I want to be a firefighter when I grow up' 'But what about Fireman Sam?' 'Oh yeah, I forgot about him. I'll have to do something else now. That's a shame'
How pathetic. Never heard so much crap in all my life!!!
The fireperson needs to be either male or female. Eitherway they could be accused of sexism. I also noticed the fireperson wasn't black or disabled. It's actually ageist because the fireperson is young .
Ironman , come on how sexist can you get. Iron person is the correct term. So disappointed in marvel comics.
Its fireperson bigot
Correct...as you were Sam 👍🏻
I am more concerned how norman has not been prosecuted for causing daily fires and accidents
It's a kids TV show .Some people need to get a life
He’s a puppet.
What patronising crap. Women are not that stupid.
Yeah right , if he was black you will be all over it !! Bias
If it was based around a female firefighter could we argue it puts men off?
If you had fallen asleep in 1999 and woken up now you'd think the world had gone mad.
Could be firefighter Samantha
The claim that women don't want to become fire fighters due to a lack of representation is just ridiculous. Being a fire fighter is a genuinely dangerous job. If youlook at the stats women tend to shy away from dangerous jobs.
We're on the precipice of the biggest political bungle in modern history but no, let's give the 3 lunatics who espouse this stuff about Fireman Sam some publicity
Every day the BBC pushes cultural killing marxist crap like this on anyone that listens, STOP WATCHING THE BBC
We need to start naming and shaming these people who choose to be offended by nothing.
If anything, the roster in Fireman Sam is way ahead of the the real world, in terms of ethnic and gender representation. They will have to find something else to blame.
Somebody needs to get a grip !!! This country is going BONKERS !!!!
This is ridiculous. It's a fab show for kids. Stop ruining everything and get a grip
Make another character/plot where he marries firewomen Samantha and they become co leaders
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Fluid fireperson IM JOKING, IM JOKING!!
How is this even a thing?
Fireman Sam Smith - sort that gender question out!!
I refuse to take the train because ... Thomas.
would it help if he self identified as a black woman?
I remember when people complained that Sponge Bob Square Pants promoted homosexuality due to his friendship with Patrick. Basically... people are cunts and will moan about anything. It's a flash in the pan story. Will be forgotten about by next week.
The whole thing is right-wing propaganda. Gendered job titles, all of the problems in the village caused by the kid with a single mum. Aryan twins, and a man in uniform who solves all the problems. Thatcher’s dream is what it is...
Has everyone gone MAD?
You wait til you see Peppa Pig then; it’s simply a bunch of mammalian stereotypes conforming to a pre-judged set of gender and identity behaviours i.e. you never see Pedro Pony identify as anything other than a pony. Hanging is too good for the people responsible for this.
Are we just going to idly ignore the severe pyromania plague sweeping the streets of Wales? For a small town it does seen to have an abnormally large amount of incidents.
Thought fire persons fought fires not worried about a cartoon bonkers
SCRAP EVERYTHING !
Well he would say that
I stopped eating cheese, just in case it made my dog start knitting !!
Shall we worry about some real problems instead ?
bloody snowflake millennial's not happy unless they can be upset by something, grow up please it's a kids program
Politics kills all forms of joy, even simple cartoons are not exempt from the tightening grip of identity politics
Who in their right minds made this an issue anyway. It's a kids tv programme. Why do these idiots have to judge everything through their own narrow view of the world.
Fireman `SAMantha`... 🤔🤔
Sounds legit. I've abandoned many career options after watching a stop-animation-based children's program.
And what about Pat?
Of course not it’s a bloody kids program
There is in humansbeing .thou
yeah, tell em to fuck off mr jones. they got in thousands of pounds of debt for their pointless gender studies courses, so need to find a way to make some money, which is what all this drama is.
Why would we be debating a children's tv show as if it was a political campaign 😂
she said what? if that puts them off they were likely crap candidates
No shit.
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