This infamous cake has been making rounds, and it’s even funnier to Danes because the animals on top are Bamse and Kylling (Teddy and Chicken), two of the oldest and most beloved character for children in Denmark.
The show might even have been popular with people on here if it had made it outside of Denmark, because it had no fucks to give about gender and sexuality.
Bamse (Teddy) was male, Ælling (Duckling) was female and Kylling (Chicken) was genderless.
Bamse and Kylling had a pink tutu that they were forever fighting over because they both wanted to wear it, as well as pair of shorts with leopard print that was understood to be the “boy’s clothes”. They also pretended to get married several time and could never quite agree on who was the bride.
It was so normalized that most people didn’t even realize what the show was teaching them about gender until it was pointed out to them as adults.
