I agree with you. I didn’t see anything wrong with it for children today. It was fun, she was wearing “dress up cloths” and not showing any more than a kid will see on TV or out on the street today. Sesame Street should never have caved to whoever was putting the pressure on them to pull it. Censorship works both ways and people should never forget that.
True.
But this wasn't censorship. It was self-censorship. There's a difference.
There wasn’t outside pressure to censor the particular clip. This was a decision made in-house at the Childrens Television Workshop which produces ‘Sesame Street’.
Sorry but I don’t want my little daughter to be exposed to a tramp and getting the idea that women have to dress like whores. Maybe she wasn’t showing any more than your kids see, but if more traditional parents have to start censoring Sesame Street, then something’s horribly wrong in the world.