[Black Dagger]

Originally Posted by Brillopad

You can get raped in a big city or a small country town on a night out period if you are female. You can get battered for anything. Why is it any different being gay?

If you can't see it I am not going to force you too. You be you!

[Oliver_W]

What's that cartoon where the boy's sister is a lez, and his friend has gay parents?

[Mystic Mock]

Originally Posted by Oliver_W

What's that cartoon where the boy's sister is a lez, and his friend has gay parents?

Are you on about The Loud House? I love the practical joker in that cartoon, she has my awful sense of humour.

With Steven Universe I'm glad that they're joining this campaign to make gay relationships acceptable on children's TV, and hopefully they don't make them as annoying as adult TV Show romances can be between two homosexuals sometimes.

[montblanc]

Originally Posted by Mystic Mock

Are you on about The Loud House? I love the practical joker in that cartoon, she has my awful sense of humour.

that show is a scream

[Maru]

True story, but the first year or so of my life on the internet was dedicated to searching SM spoilers/trailers and downloading videos in the school lab... to floppies. Lots and lots of floppies... where-ever I could find them, used, unused all the same to me

Adult Swim was a welcome change to the young anime fan in the US who had to pay through the nose for "unaltered" copies of things. Not so bad if you got it on DVD, but in the case of SM and licensing issues, the only way we could get SM unaltered /w subs was to pay some weird website to create homebrewed VHS' with their own subtitles...

Then came the wonderful age of IRC fileservs and CD burners

[Crimson Dynamo]

never heard of it

[armand.kay]

Originally Posted by LeatherTrumpet

never heard of it

I don't think you're the target audience luv

[Brillopad]

Originally Posted by armand.kay

I don't think you're the target audience luv

No - the young and innocent are luv!

[armand.kay]

Originally Posted by Brillopad

No - the young and innocent are luv!

And the scene is very innocent and appropriate for children. Whats your point?

[Crimson Dynamo]

Originally Posted by armand.kay

I don't think you're the target audience luv

no as its a kiddies show luv I guess i am not....

[Nicky91]

one small step for Cartoon Network telly, one giant leap for the LGBTQ community


amazing news this

[Brillopad]

Originally Posted by Nicky91

one small step for Cartoon Network telly, one giant leap for the LGBTQ community


amazing news this

Not for many parents shouting - not with my children you don’t. Much Cartoon Network banning I think.

[Crimson Dynamo]

I guess its progress and the modern thing to do but i hope that they state that same sex marriage is a very tiny percentage of all marriage and that being gay is only say 4 % of all people and stick to facts then kids will be like ok no big deal?

[Ammi]

..I do agree with you, Brillo...that explaining or showing things that develop education which are sex related do come later...it all has to be age appropriate...and an individual parent will decide age appropriate for some things for their child...but love and marriage etc are not age appropriate things....

[Ammi]

...lol...’will you marry me please to help raise that statistic and make it 4.000000000001...is just not that romantic of a proposal I don’t think......

...let’s keep it relatable to love and romance which is what it’s about...

[Crimson Dynamo]

Originally Posted by Ammi

...lol...’will you marry me please to help raise that statistic and make it 4.000000000001...is just not that romantic of a proposal I don’t think......

...let’s keep it relatable to love and romance which is what it’s about...

no lets stick to facts

[Brillopad]

Originally Posted by Ammi

..I do agree with you, Brillo...that explaining or showing things that develop education which are sex related do come later...it all has to be age appropriate...and an individual parent will decide age appropriate for some things for their child...but love and marriage etc are not age appropriate things....

But adult relationships, be it marriage or civil partnerships are based on sex - they are directly related - you can’t separate the two. It sometimes feels that some people, and I don’t mean all gay people, just some people, are trying to mould young fragile minds and steer them into their way of thinking - start with the ostensibly innocent act of slipping gay love into cartoons and then the rest when they get to secondary school.

It’s natural to want to protect the young and vulnerable and not expose them to outside influences from things they don’t need to understand so young. Just make it clear love is about loving and caring for everyone. I think we are making things too complicated too young.

[armand.kay]

Originally Posted by Brillopad

But adult relationships, be it marriage or civil partnerships are based on sex - they are directly related - you can’t separate the two. It sometimes feels that some people, and I don’t mean all gay people, just some people, are trying to mould young fragile minds and steer them into their way of thinking - start with the ostensibly innocent act of slipping gay love into cartoons and then the rest when they get to secondary school.

It’s natural to want to protect the young and vulnerable and not expose them to outside influences from things they don’t need to understand so young. Just make it clear love is about loving and caring for everyone. I think we are making things too complicated too young.

so if you were to have a gay couple in your family you would just hide them away from your children?

[Brillopad]

Originally Posted by armand.kay

so if you were to have a gay couple in your family you would just hide them away from your children?

No. In that situation it would need to be explained to the child by the parents in the simplest possible way. You answer according to the questions asked using a bit of commonsense. That doesn’t mean all children need to understand so young.

[Oliver_W]

Originally Posted by Brillopad

But adult relationships, be it marriage or civil partnerships are based on sex - they are directly related - you can’t separate the two.

So does that mean any form of marriage or relationship should be hidden from kids' shows?

[Brillopad]

Originally Posted by Oliver_W

So does that mean any form of marriage or relationship should be hidden from kids' shows?

Don’t try and railroad me Oliver - you know exactly what I mean.

[Ammi]

Originally Posted by Brillopad

But adult relationships, be it marriage or civil partnerships are based on sex - they are directly related - you can’t separate the two. It sometimes feels that some people, and I don’t mean all gay people, just some people, are trying to mould young fragile minds and steer them into their way of thinking - start with the ostensibly innocent act of slipping gay love into cartoons and then the rest when they get to secondary school.

It’s natural to want to protect the young and vulnerable and not expose them to outside influences from things they don’t need to understand so young. Just make it clear love is about loving and caring for everyone. I think we are making things too complicated too young.

..I honestly still don’t understand, Brillo...is Cinderella and Prince Charming..(..for instance..)...not an adult relationship...not an adult portrayal of falling in love...where was the sex in that...?...where did we say, no that’s not ok to portray love to children because we will make them think of sex if we do that...?...what would be the difference on TV or in a movie or a book etc...if the two people were of the same sex...it’s still love and it’s still an age appropriate portrayal of love..?...children see parental displays of love as a natural thing, the holding of hands, the hugs, the kisses etc...because love doesn’t display anything sexual between two people...?...

[Ammi]

...What if a a small child were to say ‘I have two daddies’ or ‘I have a papa and a daddy, I don’t have a mummy, like you do’....would we say...well yes that’s lovely, some people do have a mummy and a daddy and some people have a papa and daddy and that’s perfectly normal, we’re all unique families, type thing...or would we say...shhhhh now, we don’t talk about that, we don’t address that, that’s a ‘taboo subject’...you’ll find out when you’re older and able to understand it...’but I do understand it because I have them, that’s what I have...a daddy and a papa...’.....what’s to understand...?....

[The Slim Reaper]

Originally Posted by LeatherTrumpet

I guess its progress and the modern thing to do but i hope that they state that same sex marriage is a very tiny percentage of all marriage and that being gay is only say 4 % of all people and stick to facts then kids will be like ok no big deal?

I completely agree with this. Obviously feelings of love are difficult for children to understand whereas the mathematical discipline of statistics is a walk in the park. Hopefully cartoon network will throw in some linear algebra and stochastic analysis to accompany a scene in which a moving drawing of a person proposes to another moving drawing of a person.

[Twosugars]

if relationships stuff is all sex then let's ban most of the fairy tales