[Niamh.]

Originally Posted by Northern Monkey

I think that answer would suffice for a little bit until the next day when they would start asking why.
I don't need kids TV to be forcing the issue on kids who are'nt even thinking about relationships yet.

If kids aren't even thinking about relationships yet then they probably wouldn't even notice a gay couple in a TV show, same as they probably don't think about straight couples in TV shows. I mean it's a Kids Tv show not a porn movie

[Northern Monkey]

Originally Posted by Niamh.

If kids aren't even thinking about relationships yet then they probably wouldn't even notice a gay couple in a TV show, same as they probably don't think about straight couples in TV shows. I mean it's a Kids Tv show not a porn movie

They would probably ask why those two daddies are kissing or getting married and say 'where's mummy?'
If they were'nt thinking about it then they certainly would be after seeing that and their brains getting all confused.
I stick by my opinion.You will never turn me

[Niamh.]

Originally Posted by Northern Monkey

They would probably ask why those two daddies are kissing or getting married and say 'where's mummy?'
If they were'nt thinking about it then they certainly would be after seeing that and their brains getting all confused.
I stick by my opinion.You will never turn me

lol I think you need to give kids more credit tbh or less maybe hhhmmm as in I don't think most of them really care that much at all about romantic relationships, my 11 year old still blocks his eyes when people kiss on TV or when me and my husband kiss

[Northern Monkey]

Originally Posted by Niamh.

lol I think you need to give kids more credit tbh or less maybe hhhmmm as in I don't think most of them really care that much at all about romantic relationships, my 11 year old still blocks his eyes when people kiss on TV or when me and my husband kiss

Well mine ask questions......Alot.For as many kids there are like yours there will be just as many like mine and many different to that.This is why i voted no.Maybe some 3 year olds would understand it but not all would.I think gay dudes on TV should be for older kids not 3 year olds and 4 year olds but that's jmo.

[Niamh.]

Originally Posted by Northern Monkey

Well mine ask questions......Alot.For as many kids there are like yours there will be just as many like mine and many different to that.This is why i voted no.Maybe some 3 year olds would understand it but not all would.I think gay dudes on TV should be for older kids but that's jmo.

I get that some kids would ask more questions, it just wouldn't bother me to answer those questions same way as I'd answer any other question and I think it would be beneficial to our society and most especially to gay people for kids to grow up not having a problem with gay people or thinking it was a taboo subject

[Ammi]

..the thing is as well ..If those questions are asked then that's the perfect time for them to be asked and answered because the parent is the one there to give the answers and not someone else and they have the complete control over how they will answer, what their child's level of understanding is, no one knows better than a parent...but if they're not asked, then children go on thinking that male/female parents are the 'norm' ...and so and so through another young generation maybe ..?..when those children become parents themselves ...children ask, they ask anything because of their need to be informed...

[letmein]

Originally Posted by Ammi

..the thing is as well ..If those questions are asked then that's the perfect time for them to be asked and answered because the parent is the one there to give the answers and not someone else and they have the complete control over how they will answer, what their child's level of understanding is, no one knows better than a parent...but if they're not asked, then children go on thinking that male/female parents are the 'norm' ...and so and so through another young generation maybe ..?..when those children become parents themselves ...children ask, they ask anything because of their need to be informed...

People like Northern Monkey are the type that believe in babying their children, raising them to be wimps, wrapping them in bubble wrap so that the poor things can't possibly be exposed to the world around them.

[Northern Monkey]

Originally Posted by Niamh.

I get that some kids would ask more questions, it just wouldn't bother me to answer those questions same way as I'd answer any other question and I think it would be beneficial to our society and most especially to gay people for kids to grow up not having a problem with gay people or thinking it was a taboo subject

Which they will...As they get older they will learn about all of these things and grow up to understand and tolerate everybody hopefully.
What you need to remember is that not all kids are the same and not all parents agree with you.If this ever did happen then hopefully there would atleast be a warning before the show so that parents could choose wether they want their kids to watch.

[Niamh.]

Originally Posted by Northern Monkey

Which they will...As they get older they will learn about all of these things and grow up to understand and tolerate everybody hopefully.
What you need to remember is that not all kids are the same and not all parents agree with you.If this ever did happen then hopefully there would atleast be a warning before the show so that parents could choose wether they want their kids to watch.

Isn't that kind of breaching gay peoples human rights in a country where we're all supposed to be equal? Having to put a warning up?

[user104658]

Originally Posted by Northern Monkey

Well mine ask questions......Alot.For as many kids there are like yours there will be just as many like mine and many different to that.This is why i voted no.Maybe some 3 year olds would understand it but not all would.I think gay dudes on TV should be for older kids not 3 year olds and 4 year olds but that's jmo.

I guess this is only an issue if you don't have any gay friends... my (5 year old) daughter knows about homosexual relationships because one of my oldest and best friends is gay. She was dancing the night away with them at a wedding last month .

I guess that's why I find the censorship of homosexuality on TV not only unfair, but pointless. It's a thing. You can't censor the real world, so your best bet is just to do your best to explain it.

[Niamh.]

Originally Posted by Toy Soldier

I guess this is only an issue if you don't have any gay friends... my (5 year old) daughter knows about homosexual relationships because one of my oldest and best friends is gay. She was dancing the night away with them at a wedding last month .

I guess that's why I find the censorship of homosexuality on TV not only unfair, but pointless. It's a thing. You can't censor the real world, so your best bet is just to do your best to explain it.

Exactly

[Crimson Dynamo]

Originally Posted by Toy Soldier

I guess this is only an issue if you don't have any gay friends... my (5 year old) daughter knows about homosexual relationships because one of my oldest and best friends is gay. She was dancing the night away with them at a wedding last month .

I guess that's why I find the censorship of homosexuality on TV not only unfair, but pointless. It's a thing. You can't censor the real world, so your best bet is just to do your best to explain it.

Indeed. My parents have been (were) involved in light opera all my life and various choirs and singing groups so I grew up amid theatres watching like 7 Oklahomas in a row when they could not get babysitters and having rehearsals at home like 24fecking7 and subsequently there were lots of gay men who were pals of my parents and still are so my mum being a blunt woman just told me the truth about Ken and Michael from an early age and i never thought too much about it

Not that I am saying gay men and light opera go hand and hand

But they seem to


Funnily enough I cant think of a musical with a gay character

[armand.kay]

Originally Posted by LeatherTrumpet

Funnily enough I cant think of a musical with a gay character

I'm disgusted by the straightwashing tbh

[Black Dagger]

Originally Posted by LeatherTrumpet

Indeed. My parents have been (were) involved in light opera all my life and various choirs and singing groups so I grew up amid theatres watching like 7 Oklahomas in a row when they could not get babysitters and having rehearsals at home like 24fecking7 and subsequently there were lots of gay men who were pals of my parents and still are so my mum being a blunt woman just told me the truth about Ken and Michael from an early age and i never thought too much about it

Not that I am saying gay men and light opera go hand and hand

But they seem to


Funnily enough I cant think of a musical with a gay character

Rent?

[letmein]

Originally Posted by Northern Monkey

They would probably ask why those two daddies are kissing or getting married and say 'where's mummy?'
If they were'nt thinking about it then they certainly would be after seeing that and their brains getting all confused.
I stick by my opinion.You will never turn me

Your opinion is pretty much irrelevant as the world has advanced beyond this. Gays and lesbians are exposed to children. Children are gays and lesbians. There really isn't even a debate. This isn't thread is nonsense.