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Why I Disagree With Having LGBT+ Characters In Kids Shows

Well,hello everyone.

It's me again.

For the past year there has been a huge debate about letting kids watch movies or TV shows with LGBT+ characters, or in general exposing young kids to LGBT+.

So I decided to give my opinion on the topic with this take.

Back in October we actually did an expirement in School about this topic,if you want to know the results,feel free to ask me.

Before you continue,I want to make something clear, there is nothing wrong with being homosexual,asexual,bi-sexual or transsexual or anything else.

I have friends that belong in the community and I don't love them less because of their sexuality.

It's your choice,your right to be whoever you want to be and NONE can tell you to change yourself.I'm not here to shame anyone.

This MyTake is my personal point of view, I don't try to offend anyone neither to hurt or anger members of the LGBT+.

Why I Disagree With Having LGBT+ Characters In Kids Shows

1.It Will Confuse Them, Not Only Because It's Different But Also Because It's Controversial.

Why I Disagree With Having LGBT+ Characters In Kids Shows

Just like how we shouldn't brainwash or force children into religion, or anything else, we shouldn't either fill them with questions regarding their sexuality.

If you expose children in homosexuality or transexuality the results aren't guratanteed to be positive. The whole topic may be extremely positive for their development as people but it can also be too damaging for their young brain, some will accept it while others won't.

Plus LGBT+ it's too controversial to appear on a child's show. Kids are too inoccent, they won't understand why there are so mixed reactions of their parents,their friend's parents and in general everyone's about something like this.

2.They Are Too Young To Have in General Information About Sexual Orienation.

Why I Disagree With Having LGBT+ Characters In Kids Shows

Sex is completely natural.

There is nothing wrong with it of course, but it should not be in children's shows because inorfming children about sex it's a parent's job.

None else's.

Every parent believe that the time to talk about sex is ideal at different ages, same goes with th talking about different sexualities.

3.They Won't Really Understand.

Why I Disagree With Having LGBT+ Characters In Kids Shows

Kids are extremely smart but they tend to believe that what they see on TV is the right thing, and growing up thinking that this is the way things are suppose to be...it's mistaken.

Some people that belong to LGBT+ in the past have explained that they had a problem seeing only straight couples on the TV shows because it made them feel unnatural.

Same will happen this time, but with opposites roles.

And that will bring no result.

However to end this,I do of course think that the kids as they get older should start being informed about different sexualities so they can start accepting that people might be different than the,, but only when they are ready to understand and realize that they don't HAVE to be something that they don't feel like it just because it exists.

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AngelicSin

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  • Hmm... I get what you're saying, but I don't whole completely agree.

    Am I saying we have to put a bunch of gay, bi, and lesbian characters in shows, along with story archs focusing on their sexuality? No. I don't think that at all. I agree, it would be a bit confusing. However, simply having a male character have a mild, cartoon crush on a character, or having a family with two mothers, I don't think is that difficult to explain or to comprehend as kids.

    I think the main problem is people assume kids care, and that if they see LGBT characters, they're going to lose their minds and become confused about their own sexualities. I, myself, met my gay cousin (who is much older than me) when I was only five, along with his husband. There was no lengthy discussion as to his sexuality, it was simply: "Such and such likes boys, some people are like that," and it didn't do any damage to me as a child.

    The other thing is, we allow our children to be parented too much by the media. We plop them in front of computers and in front of TV"s, force iPads in their hands, and just TRUST that everything they see will make sense or be PG. As a parent, if you don't want your kid to be exposed to LGBT material, then be aware of what media they're consuming. It's up to you to parent your own children; not the television.

    That's all just to say: I don't see it as a big deal, provided the show isn't totally sexuality centric.

    • The way you put it, I have to admit that I can't really disagree with what you are trying to say. At least with most of it. Maybe having some 'supportive characters' and not protagonists in TV shows being homosexual or bi-sexual might be actually helpful for them. If the whole process is done right and gently it might actually help them for the future. However, because sometimes people tend to over-do it, the thing that I don't like is the idea of forcing sexual orientation on them, we can teach them that being in love with the same sex (homosexuality) or not being in love with anyone ever (asexuality/aromantic) is fine when they are ready to understand it and not start questioning themselves. I just think that it should come naturally.

    • Yeah, the primary thing is that people aren't aggressive with it. If we want things to be normalized, then we have to present them the way most people would be presented with them in real life: like, seeing that gay couple hold hands on the elevator, or finding out your aunt remarried a woman whom she went to high school with. It doesn't need to be extremely hyper-sexualized or hyper-focused on sexuality.

    • Well, I agree with that because it doesn't force anything on them, it just teach them that people like these are normal and living around them.

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  • You going to get some crap for this one girl but I agree with you. Get me if they start being mean I got your back 😀

    Why I Disagree With Having LGBT+ Characters In Kids Shows

    • I do appreciate Disney showing disabilities though to children. I think it may help with exceptence

    • Aw thank you very much, I will! Yeah I appriciate that too

    • 😀😀😀

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  • You are right, but thats to assume its about education to begin with. Its all about recruitment for there social ideology and the fact children get brainwashed or confused because of it is the entire purpose because that sets them open to be manipulated further to support something that they wouldn't support in there right minds.

    You can see the modern day effects on the streets by all these brainwashed progressives that have no clue what they are talking about, can't hold and argument and as a result advocate for tyranny on the sole basis of being thought this by there college professors after a life long of being told that whats in school is correct and you should just recite what your told instead of critical thinking.

    This grasp and flaws actually extend way deeper into society then this simple example brings to light, and teaching kids critical thinking, monitoring what they are told and giving proper explanations against this nonsense is the only thing we can do about it aside from pressuring schools and the media not to make these shows.

    • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1UWuWvvPA3U

    • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqUShNoLx4s

    • I just believe that in young ages, they can't really understand it without making wrong assumptions as well. But that's my opinion.

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  • Great take!! Unfortunately most networks are concerned with being PC that if one doesn't jump on the bandwagon, they're regarded as anti gay and such.

    What were the results of your school expirement and how did you guys do the experiment and reach the conclusion?

    • Aww thank you Well, it showed that 40% of the kids that were exposed to LGBT+ didn't have any reaction, neither positive or negative. Their mind accepted it as something normal. However the rest 60% didn't react so well, they though that what we were saying to them and showing were 'wrong' or 'not real' as they said. They also made disgusted grimaces whenever we tried to explain them a little better.

    • By the way, the kids ages were 5-9

    • Interesting. I hate that my little cousin who's EIGHT has a kid jn her class who identifies as female but still has a penis

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  • hey, this is brave i commend that i actually had a similar convo last night re obvious placements in tv in shows well before the watershed which is nine at night here, a show at seven pm shows a gay male couple kissing sometimes, now i realise im in a gen of seeing change but my two teenagers are flooded with so many terms of sexuality and state of being when they are growing up it seems to cause such confusion more so in my younger daughter, im at a loss myself... xx

    • I've just remembered this twelve yr old girl why dont straight people have to come out like gay people do? her fifteen yr old brother said because thats the natural order of sexuality in nature...

  • BEST MYTAKE OF THE DAY!

    • And I don't care how many more are posted! ... lol

    • Lol awww

  • Great take as always! 💙 I completely agree. Sex and sexuality in general isn't a topic for kids. Maybe when they're 13+ which is when most kids discover what sex truly is and how it works and so on. Until then, please keep it off the children's access. Either way it's the parents choice.

    • Aww thank you

  • There's this weird conflation with LGBT people and sex, like somehow heterosexual relationships are inherently less sexual and more 'appropriate'. I think it is important because sexuality is something you're born with and for many kids they actually might realise they aren't straight at that age, which is great. I think kids are much smarter than you give them credit for being.

  • Good my take.
    Personaly is add that some people still believe it is wrong and not completely accepted by all.

    • Thank you

  • I disagree with your disagreement.

    1: Showing kids that LGBT people exist isn't the same as brainwashing or forcing them into anything. It's just teaching them about differences... and teaching kids about differences is important, because it also teaches acceptance. And that's something you really SHOULD make sure to teach kids while they're young.

    2: The idea that an LGBT relationship depicted is somehow more "adult" than a straight one is one I've heard before, and it's one I've never agreed with. Straight relationships are all over kids' entertainment, boy-meets-girl, loving parents who are married and so forth, without sex ever entering the equation. It's just as easy to have a same-sex romance without ever going into the sexual aspects about it. "Some boys fall in love with boys" is easy enough to grasp and doesn't bring sex into it at all.

    3: This argument would have made sense if it was an either/or thing when it came to depicting *either* LGBT *or* straight cisgender people on-screen... but that's not the case. For every LGBT pesron kids see on-screen, they'll still see MANY MORE straight cisgender ones. Seeing a gay couple on TV isn't going to make the kids thing that the ten straight couples they saw on TV that same week were somehow in the wrong.

    In my experience, kids are usually more accepting than adults are... they might dismiss something as "weird" if it's new and unusual to them, but for the most part they will accept that okay, this is a thing. Present them with, say, two women getting married... kids who have grown up with the "Marriage is between a man and a woman" thinking might laugh and think it's silly, or they might go "Huh? That's weird!" But overall, after the initial reaction most of these kids will accept it, and likely go off and do something else without giving the gay marriage another thought.

  • I mean, what's the level of straight sexuality that kids see anyway? Some Disney couple holding hands and staring into each other's eyes. I personally really doubt that if the same "romance" was shown and the couple were both of the same sex, it would somehow be damaging.
    Parenting is the key here, not whether or not two same-sex fictional characters hold hands or not.

    That said, transexuality that is "pushed" or normalized to kids has been shown to have "negative effects". But oh ho ho, surprise - that's normally the result of shitty parenting too.

    In conclusion, what I'm suggesting... Don't ban LGBT. Ban parents.

  • Great myTake, but a few of your arguments seem a little contradictory. Take number 2 for example. Being heterosexual is a sexual orientation itself. Many kid's shows and movies portray that dreamy relationship between a boy and a girl (like most of the disney princesses for example). Using the logic of this myTake, portraying any relationship could be considered "too mature", with the notion that children are too young to be exposed to information regarding sexual orientation. But overall, interesting myTake!

    • Thank you

  • Great Take!!! I Agree!!! Funny thing is had a banned books class and I was pro for this mainly because of the idea of kids getting teased in school, kids need to learn to be respectful but I think you would agree that it depends on age. Older kids can handle it much better than younger kids. But I think that in some cases parents at home may not always be the best to teach their children about this. But I think you are also talking about kids shows and not teachers in school because I think that it would be good at a certain age to teach kids in school about this

  • Agree : DDD

  • i HIGHLY disagree. we need more representations for kids so they dont grow up to be intolerant of people of lgbt+ or grow up feeling ashamed of who they are. you say there's nothing wrong with being gay/bi or whatever but then go on to say its something impure thatll steal their innocence? what?

    also what people forget is heterosexuality is a sexuality too. so they're only aloud to be exposed to heterosexuality? and the rest will confuse them? what about all the gay kids who grew up to literally only straight couples on tv? it's not as if we're cancelling out all heterosexuality representation jesus, just presenting more kinds of sexualities.

    eek sorry thats my trigger point lel.

  • I disagree for a couple reasons

    1. You can't stop the TV industry from not putting LGBTQ Characters in Kids Shows
    2. If you take all the LGBTQ characters away, why not the straight characters as well?
    3. We should teach kids that there are different sexualities. Also, each sexuality is fine and natural

    • I disagree, I think kids have better things to do first than care about sexuality.

  • Interesting but it would be fair to say that they will see LGBT people in real life say you live in an appartment block do you deny the existence of gay couple in 3A or lesbian daughter in 5c or Trans in 6B. I think the characters should be in the shows because it will help with things like seeing a PDA between a gay couple.
    As you say it is their formative years but they may get to school in their teens and kids may be experimenting or awakening to their sexuality. It would be a huge shock if it was them but it will be happening all around to them. Intolerance is often based in not knowing really what another person is like or not knowing what is happening to them. If I was a parent I would prefer my child to accept it, see it as normal and not go WTF at 12.

    • Of course they will cause this is life and we can't prevent that. Like I said I believe that they should start learn about it when their parents believe so and when they are ready to accept it.

  • I agree and I don't support the community. It seems like to me that the lbgt likes to pressure people into accepting it. And if not some are just yelled at being "homophobic" for having different interest and beliefs

  • I agree. Though the biggest issue I have - aside from normalising something that by definition isn't normal - is the fact that kids in puberty have enough issues learning and coming to terms about their sexuality. Adding LGBT to it just makes it worse.

    If you want people being respectful to others, teach them to be respectful to others and not force certain groups that are deemed more important down their throats.

  • social justice needs to stop

  • Kids should be playing with dinosaur dolls and care bears and shit, not getting their brains washed about the Motherland/Corporate Oligarchy/Lesbianism whatever

  • not saying I disagree with you but there has practically already been a few LGBT characters in kids show already, at least at a subliminal level. SpongeBob SquarePants for example, dont even know where to start with that one. also Tinky Winky from the Teletubbies, he sounds like a guy but always carries a purse and coincidentally he is colored purple which I think is a common color that represents the LGBT community

  • Great mytake! I share this opinion tbh

    • Thank youu

  • About 5% of all people are LGTB. Kids are bound to meet them. They'd better understand these are not the freaks some pastors describe.

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