Should kids & family movies have gay characters?

Should kids & family movies have gay characters? Mar 10, 2017 14:14:31 GMT

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Post by THawk on Mar 10, 2017 14:14:31 GMT

Mar 10, 2017 13:01:32 GMT @graham said:

Mar 10, 2017 2:55:28 GMT @gottaluvafriend said:

Explain.

Not sure what needs explanation there. You're going to have characters in your movie. I don't see why some of them shouldn't be gay. There's nothing at all wrong with being gay, so why not have gay characters?

What I am saying is that when I think about the sentence "There should be no gay characters in kids and family movies because..." then I can't think of any reasonable and honest way to complete that sentence.

To my mind it's no different from asking whether there should be female characters, or non-white characters, or tall characters, or short characters, or brave characters, or characters with curly hair, or disabled characters, or... well, any other kind of character.

Does that explain it to you?

Because whatever your stances on gay people are, it is a highly divisive issue in society that should not be paraded around such movies.

Same goes with hundreds of other things. There are hundreds of types of people, from radical anti-meat activists etc. that I fully support and find no problem with at all - but certainly should not be in such films, because that is not the place for it. Yes moral messages should always be a part of movies, children movies as well, but there is a difference between largely universally accepted messages and clear divisive lines in society.

And please don't start with the nonsense "oh but they are just showing gay people, not bringing politics into it" because it is one the most ridiculous arguments to possibly make.