"Nicole Maines Joins ‘Supergirl’ As TV’s First Transgender Superhero"

Aug 10, 2018 11:50:55 GMT @deblovesbeccy said:

Jul 31, 2018 13:33:47 GMT dazz said:

I think every generation needs it is the thing and not needs just gay or lesbian, bi or what have you characters but those coming out stories, we had them in the 90's with shows like Dawnsons Creek, Buffy and that but that was 20 years ago, I think what some of us don't think about is not only should gay characters be on shows but especially if your audience skews younger you need coming out stories, having gay characters is great but I don't know how well just having already established gay men or lesbian ladies helps with people who have yet to come to term with who they are.

So long as they don't make a joke out of the character I think it will be fine, just don't expect high calibre storytelling, this is Supergirl afterall. 

I completely agree with you here Dazz and a lot of people who are against LGBT representation don’t actually realise just how important it is to have these characters appearing in positive roles in movies and TV shows or they realise it but like the homophobes that ruined the ‘Supergirl’ IMDB board they didn’t want us having any LGBT characters at all ‘cause of their hatred for us. It was extremely ironic how some of them were trying to make out we don’t face any discrimination but they used the Alex and Maggie relationship to launch an attack on all of us and spread hate everywhere and when they say we don’t need LGBT representation in movies and TV shows their behaviour shows the opposite and it is young people who need it most of all ‘cause many of them have to deal with people like that on a day to day basis on the internet and some of them take their own lives ‘cause they can’t handle the bullying and discrimination they face. Not to mention some of them still have to put up with having homophobic parents like Beccy and I did who will never accept them for who they really are and it is sad that still happens now but having characters in movies and TV shows shows those children there are other LGBT people out there and they are there is nothing wrong with them. 

The main problem with homophobia and transphobia in my opinion is we have far less homophobes and transphobes than we had before but the ones that we have remaining have become more vocal than they were before and are using the anonymity of the internet to air their hate everywhere and attack us and it is sadly the same with racists online and some comment sections of articles about movies with people of colour as leads look like they are a KKK meeting with the amount of hate they are writing. 

I think the issue is people just don't get things for the most part unless they have experienced it, and they assume progress means we fixed everything, and we haven't, equality isn't a quick fix it's an ongoing process, were also not so far removed from the old guard to where those old fashioned and idiotic thinking people are no longer around.

Also the idea that I as a straight guy because I don't see the flagrant homophobia or transphobia shown to people of the LGBT community by admittedly a now sizeably smaller group of intolerant fuck knuckles is silly, because I am not part of either of those communities, but just because I don't see it doesn't mean it doesn't happen, also just because it happens less doesn't mean it's gone away entirely, and it's a case of for some people they can go through life being gay, lesbian or transgender and not have to endure that crap, but there are other people who all they get is bombarded with that shit, which as is sadly clear has been the case for you, even though that's just not fair on a karma level because you are such a nice person.

God people being fuckheads really pisses me off.