so a lot of people (usually religious homophobes) use the argument “kids don’t need to know about gay people, introducing gay characters into kids’ tv etc is inappropriate because they don’t need to know about sexuality at such a young age”.
this argument would totally hold up except that there are straight relationships in ALMOST EVERYTHING KIDS WATCH. in cartoons, girls like boys and boys like girls. in Disney films, it’s men and women falling in love and getting married. and it’s not about SEXUALITY, it’s about RELATIONSHIPS. when kids see a Disney princess and prince getting married, they don’t think it’s about sex, they think it’s about LOVE. they’d think the exact same if they saw two men getting married, or two women.
plus, y’know, if kids are introduced from a young age to the idea that some people are gay and that’s just how the world is, they’re not going to be homophobic. kids find the idea of gay people VERY EASY to accept, because it’s not a difficult concept. and when they grow up they’re going to be like “hey, this is just how life works, no need to be a dick about any of it!”. even if you think that being gay is awful and unnatural, you can’t deny that it EXISTS. by teaching kids that it’s wrong, literally all you’re doing is inspiring hate, because you KNOW you’re never going to rid the world of gay people, you’re just going to nurture a lovely, hateful little homophobe. pretty sure that most religions are quite strongly against spreading hate.
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There’s going to come a day when we’ve all grown up, had a career, maybe got married and had kids, when were all going about our daily routine. Maybe you’re driving to work with the car radio on, or you’re making dinner with the tv on in the lounge. Life as usual, and then we hear a name. It’s the name of the person you had a blog dedicated to when you were 16. The person you had posters of up on your bedroom wall, or as your desktop background. The person off that show you used to watch every week, as soon as it came out, or that band you used to love. The person from the cast of a movie that changed your life, or the character who you scrolled through page after page of fanfiction of. You haven’t heard that name in a long time, and it brings everything back. And then the name is followed by three words you thought you’d never hear. Has Passed Away. And then you put down the potato peeler and lean back against your kitchen bench, or you pull over to the side of the road, and tears are streaming down your face. And all over the world, there are people who used to be just like you, with tears marking their cheeks and sobs forcing their way out of their throat, because they remember. Because fandoms never really die out. We never really move on. We never really forget.
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Ultimate suffering:
Knowing that you now own episodes of Merlin that star Gwaine, but wanting to re-watch the series in order, and only being up to the third episode of season 2…
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She didn’t mean James Potter.
She meant Severus Snape.
(first quote: Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Chapter Two: A Peck of Owls; second quote: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Chapter Thirty-Three: The Prince’s Tale)
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