The Rainbow Connection [LGBTS Club] Page 100

Started by Shining Raichu May 22nd, 2011 5:52 AM
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I, for one, firmly believe Bert and Ernie are gay. Personally, I'm cool with it. My family on the other hand...
My mom's gaydar certainly does go off more the more she sees Rainbow Dash episodes.
Is it just me or does everyone think Rainbow Dash is a lesbian? A lot of my friends think she is, and that's the reason why my sister doesn't let her kids watch My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic. It's certainly ridiculous. SHE'S A FREAKIN' TOMBOY! Although there's that one wingboner incident...

Personally, I'm fine with a kids' cartoon show having homosexual characters. As long as the romance is done as most kids' shows handle that, I could honestly care less.
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It kind of reminds me of a behind-the-scenes interview thing I watched about Grey's Anatomy one time. There is a lesbian couple on that show, and basically they apparently went to GLAAD and asked about the best way to approach such a relationship on a TV show, and they replied "treat it like you would treat any other relationship on the show" and that's exactly what they did. Callie and Arizona are just a couple. They met the same way everybody else does and they had the same fights; and barely anybody even batted an eyelid about the whole thing. It wasn't until Callie's parents came into the picture and did the whole "RAWR YOU CANT BE A LESBIAN LETS PRAY AWAY THE GAY" thing that you even remembered they were a same-sex couple. It was just so normal.

I think that's the way to approach it on children's television too. If you make a big deal about it like "Hey kids, we're two men and we are in love the same way your Mommy and Daddy are in love, and that's OK" - then that really is forcing something down their throat - but if you just have two men in a romance going about it the same way a man and a woman would and don't say a word about it, then it just normalises it for them. It puts it into their range of experience and knowledge without them even realising it's happening and then when they grow up and start socialising with other people, sexuality really isn't a big deal.
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Is it just me or does everyone think Rainbow Dash is a lesbian? A lot of my friends think she is, and that's the reason why my sister doesn't let her kids watch My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic.
Really?

Rainbow Dash's sexuality, whatever it may be, is completely irrelevant to the show. So, really, your sister is not letting her kids watch the show because there is a confident female character in it.

We certainly wouldn't want our female kids to grow up as confident, now would we? That would be so terrible!

Anyway, that's absurd to begin with. As I said Rainbow Dash's sexuality is never shown and is never even relevant to anything. So I imagine your sister must be one of those crazy people who think that sexuality is passed on like a disease, and not just passed on by seeing homosexual acts, but by just being exposed to a character that stereotypically acts somewhat like a homosexual is portrayed to act.

How can anybody think such ridiculous things?

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I don't really have a problem with that it's like in kid's shows, it's the way it's in, it's sort of mocked. I'm just butting in this convo so I don't know if what I'm saying makes sense in regards to the topic hahah but I saw the pics and wanted to say it anyway.
Yeah, I think I know what you mean, the way that shows can bring in stereotypical or campy 'gay' things and treat it as ridiculous or crazy.

What I'm interested to know is whether it's ever explicitly stated that that Teletubby is male. Because it seems to me that could just be a girl carrying a purse. :/
It's not a purse, it's a bag. Gosh. No, really. I think that was one of the defenses back when this was first brought up. As far as I know teletubbies are like muppets in that they have no sexuality (or even gender?) since it's for kids so young they can't even stand up on their own.

How can anybody think such ridiculous things?
Like I said, some people have finally realized that there are gay people in the world of media so they have this half-baked idea that there is gayness in pop culture so they use their half-baked understanding of how to see it.
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So I imagine your sister must be one of those crazy people who think that sexuality is passed on like a disease, and not just passed on by seeing homosexual acts

I never knew that you had to witness these acts to be who we are. Kind of ignorant to say that no?

I knew I was a lesbian long before I saw such acts, even before my son was born. So what accounts for me being lesbian if I never saw homosexual acts?

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Also just to stat I do not wish to cause any arguments. I just disagree with what was said.

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Ah her
I've never gotten any lesbian signals from Rainbow Dash. She's just cool.

Girls can't be cool without being gay?
My mom's gaydar isn't based on coolness. Her gaydar is expertly crafted by our gay friends. Seriously though it is stupid when people associate tomboys with lesbians. Even Lauren Frost said that was stupid and offensive. According to my mom, Rainbow Dash gives off a real lesbian vibe, whether that's on purpose or not we both agree that's awesome.
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I never knew that you had to witness these acts to be who we are. Kind of ignorant to say that no?
I think Envy may have just badly worded what she was trying to say lol
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I never knew that you had to witness these acts to be who we are. Kind of ignorant to say that no?

I knew I was a lesbian long before I saw such acts, even before my son was born. So what accounts for me being lesbian if I never saw homosexual acts?
No, that's not what I meant.

I don't in any remote way believe that our sexuality is a choice. I was stating that from the view of how the anti-homosexual people think. They think that homosexuality is a choice and even that it can come from seeing others be homosexual.

So I was speaking from that assumption, saying that now not only do they think that it can be passed on by just seeing somebody else be homosexual, but, even more absurdly, they think it can be passed on by seeing somebody/character portraying behavior that is stereotyped as being homosexual.

(I'm sorry, but going back and reading my post I don't even see how I worded that badly... I clearly wasn't speaking my own beliefs there.)

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OK I'm sorry but you guys are getting MLP all over my beautiful thread.

Let's change the topic, shall we?


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OK I'm sorry but you guys are getting MLP all over my beautiful thread.

Let's change the topic, shall we?


^ That is a link. You'd be surprised how often people don't pick up on that.
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I have a feeling that that experiment would put me at like maybe 50/50 because I am absolutely the worst at picking out people based on their sexuality. It makes it awkward sometimes because while other people will just pick up on it, I won't and they have to spell it out and stuff, lol. :(


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OK I'm sorry but you guys are getting MLP all over my beautiful thread.

Let's change the topic, shall we?


^ That is a link. You'd be surprised how often people don't pick up on that.
MLP is amazing Andy. You must watch it.
I've never met any gay people irl, so I don't know if I have a good gaydar or not... though it'd be pretty useful if I did. haha



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I've met plenty of gay people. Usually if it's a guy, they mention their sexuality offhand after I've developed a crush on them. It used to be the biggest problem for me hahaha.


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I think the fact that you think you've never met any gay people in real life means that your gaydar is pretty terrible :P
No, I've just never met any... I can tell, I promise. >.>

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Hah, gaydar.

That's really weird! I can't tell if anybody's gay or not, but that's probably because I live in a pretty homophobic town (because Asians.)...but I really want to "meet mah people", and have someone who I can talk to daily and get me through some hard parts about the "coming out" part.

But I think I would have a very bad gaydar if I knew there were lots of gay people around nonetheless.

Margaret Cho, anyone?
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Well droomph, that's pretty much exactly what we're here for! If you need any help with coming out or any other part of being gay and you can't find it in your offline life, then we are "your people" XD
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Ah yes, but I don't know where to start to do that...

I swear no one in a thirty-mile radius from my house is gay, and most of them are homophobic. That's kinda weird...

Oh werl wassup gaaaiz how's it doing

So what's with the "pink thongs and assless chaps and those chest chains oh my" gay people? What are all your thoughts on those people? Because I know you people here aren't flamboyant (because POKÉMON, come on you know that's true).

And if you are one of those people who like to wear pink panties, I'm very sorry. :( :apologetic mochi:
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That's really weird! I can't tell if anybody's gay or not, but that's probably because I live in a pretty homophobic town (because Asians.)...but I really want to "meet mah people", and have someone who I can talk to daily and get me through some hard parts about the "coming out" part.
I have the world's worst gaydar. We were playing a sharade type of game in theatre back in high school, and this guy started prancing around and we were shouting our guesses and I said "gay model" and he flipped me off. The guy next to me says "you know he's really gay, right?" lol And I felt so bad. :( I've always been bad at following stereotypes irl though, so I guess that might be more of a good thing than bad thing? haha

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I have the world's worst gaydar. We were playing a sharade type of game in theatre back in high school, and this guy started prancing around and we were shouting our guesses and I said "gay model" and he flipped me off. The guy next to me says "you know he's really gay, right?" lol And I felt so bad. :( I've always been bad at following stereotypes irl though, so I guess that might be more of a good thing than bad thing? haha
Haha we could start a club ^^

It's just like how once a gay pastor came to our Winter Retreat. I was like, "HE's gay?" until he showed us the...questionable...pictures on the screen when he was giving his sermon and stuff. Ever heard of Christopher Yuan

Is it psychological? It must be genetic. Psychological? Genetic. Psychology? Genes.

Hm...
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