@wdeleon  

 

 
But seriously, I agree. If kids can get shown straight couples, what’s really the matter with gay ones? There’s not that much difference, it’s all love.

@Background Pony #62DB  
The problem with that logic is that it’s deliberately used in a completely hypocritical way by the people pushing it. There’s always a conservative outcry of, “Kids are too young! They shouldn’t be told about gay people until they’re older and they can understand!”
 
But in the meantime, while those same kids are “too young,” they’re nonetheless absorbing the implicit bias, usually from the very environment composed of those same people crying about how we can’t tell kids about ‘the gays’ until they’re older, that anything LGBT == bad/evil/sick/gross/etc.
 
It’s not that they really think kids can’t be exposed to LGBT concepts. It’s that they want to get in early to instill their own highly negative view, before there’s a chance for any balanced, fair, or positive LGBT representation to counter it.
 
Kids need to be exposed to LGBT concepts in sympathetic, personalizing, representative ways, because the misrepresentation, myths, and slurs our culture is full of sure as hell aren’t going to play by the same rule and also wait.

Very neat

@TexasUberAlles  
It’s just a headcanon that also caught on as a meme since it makes certain people irrationally angry

@Backgroundpony  
eh, that’s just what I’ve heard

@RainbowBacon  
If it is not in the scource material it is not canon, or do you want people interfereing with your books/movies 10 years from now because they suddenly think oh that would be good to include.

@TexasUberAlles  
I believe it’s because it was confirmed to be canon recently?  
Though I’m not 100% sure about that.

I dunno why there’s a sudden great and powerful surge of Trans Trixie art, but I heartily approve of all the douchey downvoters getting made super mad about it.

Trixie is trans.

@Mcsplosion  
i will leave it there. cuz no matter how full in respect my comment could be, it will insult someone.

@Background Pony #62DB  
I don’t see how the topic of transgender themes would be too inappropriate for the demographic MLP:FIM is going for. In fact, I think it’s more important they understand it earlier so if a child ends up later identifying as transgender, they’re met with more understanding and support from their peers, as well as being able to recognize it themselves, avoiding the internal conflict many transgender people start to go through as they begin to realize how they really want to express themselves.

@Mcsplosion  
I think they would not fully understand as you do. friendship? thats good. these themes? when they are older and can understand.

@Background Pony #62DB  
Are you saying children shouldn’t be made aware of LGBT people?

@Background Pony #62DB  
true

@Background Pony #62DB  
Knuckles!!!

anytime someone calls attention to the breaking of gender roles, it ultimately undermines the concept of gender equality by implying that this is an exception and not the status quo.

@Backgroundpony  
Ah gotcha

@RainbowBacon  
A Season 1 headcanon. So pretty old.

Its a show for kids, would they know better?

@Backgroundpony  
Really? I never knew that

(now… only one of the oldest popular headcanons in the fandom)