Board Thread:News and Announcements/@comment-25148498-20141031183601/@comment-18396318-20141107040511

ChishioKunrin wrote: There's gonna be some LGBT rep. A lot of kids shows don't have that for fear that "non-hetero characters are too grown up for kids to understand." Psh. Kids understand more than we think they do, and they appreciate representation more than we think.

We can't just keep making kids shows that pretend that everybody is white, heterosexual, and has a fairly functional family that has both parents who are pretty content or happy in their marriage. Here's the thing about kids: you can put some more mature stuff in, and they won't notice. Older audiences will appreciate it, and younger ones will ignore it. With that said, children absolutely do not understand sexuality in the slightest, and there's really no way to explain it to them without explaining sex.