Board Thread:News and Announcements/@comment-25148498-20141031183601/@comment-4010415-20141107184515

Kyvos wrote: 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.

There have been children who have understood homosexuality because they understand that love is love and you don't really have control over who you fall in love with. Many children have the capacity to be understanding about the fact that not everybody falls in love with the opposite sex. That's pretty much what I meant.

And yeah, I definitely agree with you. Every kid who watches volume 2 is going to ignore Glynda saying Ironwood acts like everything is a competition of measuring dicks. Why? Because they don't know or understand what she was about to say, and thus, they'll just drop it.

Hell, My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic has jokes and references for teens and adults that many children won't get, and it makes it so much more possible for an entire family to sit down and watch it together.