Redstreak 6,651 Posted December 5, 2014 Share Posted December 5, 2014 Well I kept wondering when it would happen and it did! We got LGBT characters in a kids aimed cartoon!  Clarence recently had two men in a restaurant supposed to kiss on the mouth when meeting up but due to network restrictions, it became kisses on the cheek. However in tonight's episode Jeff Wins we meet the titular characters two moms!  Seen here holding hands, over the course of the episode the fact they are a lesbian couple is simply treated as a simple fact of life. Which is what you would expect someone for a kid who is talking to the parents of a long time friend.  Somehow they managed to get through the entire episode without engaging in some hardcore **** as some seem to fear showing LGBT characters must intail. You can't call this "Forced" when simply changing the genders of one character would have changed nothing at all.  To be perfectly honest, I have never seen Clarence before. And after watching this episode and getting a feel for what the show is like, I will probably never watch another. It really doesn't seem within my tastes. But I am excited about this regardless.  There are kids with gay and lesbian parents out there and this gives them a little bit of acknowledgement. Acknowledging lesbian and gay people exist at all is unfortunately a huge leap for Cartoon Network but it does give me hope. Hope that this will move forward so that LGBT kids can see representation of themselves not just in tertiary characters that we might see sporadically, but in one of the main characters of their favorite shows.  Is this the best representation? Maybe not but it isn't the worst and it is a start.  http://observationdeck.io9.com/cartoon-network-gets-on-the-gay-slippery-slope-1667067534  Even though I don't like this show, this is great Now I don't see any excuse for Adventure Time to not explicitly reference Marceline and Bonnibel's past Take a moment to think of just flexibility, love, and trust~ Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
amenART 429 Posted December 5, 2014 Share Posted December 5, 2014 good on them Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MyQueen 2,409 Posted December 5, 2014 Share Posted December 5, 2014 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Betty Who 62 Posted December 5, 2014 Share Posted December 5, 2014 http://observationdeck.io9.com/cartoon-network-gets-on-the-gay-slippery-slope-1667067534  Even though I don't like this show, this is great Now I don't see any excuse for Adventure Time to not explicitly reference Marceline and Bonnibel's past  This though, I wish they'd just stop dancing around and make it clear!   It's 2014, smh Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jojo Freud 653 Posted December 5, 2014 Share Posted December 5, 2014 Isn't disney also doing the same? Cant remember what the show was called :toofloppy: Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deleted4234 388 Posted December 5, 2014 Share Posted December 5, 2014 Isn't disney also doing the same? Cant remember what the show was called :toofloppy: "Good Luck Charlie" lol Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jojo Freud 653 Posted December 5, 2014 Share Posted December 5, 2014 "Good Luck Charlie" lol I only watch late night disney for the good like 90s and early 2000s shows  so yeh  Thats so raven is life Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Redstreak 6,651 Posted December 5, 2014 Author Share Posted December 5, 2014 Isn't disney also doing the same? Cant remember what the show was called :toofloppy: Yes but that was a live action show, this was animated. Take a moment to think of just flexibility, love, and trust~ Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
AIex 3,102 Posted December 5, 2014 Share Posted December 5, 2014 I only watch late night disney for the good like 90s and early 2000s shows  so yeh  Thats so raven is life Good Luck Charlie is the only late 2000s / 2010s show that is actually good on Disney nowadays. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
zack 15 Posted December 5, 2014 Share Posted December 5, 2014 It will always be two moms, never two dads. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SychosSoChic 9,995 Posted December 5, 2014 Share Posted December 5, 2014 It will always be two moms, never two dads. Â Baby steps. Life ain't Hollywood for any one of us. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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