User blog comment:Curious Poker Chip/I Am Done./@comment-32202721-20180912180108

First, let me just say that I appreciate your willingness to accept the show's push to include more LGBT characters. I'm not going to accuse you of hating gay people, and I'm not going to disparage you for being a Christian. (Lest you forget, I myself am Jewish.) However, I do think your sentiments towards LGBT activism and representation are... misguided, for lack of a better word.

For one thing, "toxic" is a pretty strong word to describe a shipping community. Granted, I'm aware that there are some Samuna shippers who harass and bully people who prefer other ships, but you'll find people like that in any shipping community (particularly on Tumblr). What I'm more concerned about is your vocal distaste for the "authoritarians" who "shove LGBT-related stuff down people's throats."

Simply put, what you consider to be "authoritarian" - gay pride - is really just a grandiose attempt at upending the status quo, in which gay people are forced to hide who they are while heterosexuality is openly celebrated. Whether you realize it or not, you're holding gay couples to a standard that no straight couple has to uphold. How many times have you spoken openly about how hot you think Leni is? I mean, geez, it's okay to be straight, but do you have to be so in-your-face about it?

And it's not just you; these standards pervade our society. We live in a world where Love is Strange gets an R-rating for showing two men kissing and sharing a bed, fully clothed (and a few curse words, I guess), and yet a grisly horror film like Drag Me to Hell gets rated PG-13.

So when The Loud House revealed that there's a bisexual in the main cast, a lot of people got excited. It was a sign that we were entering a new era: one where a gay couple can openly express their love without the moral guardians coming in and deeming their identities "inappropriate" for younger audiences. One where two men cuddling isn't seen as more family-unfriendly than an old woman getting her head caved in and having her eyeballs and guts pop out. One where we're willing to teach our kids that gay people are... well, people.