Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-1650307-20170727054156/@comment-1650307-20170729185909

I am just curious. Does anybody know if making Clyde's parents a same-sex couple or even making Luna bi was Chris Savino's original intention or if it was something that was a studio mandate by Nickelodeon? Maybe it was Savino's intention for Luna because of her design. Not trying to perpetuate the stereotype, but she does have shorter hair and has a free-spirited attitude, so I can buy that maybe it was Savino's intention to make Luna bi.

While Howard and Harold are portrayed as a typical couple and I do have to give them credit for that, I do not know if they are really amazing characters because they are only in like five episodes.

I think a lot of people forget the fact that this show is shown by people on a worldwide scale. People all over the world are watching the show, and some of them in countries where that sort of thing is more frowned upon than others. Not trying to sound awful, just stating the truth. There are also a lot of people in the United States and Canada who have a strong Christian faith who may not like that sort of thing either, myself included. Again not trying to sound bigoted. I like the people. I like Luna. I do not like the fact that she likes girls. It's like my stance on smoking. I like the people, I do not like the fact that they smoke. Please do not send me hate mail because I got enough of that the weekend after "L is for Love" was released.

I feel that a lot of people, including the people who work on The Loud House, forget that. Sure they praise the decision to include her and even though IMO this doesn't really add anything to her character, I am happy that people in the LGBT community have a primary character to latch onto. Who am I do deny that? I latch onto CJ because I have autism. It's just more that people especially nowadays are so focused on the fact that they can do it, that they never think of whether or not they should do it. Kinda like Jurassic Park.

So yeah I do not like it and probably never will. I won't say that you personally cannot be happy for them including it in the show, I just think it is a sensitive issue that I think should not be in a cartoon for kids. Cartoons for general audiences like The Simpsons, I don't care. But when you are intending to make a show for kids, kids you are simple-minded and who I bet you dollars to doughnuts don't even give a flying flip about the nitty-gritty of what a character's sexual preference is. I never... NEVER even thought of that when I was a kid, and I bet most kids nowadays don't think about it either.

Just because you can do it, doesn't mean that you should do it.