bridgetvoid wrote:Dave Zero1 wrote:bridgetvoid wrote:
ok so you went from straight up homophobic to passive homophobia by implying it is a choice. it's still a while lot of no honestly.
no I didn't
yeah you kind of did. i mean you thought it was cute or funny to have a lesbian couple adopt a bunch of girls and essentially condition them to be lesbians because somehow there is humor in that sort of abuse (which is problematic since this hypothetical situation was literally used to deny people the right for same sex marriage for years - though to be clear it would be just as gross if it was a straight couple forcing a gay kid to be straight for laughs because hey, abuse isn't funny) and then you changed it to "lesbianism is a choice" which it totally isn't. i don't know what you're knowledge is of queer culture, though based on what i've read in this comic it seems to be pretty lacking.
just because you caved to a few complaints and tried to retconn the text to make it less offensive doesn't really erase the fact that you were setting this storyline to go down a pretty sketchy path irt to gay parents forcing gayness on a kid, and you've only accomplished making it awkward with the new forced dialogue. just because -you- say that -you- didn't hurt people with what you wrote doesn't mean you didn't.
There are multiple interpretations. Why do you automatically assume that the ones that upsets you is the "intended" one? We literally haven't even met Lacy's parents yet, the only thing we know about them is they apparently don't want their daughter hooking up with a guy. That in itself isn't even being played for humor so much as Lacy's ignorance is(which is less about the parents and more about Lacy's own ditzness... or the schools failure) Lacy has previously shown attraction towards females(or rather, due to her limited screentime, Triana) so... is it really "brainwashing"? As for Teddy. We can't really say for certain yet. It could just be ah.... curiosity(of multiple kinds) or something else.
And why exactly does ONE pair of gay parents represent gay parents everywhere? Why is THIS example supposedly Dave going "This is how they all act?"
And yet... apparently you've nothing to say to the single father who is NOT their for his children? (Not to mention the sheer unlikelyhood of a male getting solo custody)
I'm sorry if you personally feel hurt, but maybe you shouldn't attempt to speak for anyone else. And maybe you shouldn't automatically assume the worst case scenario is what is actually going on. Instead of going "I'm mad, I'm going to complain", think. "Was was the intention of this?" "If negative, was this deliberate?"
I'd like to consider myself a cautious person, and I still don't see the homophobia present.