Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-24386552-20140513185826/@comment-5281989-20140528022210

I feel like I would, as a child, have been much more grateful for other "life lessons" against relationships that this show is encouraging-- for instance the May-December relationship between Rumple and Belle. As a child/teenager especially, I could have done with a healthy dose of "you shouldn't date someone who is significantly older than you" as opposed to-- what? "you shouldn't date someone that's the same sex as you?" I understand that being from what is considered the Liberal Hippie State (three guesses where I'm from in the US), I often miss the objection to media presentation of gay couples-- even as a child when we pretended to marry each other, if we were the same sex one of us still represented the gender role that (for us) should have existed. And we turned out alright (I think). But, as was said above, to each his own.

I look forward, regardless, to fifty years from now when the subject of homosexual relationships will be regarded with the same tone as interracial ones-- note that no one cared that Mulan was Asian and attracted to Aurora, or that Neal was engaged to a black woman,or that the Agrabah-natives Cyrus and Sidney were head over heels for their respective white Alice and Regina (yes, I know Lana is actually Portuguese/Sicilian/American, but her character has white parents, so she's supposed to be white). It would be seen as ridiculous in today's society, though there was a time when such a mixture was painted as necessary to censure as gay couples are now.