Board Thread:Spoilers!/@comment-4877635-20130614170253/@comment-22525977-20131002231628

Levi.goodliff wrote: I kind of hope if they make a lgbt relationship/characters they make the relationship already accepted or gay relationships in general and have Emma like o.o i didnt know that you guys accept that or already have gay marriege and the fairlytale characters/people reply like we dont care we support love lor something not only (white) straight love ;p i just dont want them to make a big deal about the sexuality part like its something diffrend. It would be pretty awesome if the show used the multiverse format to explore sexism/homophobia/heterocentrism and how it's treated in various wherevers, contrasted against the reality of our world via Emma. Like, if the Land Without Color had Victorianesque attitudes, the FTR's general opinion on the subject fell in line with the kind of feudalist medieval-ish cultures it's been riffing on thus far, Wonderlanders did whatever the hell they want because it's a dreamworld where math and logical fallacies are much more important than sex, our world is what it is, et cetera. Neverland would either be pretty relaxed or else  really  disturbing, depending on what they chose to do with the way belief works there, and if they managed to get the rights to Oz they could examine what happens when you put people from feudal systems and our world in a place where women hold most of the power and nonheteronormative sexuality and gender identity are nonissues and completely normalized.

And before anyone says that would be too political or "inappropriate", this is a show that (a) deals very heavily in morality (warped though it may become at times), murder, child abuse, and rape, and (b) has a central conceit that is explicitly about love and how it effects people. Using the show to play with LGBTQIA people and how different fantasy cultures respond to them would not make it any less "family-friendly" than it already is. ChocolatEyes613 wrote: Yeah.... because Ariel and Eric do not have weird relationship, as it is. She is a fish, for goodness sake! 1. There is nothing "weird" about a transgender person entering a relationship with another person, nor is there anything "weird" about xir partner having zero problem with the fact that xe is transgender.

2. Interspecies romance is okay, but romances with trans* people aren't?

Though, regarding transgender Ariel: I think it might be equally effective the other way around, where Ariel is a cisgender female mermaid who wants to become human and Eric is transgendered and part of how they bond/fall in love is over their mutual understanding of how it is to identify as something they were not biologically born as.