Pretty sure my daughter was raised on worse in Buffy. And I'm glad of it.
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DebLovesBeccy — 9 years ago(November 18, 2016 03:05 AM)
Considering it was GLAAD who pointed out only a few years ago 69 percent of American TV shows were full of gay slurs and gay jokes with good examples from a lot of popular TV shows and TV has a LONG history of pushing the anti-gay agenda down our throats I sure don't see you complaining about your children seeing them but when a TV show paints two women (who we don't even know are homosexual or bisexual) in a positive light you claim it is gay propaganda??? If you read the Supergirl comic books of the past 20 years Supergirl (Kara and Linda) were strong, aggressive and edgy female characters who were more powerful than Superman but like many of the superhero shows on TV at the moment we have watered down versions of female superheroes (Black Canary being a great example) that heavily rely on male characters to help them 'cause we can't have them written the way they are in comic books or we will have sexist guys crying emasculation like they did over Wonder Woman in the 70s.
Fun Fact of the Day: Debbie loves cute animals and Beccy and her have
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gmeadows62 — 9 years ago(November 19, 2016 08:55 AM)
Yes, it sucks the liberal agenda is so obvious in this show. You'll need to explain to your daughter the difference between real life and tv. I'm sure you are a good mom. I wish you all the luck. This show has gotten cheesy and pushing their opinion. It bums me out, but I just quit it. Not worth the hour of my life.
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Totemkauf — 9 years ago(November 19, 2016 11:11 AM)
used to be a show to watch with your kids "cause you didn't have to parent them"
Don't be worried your child might think all tough women are gay , teach them it's not the case.
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Bermudabeachbum2005 — 9 years ago(November 21, 2016 10:57 AM)
I would think the little girl would already know that the show is different from real life in that it has a girl flying in the air. Maybe she should stick with explaining that instead of trying to deny there are lesbians in the real world.
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Lancer01 — 9 years ago(November 21, 2016 03:05 PM)
I can't let my daugther watch this anymore. And it's not like i"m some bible thumper or ultra right wing conservative. When it was on CBS it was more fun. It's a comic book character, it should be fun.
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skyhawk0 — 9 years ago(November 29, 2016 08:41 PM)
I have to wonder where you get the idea that comics characters "should be fun". Comics are an entire form and should run the gamut. And they do.
The only reason there's an idea of the form as being for kids is the censorship of the US Senate during the Kefauver hearings, which also came down on presenting a black man as an astronaut. That mindset got left behind in the 70s and it amazes me that there are people who still buy into it.
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ravmeltt — 9 years ago(November 21, 2016 05:28 PM)
OP I see you have more than 3 pages of comments and I would expect that. I'm sure most disagree with you because there are a lot of gay supporters on this IMDB board and as soon as someone says something they don't like, they pounce on you.
Anyhow I came here to post too, because I'm very disappointed in Alex's story line. I really liked and admired her. As you said, she was one of the strong women. She was also very career minded. Imagine she actually stayed home from work to mope. All of a sudden she's gay. She's running down Maggie like a little schoolgirl with a schoolgirl crush. I hate the story line and I hate how they've ruined Alex. She came out. Why. She had feelings for Maggie but not because she was born gay, but because she had the hots for a beautiful lesbian.
The writers feel they have to put a gay story line in everything, and I'm sick of it. I do like Maggie, and I'm glad she didn't fall for Alex and go all mooshy over her. I like that she wants to just be friends.
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Cosima324 — 9 years ago(November 26, 2016 01:00 PM)
Well- watch the episode again. She expressed feelings from high school for a female friend. So- she's not suddenly interested in women only because of Maggie. The situation with Maggie served as a catalyst for her to examine herself once and for all and find the courage to admit it and come out. Psssst yah, people are "born gay", it just takes time to realize it because society is so completely heteronormative and it takes courage to come out due to all of the hateful people in the world who are anti gay.
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LithMaethor — 9 years ago(November 26, 2016 01:25 PM)
She expressed feelings from high school for a female friend.
Technically, that's a mashup of two tropes:
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/RememberTheNewGuy
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SuddenlySexuality
Definitely not the mark of competent writing.
You're suffering from delusions of adequacy.
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Totemkauf — 9 years ago(November 26, 2016 02:42 PM)
She still is tough, they even had her stand up to Maggie and really make sure she realized what she did and how it affected her, and also showed that she'd mature enough to forgive and not burn the bridge.
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ravmeltt — 9 years ago(December 12, 2016 07:52 PM)
No way in hell I will let my kids watch this thing. This pro-homosexual agenda stuff has gone too far. It does no one any good.
Jayhawk I so agree with you. I'm done with this show. I really was one of the faithful ones who was watching it even when it wasn't getting great ratings. I stuck with it. Now that it seemed to have perked back up, they bring in this pro-homosexual agenda as you say. At the last episode when Maggie came back to Alex's house and talked to her and they were about to kiss, I changed the channel. I'm done. That's one show that is off my list when it returns in the new year.
Another show that had started off so great was This is Us. So clean and nice.
I was really liking it. Would you believe that they've now turned that old black man - the father - into a caricature of a gay man? Like anyone would believe he's gay.
And now the show has gotten so many Golden Globe nominations. I wonder if it would have gotten that if there wasn't a gay story arc.
That's the next one I might be cutting off my must-watch list when it returns next year. I'm sick of these writers that start off a show with straight characters and then mid-stream or close to the end, changing the trend of the show. Now if they had started off like that I might have understood and said, ah well, and maybe continue watching. But when they do this turnaround, it really annoys me. So bye bye Supergirl, and if This is Us continues down the same trend, bye bye for me to that too.
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pcull1016 — 9 years ago(December 16, 2016 08:07 PM)
I guess you and Jayhawk would both be the kind of parents who would disown their children if they were to ever come out as gay/lesbian, bisexual, or transgender - wouldn't you?
Denial isn't a river in Egypt.
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Jayhawk777 — 9 years ago(January 10, 2017 05:29 PM)
That's the thing, if you raise your kids right they will never choose that path. If you can't see that it IS a choice then you should NOT be allowed to be a parent. My kids are being raised correctly with love AND discipline.
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DebLovesBeccy — 9 years ago(January 11, 2017 09:46 PM)
In other words he supports child abuse and will most likely abandon his children if they turn out to be homosexual the same way mine did. People like him aren't fit to be parents and could very well lose their children soon under new laws here in Australia 'cause abusing your children for being homosexual and forcing them to be heterosexual could finally be officially recognised as a form of child abuse.
A note to homophobes: Don't hate me because of my sexualityHate me because you don't have the guts to accept yours