Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-1255374-20151024145123/@comment-995426-20151101195712

Tarrlok&#039;s the REAL Hero wrote: I just watched the episode and I'm done with this TMNT series. That was the worst peice of romance I've seen in a while (I skipped the episodes with Ranet so I didn't see her and Mikey). Also, why didn't they just make Raph a women in this version! (since they can't put a gay character in the show) He's clearly more like a woman than a man. Last, why the h*ll would they put a masochist in a TV-Y7 show? Just why?

I'm off to read Amazing Adventures. So it sounds like I was right to skip this episode. XD

But, in 2015, you'd think they still wouldn't be so allergic to having openly gay characters in TV shows. Openly gay people are married. Openly gay people are raising families. Openly gay people have state holidays in California and are role models. It took until the early 1990s for a majority of Americans to approve of interracial relationships, but the majority approval of gay relationships is already here. Children need positive, G-rated openly gay role models in their popular entertainment, so they understand all the more that gay people are like everyone else.