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adjl posted...

Protip: If your position is based on something vague, undefinable, and impossible to measure, and somebody asks you if you consider your position to be defensible, the answer is "no."

Haha, maybe. But I am glad you took up the task. There's hope for at least someone in this crazy world. And honestly I can come up with a better argument, but there's no point if I get banned for it, is there?
adjl posted...

That's you trying to reconcile the cognitive dissonance between the intellectual realization that there's nothing wrong with homosexuality, and a homophobic gut reaction that says it must be wrong to show gays to children.

No there's something inherently wrong with it. Quantifying it is the issue since I've never been against gays. Things like injecting gays into children's shows have taught me to gradually start hating them. I'd probably be better if all I did was think about how much I hate gays from day one. However, I still really don't hate them that much.
adjl posted...

Furthermore, generational culture transfer happens on a far, far greater scale than just between parents and their children. It happens in schools, it happens between adults and their friends'/families' children, it happens through the media... The notion that somebody not having kids means they can't pass on their culture is very obviously nonsense.

Maybe not having children is the problem with it. Maybe attempting to pass gay culture down to not your children through children's media is part of my problem with this situation.
adjl posted...

Because what we experience as "normal" during our formative years has a huge impact on what we consider to be acceptable as adults. Media is far from being the only influence there, obviously, but it is a major one. The presence of LGBTQ characters in children's media goes a long way toward normalizing it and guarding against homophobic biases that they might otherwise grow into.

What gay cartoons did you watch as a child and how unacceptable do you believe yourself to be?
What advantage is there to normalizing homosexuality? Why should something that is statistically not normal be normalized in the first place and especially to children? Oh, you've already answered that question above though. It's important so children don't think being gay is abnormal, which is it. Essentially it's important indoctrination to you and that's why adults should inject homosexuality into children's media.