User blog comment:Roxas82/For those who say "iCarly is a kid's show" to disprove Cam/@comment-3059315-20101121153510/@comment-3059315-20101122211615

@Alicia123 Well, you do make a good point that being gay does come with problems (if you're talking about being bullied and such, because that's definitely a problem), but I still think things might benefit from having gay couples on shows kids watch.

Let's just say there was a kid who would decide in the future that they were gay, but they didn't know it yet. If all they had ever heard in real life and seen on TV told them that being gay was wrong, then accepting the fact that they were gay would be much harder on them than it would be if it became a more accepted thing.

As it is, accepting gay people as normal people just like everyone else is very difficult for many people. If media started showing gays in a normal, positive way, it could really change they way the public, especially the newer generations, see them. Like that old riddle about a boy and father getting into a car crash and the dad dies but the boy is only injured. The boy is sent the the hospital where the doctor says, "I can't operate on the boy, for he is my son." In the past, many people couldn't figure out an answer to this question. Ask an average kid today, and they will probably tell you that the doctor was his mother, something which wasn't so accepted only a short time ago. Some will even say the boy had two fathers, showing that homosexuality has become somewhat more accepted in resent years, though current acceptance can definitely be improved. If parents wouldn't freak out about gays on TV, they would probably appear on TV more often, and eventually it would become even more accepted and gay kids wouldn't be bullied so much.