User blog comment:Roxas82/For those who say "iCarly is a kid's show" to disprove Cam/@comment-3059315-20101121153510/@comment-3059315-20101124044957

Actually, kids can be much worse bullies than teens can. Take it from someone who's been bullied all their life. It was WAY worse for me in elementary school than it is now that I'm a junior in high school. After about 8th grade a lot of the bullies lost interest. It's true I wasn't being bullied for being gay, because I'm not gay, but the basic idea is that kids bully other kids for being "different," and being gay is certainly seen as being different.

By the time someone hits their teens, usually they already know their major view points on controversial topics like homosexuality, and it takes a lot more than a TV show for that kind of thing to seem normal to them. But if they see gay people as normal from an early age, that ideal will likely stick with them.

And the riddle was a study I saw on the news a while back where they asked several kids this question. It was mostly the younger kids that thought of the doctor being the mom or the kid having two dads as fairly normal. My immediate thought when I first heard it was that the doctor was his mom, but that wasn't my point. My point was that kids aren't born with the idea that gays are weird or that women can't be doctors. These ideas are influenced by their surroundings. So if people try to hide homosexuality from kids and simply tell them it's sick or wrong, they will believe it. If they are taught that homosexuality is perfectly normal and fine, then they will probably see it that way. Some parents don't want their kids to see it this way though, which brings us back to either they are worried about bullying or they themselves are homophobic.