social-justice-wario:

social-justice-wario:

Wario’s gettin reeeeal sick and tired of words like “gay” and “lesbian” being considered “inappropriate for children”.

The censoring of words like gay and lesbian for “family friendly” audiences also ties back into the whole “homosexuals are perverts and pedophiles” myth that is so widespread. Extremely bigoted people spread the myth that queer people are inherently disgusting, wrong, unnatural, and worst of all, harmful to others. These people are so vehemently opposed to anything queer, even the mere mention of it is cause for extreme alarm. 

And these people hold power. Lots of power. Enough power to make it impossible to have queer characters or themes in media for children. Enough to make something as simple as “don’t bully kids for their sexual orientation” into a massive argument. Enough to make it so major companies like Nintendo and Microsoft add words like “gay” to their chat filters. World of Warcraft at one point had “gay” as a censored word on it’s family-friendly chat filter, but not “faggot”.

Young people are the ones who are most in need of reassurance that their sexual/romantic orientation and gender is healthy and normal. By setting up a system where queer kids are forced to explore their queerness on their own, without any kind of support or guidance from the media they digest, without knowing there are tons of other people just like them, and a heavy stigma against turning to older queer people for support (the pedophillia myth), homophobes effectively drive a wedge directly into the LGBTQIA community.