I've had a ton of LGBT friends since I started university. I was raised in the Church in Wales (basically Anglican), went to a Church in Wales school and all that and it was a pretty homophobic environment, to the point that I wasn't really exposed to anything but church propaganda, and while I was on the most part accepting intellectually, actually seeing gay people weirded me out a bit. Partly because it was alien to me, and partly because the environment I was raised in painted it as being weird.
But since starting uni, finishing it, and starting again, I've met so many LGBT people and their same sex significant others that it's been normalised for me. But I still know some people from school who are "fine" with gay people, so long as they don't "flaunt it" or whatever.
I think that's what a big chunk of the homophobic reaction to Korrasami is, rather than passionate gay hating. Doesn't make it right, of course, but there are lots of bigoted fucks in the world who want to make life as difficult for LGBT people as possible, and in terms of influencing the social attitudes of otherwise great and accepting people, these bigots are doing a good job of it.
Did Azula really drop this thread because of Toa TAK? That sucks. And it looks like Korrasami dominated the thread, as expected XD
He'll be back for the community thread. He sent me a detailed plan on what we could do for it and I'm thinking about what to do for it too. I assume at some point in January it will be ready to roll, but before it's posted we'll wait for this thread's activity to slow down (which it has, significantly, since the weekend).
On a more general note to all of KorraGAF, do we have any graphic design maestros on here? I need help with banners and such for the AvatarGAF community thread. If you can help, PM me.
