[Mugenlazlo]

You can't have gay characters in a kids franchise.

[GreenPsychoRanger]

And just why not? And don't you dare say its a "morality thing".

[Matrixbeast]

You can have a gay character in a kid's show.
They just don't because they don't want the controversy and war on their hands for doing so.
PR wants to make money and sell toys, so there's no point in taking some kind of moral high ground when it costs them their main goal.

[GreenPsychoRanger]

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Originally Posted by Matrixbeast

You can have a gay character in a kid's show.
They just don't because they don't want the controversy and war on their hands for doing so.
PR wants to make money and sell toys, so there's no point in taking some kind of moral high ground when it costs them their main goal.

I understand that Matrix. They play it safe for the sake of money and continuity. But Mugen said,

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Originally Posted by Mugenlazlo

You can't have gay characters in a kids franchise.

And that just makes me...... he said it the wrong way. Or at the very least used the wrong word.

[Matrixbeast]

That's simply because he's confused with what people shy away from due to it being a touchy subject matter and what's actually not allowed on TV.
It's rather common. Homosexuality strikes people as a more adult matter, so they'd assume that it wouldn't be allowed on a kid's show, when it's more just the creators of said kid's show just don't want to take a step into that whole box of worms.

[MrHerofan]

Well we did have Korrasami, Oren possibly, and probably countless others. It's only a big deal because certain people have issues with IRL gays. It will take generations to change the issue. Going to a message board about Power Rangers won't change the issue. So continuing this disscussion is pointless, because it will literally just be going in an infinite loop. So again please, just move on.

[Matrixbeast]

Asshole, the entire point of the topic is about having a gay ranger.

Any discussion over any topic can be declared pointless with the defeatist attitude of "The issue will change itself on it's own, and everything we do is irrelevant, so just stop talking about it altogether."
It's the same attitude of choosing not to vote because "It's one vote out of 15 million. My vote doesn't matter."
By ignoring the topic under the assumption that 3 people talking about it is too small to matter, you fail to see the larger picture. When you say that our thoughts are irrelevant, and another says the thoughts of another 10 people on a different board are irrelevant, and so on and so forth, you create the issue of said topic not being brought into light properly. Snuffing out opinions just because you can't see the world in a smaller scale and just blindly believing the world will fix itself on it's own hinders the faster progression we're aiming for.

[GreenPsychoRanger]

^What Matrix said.

[MrHerofan]

But truly, three people going on a Power Rangers board will change nothing. It won't make people realize anything, nor will it change how kids shows are made. Patience is something this world truly lacks, and it's vital. The issue will change, just given time for this new idea to become more accepting.

[GreenPsychoRanger]

And again, you fail to miss the purpose of this thread. The purpose of this thread was completely speculation. Nothing in this thread is trying to make a change in the world, just putting our thoughts and opinions out there. It doesn't matter the number of participants of the conversation, we have this conversation because we want to, not to try to make a change. If we wanted to do that don't you think we would do it somewhere other than a message board like this? I most certainly would.