If you think being gay is equal to being a burden, what are you even doing on this site ? Seriously, fuck off. Calling gay children a burden is literal homophobia and should not be accepted in a safe space such as here.
Even today there aren't many places where you can grow up gay and not make it harder for yourself and your family. People told me I'm a satanist for liking girls and that I'm a burden to society for not wanting kids and get married. That was in germany which is not super religious. Imagine living in a more conservative country. You can't always just cut off your community and go move somewhere else.
I really don't appreciate this ( mostly american it seems) twitter culture of attacking anything and anyone. People aren't your enemy just because they say something you don't want to hear. How can this create a "safe space"? Not being allowed to say anything that could be seen as uncomfortable creates toxic positivity. This is not punching nazis, this is hurting our own side.
Anyway, maybe now the Doer of Nothing will become a Doer of Something in her next training arc.
I don't know what Germany is like, but the US nowadays doesn't really value family bonds or being a parent. Children are expected to move out at 18, lest they become a burden on their parents, the extended family is not expected to help with child raising, parents are expected to pay for their own retirement and may be shunted into an abusive nursing home if they don't, children are expected to place their life goals over the parents (in terms of career choice etc), an impoverished person having children is seen as irresponsible rather than someone worthy of support, and similar. I'm speaking in generalities, but this is the overall tendency.
I believe this leads to some cultural differences in terms of how fictional works are interpreted, even if LGBT authors in both countries are broadly interested in the LGBT characters becoming self actualized and having successful relationships. A lesbian entering an arranged marriage with a man due to wanting to please their traditionalist parents would not really even be conceivable in a US work, for instance, whereas it's something that could happen in an east Asian work depending on the character's specific background. Even if the character doesn't go to these extremes, the character trying harder to please the parents in other ways becomes likely.
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