[ SECRET POST #3226 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3226 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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[Animal Crossing]


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03.
[Steven Universe]


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04.
[Excess Baggage]


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05.
[Sue Perkins]


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[Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans]


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[Vin Diesel]


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[Hemlock Grove]









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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I lived three years in Japan and that was not really my experience. Yeah, if you are gay, they'll often think of it as a phase, or assume it means that you're transgender, but it's still not socially acceptable and parents still flip shit over it. Of course, even heterosexual people often don't bring partners home to their parents unless they're engaged so the issue doesn't much come up.

[herpymcderp]

Like I said, it depends on age. The younger someone is, the less likely it is to be taken seriously. Teens and kids being romantic? Almost never even a concern. I taught kids and teens, and so I was frequently exposed to attitudes about homosexuality in young people. It was almost the norm to pretend homosexuality "doesn't exist" until a person is much older.

Once you start getting to older age groups, then yes, there would be some hell to pay if it got out that you were never going to marry and have a proper family, or that you were sneaking around doing "embarrassing" acts with older partners.

[(Anonymous)]

I was a student for one year and a teacher for two, and I taught all age groups including a few college classes. You're right, they do pretend it doesn't exist, or if they talk about it, they often have enormous misconceptions. I heard "we don't have gay people in Japan" several times, as well as gay = transgender, or it's only a porn thing, etc.

But I can guarantee almost all parents would not react with a laugh and an assumption that it is "just a phase" if their kid brought home a same-sex partner. It's still viewed as shameful, even disgusting. What you're talking about is youth culture's attitudes toward homosexuality - which they have been more exposed to - NOT whether or not they would feel comfortable telling their parents they were gay, or living out as a gay person. I'm not saying everyone is homophobic in Japan but it's so rarely talked about openly that most gay people don't feel comfortable being out to their families. I knew a gay guy who was planning on having a wedding in Hawaii with his partner and still wasn't out to his parents.