Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-4731447-20150622184032/@comment-26005465-20150622233252

Strong In The Real Way wrote: Killer365 wrote: I'd be lying if I said that I'm a fan of people going on in chat about each of the gems orientation towards each other and people calling the gems gay for one another. The fact of the matter is (that from our human perspective) the Gems are gay for another.

Ruby and Sapphire are gay for each-other.

Garnet is their lesbian relationship made flesh.

Pearl somehow manages to be even more gay than Garnet when it comes to Rose, even-though it technically shouldn't be possible.

If people have issues with this, that is their problem not ours. Steven Universe is about accepting people who they are. Quite frankly, we should be the fandom that has the least (if we should even have any issue at all) with these terms being used freely and in a positive light. That is what Steven Universe is all about; love.

By using these terms as means of affection for the Gems we can turn away the usual negativity surrounding them.

And I write this as a straight CIS male, too. lol.

Killer365 wrote: We get many users on chat and the main wiki who do take offense to that word being used in a negative context so thus we shouldn't be allowing for it to be used in that way. Of course. As I said, if a user uses the term to insult or harass another user than it is a wholly different matter. But then that's the problem. There is no way to tell if a user is using it to describe somoene's sexuallity or if they are using i as an insult.

Sentence Example : Pearl is Gay.

You can't tell if how I am using that word, as I could be saying as an alternate form of "I hate Pearl" or I could be stating her sexuallity. But we all know there are people who abuse that and get away with it. So its not even worth the risk