Board Thread:False Info and Speculative Discussion/@comment-25184427-20140722165407/@comment-19765459-20140724212833

Jackson Van Kleeck wrote: I think it's just that we're not used to it.

Of course you aren't. Until very recently we had to hide it to avoid violence. Understand that it was not uncommon even just a couple decades ago for judges and juries to dismiss charges against people who assaulted, or even murdered, "known homosexuals". People who attacked gays could and did defend themselves by arguing that the mere sight of them triggered a "natural" violent response!

But, if you go back through history, that is a recurring theme. Interracial couples once triggered the same response. In early America, when culture was much more puritanical, any public display of affection beyond linked arms was considered "indecent"! The Dallas Cowboy Cheerleaders would have been rounded up en masse and thrown in jail for all kinds of "gross indecency", as would virtually every woman wearing what is considered "normal" clothing today!

Teen Wolf would have been considered wholly inappropriate for TV right up until the 70's even if you removed the gay characters and references! Things like Kate's implied ephebophilia, the explicit acknowledgement that teenagers have sex and especially that females may be both violent and sexually aggressive would have been considered inappropriate for viewing audiences given how graphically they are depicted. Kate's torture of Derek in S1 alone would have pushed this to the edge of being considered an "adult" movie!

There is no actual baseline for what is considered "traditional" or "normal". A lot has changed, even within the lifetimes of people alive today, and even with regards to public displays of heterosexual behavior.