Talk:Lyra Heartstrings/@comment-4531340-20150613213109/@comment-3564167-20150925083538

Pardon me for dredging this up. Late to the party. Anyhow...

Phelous: Anna and Elsa are neither just best friends nor a romantic couple. They're SISTERS, and familial affection is a different categhory than either the romantic or the platonic sort.

Phelous and Jonny: It's worth noting that different countries have different standards on this sort of thing. In Japan, homosexual characters in programs for a younger audience aren't as big a deal. In the US, it'd spark a giant, stupid-ass controversy, and I'll leave it at that rather than risk crossing a line. And in certain countries, such as Russia, I've heard that it's flat-out illegal. So the viewpoint needs to be adjusted a bit sometimes for where a thing comes from, and then for wherever else it might have been filtered through.

Golden: Some rare people actually do defend the compatibility (or explain why they don't think a pairing is compatible).

On the other hand, while the "homophobia" card  is definitely overplayed, once in a while it is actually true. Even if homophobia doesn't exist in Equestria (which it might; racism seems to), the same is not true in our world.