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To be fair to Google, anyone can put anything up there. Just because they host something doesn't mean they agree with it.
I don't even care if google agrees with it. (They do, it's promoted and featured. ) I just want the ability to filter it out for my children. I don't think they should be bombarded with gay stuff before 18. Especially not at 5 years old. There is no lgbt filter like there is for porn or nudity. I've just banned all my kids from having unsupervised tablets.
Netflix is actually the easiest. I can do a search for lgbqt and then block every title that comes up. Then I monitor what they are watching and if any blue haired character or female with a buzz cut comes on I block that title too to be safe.
I rip my own blurays and dvd's to build children's collections on kodi and jellyfin. That helps. Kids are addicted to endless doom scrolling video collections though.
Ah, in that case I totally understand. My son's obviously still very young, but we play everything that he's going to watch on the big screen TV so that we can hit the stop button if something weird starts to play.
I find it really difficult because I don't actually have any problem with gay people or whatever, but in the same way that I wouldn't want to bring them to a strip club in utah, I just don't think that they should be exposed to sexualized materials even if there's no nudity or the like. It's just not for them.
I'm not sure how I feel about gay couples to be honest. I don't actually care about closet gays or even open amongst adults I just feel kids shouldn't witness dudes kissing.
At the end of the day they aren't hurting anyone by being gay at home but I want grand kids so I don't want to encourage behavior that would result in a genetic dead end.
I don't want to proliferate hatred/intolerance of any kind so I'm sure I have room to grow and learn here.
I feel like the closet system worked fine though.
I don't think we need a separate standard here. The past few generations really opened things up in terms of open sexuality of all kinds, but it seems pretty clear we made a mistake in doing that. The oversexualization of our society casts a pall over all interactions -- not only is everyone watching for sexual inuendo with people they'd want to have sex with (so for example women and men), we now have men watching their words with other men, and in such a way community is slowly destroyed by building a growing wall of watching what you say in situations where sexuality ought not to be on the menu at all, such as interactions with children.
I know for me, I had to turn off the part of my brain that's looking for hidden meaning in things in that way when my son was born, because I was so busy stumbling over my words trying not to say anything that could be taken 2 ways that I wasn't saying nearly as much as I wanted. Instead, I'll say what I mean and mean it and be damned if it happens to have another meaning because he's just a baby and he needs to see me saying things without stumbling due to hitting hidden meanings and not wanting to look bad for my imaginary critic.
Given all this, my proposal would be to have less sexuality between men in non-sexual situations, and also less sexuality between men and women in non-sexual situations, and women and women in non-sexual situations. Let's put it back in the bedroom where it belongs, or at the very least keep it in the club where people are looking for that sort of thing.