#and also. atla was written by european americans for an american audience during the 2000s so ofc the world's not going to be

[katara-deserved-way-better]

I apologize if I could find this elsewhere but what did c*mradekatara do? Why are they homophobic? I follow them but am unaware of problematic behaviour. I ask because I would like to follow you, thank u in adv

comradekatara is not homophobic as far as i know (their previous url was lesbians4sokka, so unless they have some internalized homophobia going on, I very much doubt it [then again they did tear down Katara in favor of Z.ukka so. no thanks]), they were the ones who spearheaded/made the ‘homophobic Katara’ headcanon very popular, especially in Zu.kka shipping circles (especially the new wave of shippers, just...sigh)

Now, i wouldn’t have a problem if they (I believe the account is run by two people) apologized, but rather than apologizing, they said ‘oh, we didn’t mean for it to get popular!’ and then continued to perpetuate the headcanon (and it’s not going to surprise me if you told me comradekatara were run by grown women. i don’t like making sweeping generalizations, but the z.ukka fandom has a big problem with their adults not taking responsibility for anything). visibilityofcolor has talked about how harmful the ‘homophobic katara’ meme is to WoC (and dark skinned WoC/indigenous girls and women in particular), while firelxdykatara has talked about how the ‘homophobic Katara’ meme is very much not in character in-universe or even makes sense. 

anyways, as a Katara stan who hates the injection of homophobia in an Asian-Inuit based world where people move elements, I hated this headcanon when it started getting popular (that’s how I saw it, I didn’t even know they existed until homophobic katara started popping up all over my dash) and I saw it particularly among the new wave of Z.ukka shippers.  

also the comics are trash but there is a standalone comic where Book 2 Gaang meets a girl who has two dads and Katara is nothing but supportive and is even happy for the couple. so, like some garbage headcanons, i’m very glad that it’s partially canon that Katara is a supportive person (like she always is, someone please get her a chiropractor because she carried this entire show and her team)

anyways, no need to apologize about it, some of these things might not be known because comradekatara got popular at the start of the pandemic/in the summer (idk the exact time, but it was about a year ago)