I know what this is supposed to be implying, but those words paired with a picture of two people who look exactly alike is hilarious.
"The air nomads were accepting of differences. That's why they lived in gender segregated temples and were monks who shaved their heads and dressed alike and practiced asceticism."
Alternatively, they practiced situational homosexuality, which is often the case in gender segregated institutions. Which is not the same thing as being accepting.
I do have a really hard time believing that an order of spirituay detached monks would be accepting of any romantic relationships at all, but it would be kind of funny if they were generally accepting of homosexual relationships, but strictly forbid heterosexual ones outside of necessary procreation.
But maybe I'm just immature.
See no, because I have a bunch of questions about how air nomad straight relationships work
Because they can't live together because their temples are divided by sex so is every straight relationship a long distance relationship? Unless they move out of the temple I guess but I'm sure that's frowned upon
If they only have relationships for procreation, are there rules about how it's supposed to go? Do they assign you someone to have a kid with?
Can each couple only have one baby? What happens if there's twins? Are they not told that they're twins Parent Trap-style? How do you prevent against incest?
Is Aang going against his culture by having a family with Katara? The guy that wouldn't go against his culture to save the world?
To answer the easy question first, if he is a monk as he says he is, then yes having a family with Katara would go against his culture. Like that's basically one of the most important parts of what being a monk is.
As for how relationships work, before the idea that all Airbenders are monks or nuns was confirmed the idea was that there were airbenders who weren't monk or nuns, they had relationships and the clergy didn't. After it was made to seem that all Air Nomads were monks or nuns the common head canon was that there were basically fertility festivals (with varying levels of how strict they were about individuals maintaining relationships vs requiring dΓ©tachement) and that the resulting children would be sent to the temple opposite of their same-sex parent to be raised with the elders keeping birth records to prevent incest. Because again, spiritually detached monks. They shouldn't be having sex or kids at all but if they're the only members of their culture they kind of have to.
Since there are four temples, you could send same sex twins to different temples. But you have to do a lot of headcanoning to make it work, and even then, either Aang is a monk and should not be in a relationship with Katara at all, or he should only be involved with women long enough to procreate and not have a family. Either way, no kataang.
But I'm willing to bet this is also why Bryke couldn't let any of the airbenders survive or bring back air nomad cultural practices. If Aang is the only one, he can do whatever he wants.
