What about the complete tragedy of marriages being broken up and children abandoned by fathers?
What about the tragedy of trusting, loving women being lied to, cheated on and betrayed by their husbands?
That's Michael Medved's whole point.
No, no, that's what I'm saying -- it's a "tragedy for all parties involved" -- that's what I said. The point I wanted to make was that it's not about gays throwing themselves in other people faces. It's that the tragedy is so hard to avoid for ALL those people when the environment is so repressive and unsympathetic. Now I'm not saying you should go and let homosexuals do whatever they want -- but the seriously, when pressure is put on them to pretend they're not gay (violence toward gays, general stigma, etc), that's when all the problems erupt, just like in this movie.
I want people to accept that the solutions to these problems are not so easy. You can't just say "gays are evil and gross, and we should never ever talk about them rationally. Let's make fun of them!"
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