Sybil (Diane Keaton), Everett’s mom, is particularly progressive. “I tried to make all my boys gay,” Sybil tells a Christmas dinner gathering.
Did she truly mean it? If so, then she is discriminating against her straight children for being heterosexual. Classic reverse discrimination, which has always been fine with the libs. If she is joking (more likely the case) then she is mocking her gay son, whether she thinks so or not.
When the Sarah Jessica Parker character questions whether any parent would actually encourage their children to be gay, she is shouted down. But if mom was joking, why wasn't she shouted down? Mom was the one who raised the issue to begin with.
This is the paradox. Most of us could care less whether someone is gay, straight, black, white. Personally, I prefer to evaluate my relationships toward people based on what they do that is relevant to their interactions with me as opposed to race, religion or sexual proclivity. But the libs force us to find out if someone is part of the "protected classes" so they can then harangue us for discriminating. This is precisely what happened in the movie.
The sexist was Dianne Keaton for calling attention to her son's sexual proclivities, then baiting her guest. When the guest basically points out the truth (ie, the mother was joking), then the guest becomes the homophobe. Priceless.
There was another sneaky scene that apparently was used to generate sympathy for masectomy victims. Keaton and Nelson are having a tender moment in bed when she pulled her top open. She pulled his hand over the vivid scar. It had nothing to do with anything about the movie.