snuggydeamon:I was so onboard with this movie, up until this point. I’m not sure how els
snuggydeamon:I was so onboard with this movie, up until this point. I’m not sure how else bi viewers were supposed to take this reaction from his parents other than mocking the existence of bisexuality and enforcing the idea of monosexuality - homosexual or heterosexual, and anything in between isn’t a “real” possibility. Either that or they’re stereotyping their son as a gay man and rejecting another stereotype of a bisexual man, though what that stereotype is isn’t clear. Considering many gay men’s attitudes towards bisexuality, I read this as the former. From a film about respecting minorities who are largely stereotyped, this was a nasty surprise. I wasn’t expecting this sort of blatant prejudice in a film all about acceptance. But there you have it, folks; bisexuals experience prejudice from not just heterosexuals, but the gay communities as well, as the writer of this film was a gay man.I just watched this movie last week. I didn’t take this scene as bi-erasure or stereotyping. This is his dad and stepmom, they’ve lived with him for all of/some of his entire life (respectively) and have had a chance to see his behavior towards women as he matured and experienced puberty and could see there was no attraction between him and women. However, I WOULD have liked to have some bi characters in the mix in general, since we had several gay dudes, one lesbian, and a whole hoard of straights. (I would be more mad about the Mormon kid who was trying to get the gayness out of his system so he could marry his girlfriend (and then turned out to accept being gay, maybe, sorta, because he got to sleep with a hot dude) than about this, personally. -- source link
Tumblr Blog : snuggywolfgang-deactivated20150.tumblr.com