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needs to get over it.

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Seriously?

This is a Disney princess movie. The animated version was the first movie my now-10-yr-old daughter saw and she has loved it ever since. So of course she is very much anticipating this live action version, and I am seeing that Disney is pandering to the homosexuals by highlighting a relatively minor character as being gay, and I am likely going to have to explain that crap to my daughter, and I am just to 'get over it?"

Edit to add - my point is, this movie has a built-in audience. It is guaranteed to rake in millions of dollars in ticket sales. Why f*** with this movie by adding this unnecessary garbage? If Disney wants to make a movie about gays, that's fine. Just make a different movie.

Your 10yr old probably already knows about gays. hth

I hate to break it to you, but it's only going to get "worse" from here. You making it a big deal is the only thing that makes it a big deal.

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I hate to break it to you, but it's only going to get "worse" from here. You making it a big deal is the only thing that makes it a big deal.

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No, I am not making it a big deal. It is being forced on the viewing public by a gigantic corporation. This has shown up all day in various media, facebook, etc. Those are the ones making a big deal about it by going out of their way to say, hey, look, we made Lafou a gay character and isn't that just ******* great!

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Your 10yr old probably already knows about gays. hth

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She does, actually, but only in conceptual terms.

I know that I could treat this movie like I do one of the TV series, what is it, Modern Family, that features gays in prominent roles, and simply not see it. I really just don't think I should have to go to that extreme, or even go screen it by myself before taking my daughter because it is a DISNEY PRINCESS movie. This crap really pisses me off, actually.

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Why does your daughter knowing about gay people piss you off?

I mean, I could understand being upset if one character (male or female) was blowing another. But just acknowledging that gay people exist doesn't seem like something that should upset you. Unless you don't believe in gay people.

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Your 10yr old probably already knows about gays. hth

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She does, actually, but only in conceptual terms.

I know that I could treat this movie like I do one of the TV series, what is it, Modern Family, that features gays in prominent roles, and simply not see it. I really just don't think I should have to go to that extreme, or even go screen it by myself before taking my daughter because it is a DISNEY PRINCESS movie. This crap really pisses me off, actually.

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Why does your daughter knowing about gay people piss you off?

I mean, I could understand being upset if one character (male or female) was blowing another. But just acknowledging that gay people exist doesn't seem like something that should upset you. Unless you don't believe in gay people.

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The character was IMO not gay in the animated movie, so there is no need to make him gay in the live action movie, which as is well known, is a Princess movie. Princesses are marketed to girls from a very early age. This does not seem appropriate for the movie.

I don't discount the existence of gay people, gee, where did you get that from what I've said?

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Your 10yr old probably already knows about gays. hth

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She does, actually, but only in conceptual terms.

I know that I could treat this movie like I do one of the TV series, what is it, Modern Family, that features gays in prominent roles, and simply not see it. I really just don't think I should have to go to that extreme, or even go screen it by myself before taking my daughter because it is a DISNEY PRINCESS movie. This crap really pisses me off, actually.

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Why does your daughter knowing about gay people piss you off?

I mean, I could understand being upset if one character (male or female) was blowing another. But just acknowledging that gay people exist doesn't seem like something that should upset you. Unless you don't believe in gay people.

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The character was IMO not gay in the animated movie, so there is no need to make him gay in the live action movie, which as is well known, is a Princess movie. Princesses are marketed to girls from a very early age. This does not seem appropriate for the movie.

I don't discount the existence of gay people, gee, where did you get that from what I've said?

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What is not appropriate about a man liking another man? The whole movie celebrates bestiality.

That is actually hilarious.

"I don't wan't want my daughter asking questions about why two men love each other!!!"

"Daddy, why did the girl fall in love with the big talking wolf?"

"Great question, sweetheart! Well, when a woman and an animal love each other very much..."

I thought about the argument earlier when it was bouncing around politics, but then I thought it just kind of walks into the retort... "If the movie presents being gay as a curse, I have no problem with it." So yea...

I never got the beastiality thing. Belle knows he is cursed. Hell she's even seen a picture of him as a person. And nothing happens until he transforms at the end anyway

Spoilers!

I mean who here wouldn't be gay for Gaston? He's perfect, a pure paragon.

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Your 10yr old probably already knows about gays. hth

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She does, actually, but only in conceptual terms.

I know that I could treat this movie like I do one of the TV series, what is it, Modern Family, that features gays in prominent roles, and simply not see it. I really just don't think I should have to go to that extreme, or even go screen it by myself before taking my daughter because it is a DISNEY PRINCESS movie. This crap really pisses me off, actually.

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Why does your daughter knowing about gay people piss you off?

I mean, I could understand being upset if one character (male or female) was blowing another. But just acknowledging that gay people exist doesn't seem like something that should upset you. Unless you don't believe in gay people.

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The character was IMO not gay in the animated movie, so there is no need to make him gay in the live action movie, which as is well known, is a Princess movie. Princesses are marketed to girls from a very early age. This does not seem appropriate for the movie.

I don't discount the existence of gay people, gee, where did you get that from what I've said?

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You can't have a reasonable conversation with the gay mafia.

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That is actually hilarious.

"I don't wan't want my daughter asking questions about why two men love each other!!!"

"Daddy, why did the girl fall in love with the big talking wolf?"

"Great question, sweetheart! Well, when a woman and an animal love each other very much..."

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Except one of those is a clear fairy tale. Referring to the other one as a fairy tale to your kid will get you accused of child abuse these days.

And can we get this thread back on track, and off of the homophobic rants?

Let's not get this thread deleted, it's already veering into Politics board material.

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and I am likely going to have to explain that crap to my daughter, and I am just to 'get over it?"

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Recently had to do that with my son. We were picking out a wedding card for a lesbian wedding we were going to. He picked up one that had "For the Bride and Groom" on it. I told him that this was two girls getting married and we had to find a card with no men on it. His response was "Oh, OK. How about this one?"
<sarcasm>It was terrible.</sarcasm>

I don't normally troll here, but this whole thing is so dumb.

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Sad that they picked the town idiot character for their token gay. And stereotypically flamboyant.

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True progress is when a minority or disenfranchised group can be represented as the bad guy in a movie. Think how long it took Marvel to cast a black guy or woman as a villain.... wait... have they even done that yet?

Kids today are growing up in a different world than our generation did. I think parents make a much bigger deal than kids do about this stuff.

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Kids today are growing up in a different world than our generation did. I think parents make a much bigger deal than kids do about this stuff.

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It's a part of society. I really look forward to a time where alternate sexuality preferences, etc, is so commonplace in movies we don't even think about it.

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I look forward to the time where people realize they are just f'n movies and get over themselves.

See Great Wall as a perfect example. People are crying foul because a Chinese company made a Chinese film, but had a white guy play a european soldier so its obvious racism and whitewashing.