Should kids & family movies have gay characters?

Should kids & family movies have gay characters? Mar 10, 2017 14:38:55 GMT CybeRider likes this

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Post by Deleted on Mar 10, 2017 14:38:55 GMT

Mar 10, 2017 14:31:09 GMT THawk said:

Mar 10, 2017 14:23:49 GMT @graham said:

This makes no sense to me.

Only putting straight characters in your movies is equally divisive. So by your logic, nobody should do that either. Which would mean that nobody should make kids and family movies at all.

I take that as a reductio ad absurdum which demonstrates that your premise is flawed.

Lol. and how is that divisive? The vast majority, vast vast majority of the world is straight, and there has been no prominent movement in any society in any portion of history that has questioned whether being straight is ok or not.

No, nobody claims that it's wrong to be straight. (Well, I'm sure somebody does but it's a tiny minority.)

But there is a widespread movement that says that movies should be diverse - that minority groups have a right to be represented as well. So if you make a movie that lacks such diversity, this is controversial - we see this from time to time, i.e. the "white oscars" controversy from a year or two ago.

Now of course you might want to dismiss those people and say they're stupid and wrong. But then they would do the same regarding the argument that being gay is somehow not ok. And they'd be right, IMO.

So by your logic, we must not have gays because it is controversial. And we must not exclude gays, because it is controversial. Which can only mean we must not make movies at all. Although that would probably be controversial too.

It's impossible to avoid controversy when you make movies. So the argument that movie must avoid controversy is nonsensical.