"ParaNorman" has a character named Mitch, who is, of course, a heavily-muscled jock who seems heterosexual until the end of the movie, at which time a girl named Courtney asks him if he wants to see a movie.
Sure, he says, you’ll just love my boyfriend, who’s into chick flicks.
It’s a time-honored technique of the gay community to hide the fact that a character is gay until the audience has developed a real affinity for him/her, then catch the audience off-guard by divulging that the character is gay.
It'a all a nefarious plot, you see, to pass off "hommosectionals" as -- gasp! -- human. Gods forbid anyone should have any "real affinity" for a gay person.
(By the way, according to some who have seen the film, Mitch is quite obviously not interested in Norman's sister, who keeps making advances.)
This article at National Review by Nancy French is illuminating.
However, parents who take children to the new movie ParaNorman might have to answer unwanted questions about sex and homosexuality on the way home from the movie theater.
If you read the post -- it's short -- one thing comes through loud and clear: it's not about her children, it's all about her.
One reason I haven't been posting this week is because, with the Republican convention in full swing, this sort of crap has been all over the place. It wears you down, after a while.
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