If homsexuality could be cured, would you want it to?

[Sprafa]

Due to request in the other thread on the subject that I agreed, I've made this thread.

Anyway an example to follow -

There is a movie called "The last Supper"

let me quote

The main premise here is that a nice attractive group of very liberal twenty-somethings decide to become a Latin American style death squad. They are all nicely politically correct, liberal of course, highly educated, artsy, with no real discernible income but yet live in a wonderfully beautiful house in a rural setting. It'd be interesting to see the reaction were a nice, young, attractive group of conservatives were shown killing those they disagreed with in exactly the same plot--I'd suspect the howling would be deafening even seven years later. But this is a left wing death squad, so I suppose for Hollywood, it's okay.

Of course this death squad doesn't do things messy, they don't put people in gulags (like Stalin) or grab people off the street and put them in vans only to be thrown out of planes over the ocean (as in Argentina); no these folks are a yuppie death squad--they kill over al dente pasta and a nice rich merlot. But of course the point is the same--to kill one's political enemies when they simply refuse to agree with you.

The plot is certainly interesting, in that it has complexities that are worth considering: The liberal group becomes increasingly agitated as it goes on with its grisly business, in strangely different ways. In one scene, they laugh delightedly over the death of a cleric, yet are horrified when one of their own seems to be dying accidentally.

The group moves from the obviously guilty: racist, gay hater, priest, pro-lifer" to the more dubiously guilty: The poor woman who simply doesn't like "Catcher in the Rye" and the police officer.

Ron Perleman, as the archconservative Rush Limbaugh style talk show host, puts in a wonderful performance, mostly because I'd guess he's got the most to work with. Most everyone else has only a one note part--in particular the liberal death group are incredibly vapid. It's hard to know whether they are written that way on purpose, or simply because the writers simply didn't think they were vapid--just really the way people ought to be. It'd be nice to think this was part of the irony, but the ending tends to contravene that notion.

The culmination is bizarre, in fact, worthy of some weird extremist group: It implies that the real problem with this death squad was that they were insufficiently ruthless in their quest, in their decision to kill. The "disappeared" in this movie are, by and large, cartoons of their real life counterparts--which is of course the first thing one does before providing reasons to indulge in despicable acts: demonize them as less than human, as ultimately evil, subhuman.

As before, this movie would be held up as a horrifying example of intolerance if it were exactly the same, yet the politics were entirely reversed. Worth seeing to see one of Hollywood's instances where their real extremism shows through.

 

[BlackWolfdrk]

was it my request

 

[craig]

Well, I vote yes.

was it my request

No, mine.

 

[Varg|Hund]

No! It's not a sickness, and it should therefore not be cured! (unless of course the affected induviduals would want it cured)
/me waves a rainbow-flag.

 

[marksmanHL2 :)]

Aargh, This is seriously my last post for tonight now lol



All I wanted to say was that you should add an option saying it isnt something that can be cured.


Not everyone thinks its some kind of disease.....






Those arnt my opinions by the way. I just want the pole to be fair.

 

[JonTheCanuck]

i'm not going to decide for everybody but i'd say that if someone wanted to be cured then it'd be nice if it was available. I'm sure there are a few gays out there that dont like being gay and wish they could switch it off because of the hardships they have to face with society/family.

 

[Letters]

I don't ****ing care.

 

[BlackWolfdrk]

Well, I vote yes.




No, mine.

damn yoou damn you to hell but while your their get me a pizza

 

[Murray_H]

Oh my god this is so stupid, narrow-minded, selfish and insensitive. You are treating someones feeling like a disease, who cares what you narrow-minded pricks think, let them get on with their lives and stop trying to decide what is right and wrong for them.

This is seriously pissing me off now

 

[Loshadka]

/me shoves Varg|Hund's rainbow-flag up his own ass.

It's a mental deviation. The treatment of it should be forced.

 

[craig]

damn yoou damn you to hell but while your their get me a pizza

/me hands BlackWolfdrk a pizza.

Would you like a drink with that sir?

 

[Maxi]

I voted yes.

 

[Dedalus]

you guys are so childish. shall i go and invent a cure for straight people? that way they won't be straight anymore!

my answer: don't give a flying f.uck

why do we need a cure for being gay? is it infectious? it might be airborn you know. could get into the water. who knows, maybe if you sit on a toilet seat that was used by a gay person you might contract the disease. oh no run!

we need a cure for stupidity i think, that'd do a lot more good than a cure for being gay.

 

[BlackWolfdrk]

/me hands BlackWolfdrk a pizza.

Would you like a drink with that sir?

why yes i would

 

[craig]

why yes i would

A coke okay?

 

[ComradeBadger]

This topic is incredibly offensive. Do NOT post material like that in the forums.

 

[The Dark Elf]

Sparfa. Enough is enough, you are banned for 2 weeks to think about the rules of this forum and your behavior here.