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"maybe you wouldn't find something like that from a major studio, but if you did i don't think it would recieve backlash from the gay community or people with firm support for homosexual rights (like this movie appears to be getting)."
That's my point. It wouldn't receive much backlash because *it's hardly ever done*! If it was done all the time, like the gay-turned-straight phenomena, I imagine a coalition might form that wanted to set the record straight. Gay rights advocates are angry about prejudices that have existed for hundreds of years. That's what they're trying to stop. Movements build to stop destructive *trends*, not fleeting, isolated incidents.
I might add that it's hard to find a consenus among "the gay community." I'm gay, but I don't really feel like I belong to a "community" at all. In fact, I disagree quite frequently with the politics and ideas of gay groups.
And I *would* find a straight-turned-gay movie offensive because it only reinforces the stereotype that we're somehow "recruiting" unsuspecting heterosexuals.
"i sure if you take humanity as a whole you would find tons of examples of people "switching" sexualities. after all there are many people who could be called "polymorphous perverse" or "trysexuals" as they will try anything that is sexual. meaning they will have sex with anything and everything. i forget how mr. cranky puts it, something about how the movie makes it look like people wave their sexuality around willy nilly, when in fact that is something that many people actually do."
I have often said that (ideally) sexuality is more fluid than we realize and doesn't exist confined to rigid binary constructions like "gay" and "straight." However, it is not portrayed fluidly *in both directions* in popular media. Like I said, it is primarily shown to support the existing social structure (by presenting gay-to-straight conversions). There are distinct ideological underpinnings in these portrayals - and it's not of a free- wheeling "polymorphous" sexuality.
"the idea that people have no choice when it comes to their sexuality is an idea i find ignorant as people can chose to have sex with who and what they want."
Naturally. But people do not "choose" whether they are gay, straight, or bisexual. *I* find it ignorant when people assume that sexuality is only about the act of sex. No one chooses who they are attracted to. It simply happens. If you're a man who is only attracted to men, eventually you'll realize this pattern, and you'll probably have sex with a man. Or you might lie to yourself, pretend you like women, and sleep with women. That's your choice - you can either lie to yourself or not. The sexual *act* is a choice - not your sexuality.
"however i absolutely will not agree that lesbians never decided to choose to have sex with men or have relationships with men. that is rediculous."
Some lesbians might be with men until they realize they're gay. Some women might find they are bisexual and have feelings for both men and women. And there are some lesbians who have never had sex with men or had relationships with men. I am one of them. (And before this begins any kind of long and fruitless debate, I am not a "man-hater" and have nothing against them. I get along just as well with men (sometimes better) as I do with women. I just don't fall in love with them.)
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