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Obviously what she wrote is the journalistic equivalent of "trolling" but still just for saying it she needs someone to fuck start her head. Of course this is the NY Post we're talking about so this vile sensationalist opinion isn't exactly unexpected from that fine publication.

She is wrong though about one thing. I have a friend with lesbian parents and they are just as fucked up as heteros. Meaning, totally normal.

Apparently Hollywood has gone so gay they've sodomized themselves back to the 50's!! Quick, get me the ghost of Allen Ginsberg!

Holy shit.

This bitch is a piece of work. She just flippantly took a flamethrower to:

Gay relationships
Children of gay couples
Successful lesbians
Gay families
Parents with issues of their own, aside from their kids
Loving parents
Closeted men who refuse to live a tortured, fake life to fool their kids

Wow.

WOW!!!!

I am nearly speechless. This is so brazenly homophobic that I don't know where to begin. Who is this cunt? This can't be serious. No way this gets published in a national newspaper without it being some sort of misguided joke. Sweet Fancy Moses.

Addendum: Hollywood being more open about gayness is not the issue with this moron. It's an issue. Much like everything else I suspect.

A-lister Annette Bening, as the control-freak doctor Nic, “wed” to A-lister Julianne Moore, as the weepy, infantilized Jules — seem not just normal, but close to godly.

25 years ago, Annette Bening going down on Julianne Moore would have been godly.

End around morality?

How about this: you raise your kids how you want to and others can raise their kids like they want to?

WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
I am in love with Neal Cassaday
He really makes me howl
But homophobia in the world today
It really makes me scowl!
WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

A type-A person and a hilariously emotional person make up a couple in a movie?

And they're portrayed as normal in an amusingly anecdotal way?

It's so strange... It's almost like every other movie involving a married couple with quirks and grounded by love, who are shaken by a change, but inevitably rediscover themselves in a stronger place through the ties of kinship and self-growth.

But nooooo that couldn't be possible. You can't be gay and function like an average couple. You certainly can't be happy and establish healthy relationships with your partner and children. You have to be full of ridiculously one-dimensional stereotypes, wherein you only have surface level conflicts that don't actually establish depth.

If I can't rely on overly played-out tropes in Hollywood in which people who are different from me are portrayed as caricatures, what can I trust!!?!??

Hey Dustin, that was sneaky! I'm following all of your points, you seem to be in total agreement with Ms. Peyser's post, and you wait until the very last sentence to throw us all for a loop-

You were being sarcastic the entire time, you joker!! You didn't support her comments AT ALL, did you?

But I have to give credit where it's due, you sly fox, successfully keeping us in the dark all the way up until that big 'reveal' at the end!

Nice trick, but I'm on to you now. Don't go thinking it'll be that easy the next time, joker guy!

Sweet Fancy Moses

OMG Moses was gay?

OMG Moses was gay?

What did you think they meant by his 'years in the wilderness' hmmm?

I did know that Moses supposes his toeses are roses...

Ooooh can I change my screen name to Comusexual Homonist? PLEASE?????

I imagine when she says "It reaches further than the gay-cowboy romp “Brokeback Mountain”...while shielding the kids from their shenanigans...exposing kids is the entire point" she must mean in the context of the story.

Yes! Jake Gyllenhall and Heath Ledger aren't cornholing eachother in front of their children. 1. That would just be too much for any small child to handle when the WHOLE TIME the daddies have kept up the visage of heterosexuality to everyone except eachother. 2. In their social and psychological setting for that story, hiding what they had together was their only choice.

Now, in TKAA, Annette Benning and Julianne more aren't exposing their children to anything they don't already know as everyday motherfucking life. These kids grew up with 2 moms. And just like any child with 2 moms, or 2 dads, or whatever, this is their normality. It's not shocking. They're not clapping suction cups on the living room floor for christ's sake and making the kids watch and learn. They're not turning their son into a queen or their daughter into a fucking lumberjack.

No...if there's anything that can be said of 'The Kids Are Alright' it's that the 2 moms take a HUGE fucking risk by attempting to build some modicum of a relationship with the biological father with their children. Because in their case, and in the children's case...he's the donor. Not the father. But they allow him to come into the kids' lives to take on some sort of fatherly role. He shot his load into a cup and that was it. By allowing him into their lives they take the risk of ruining their family....resentment could build in the kids because mom and mom aren't straight. it could build between the moms because "Who's this fuckin guy and why do the kids enjoy him so much? We're the parents." There's a whole gamut of emotions and thoughts that I assume aren't all dealt with in the movie. And I haven't even seen the fucking thing.

No, if anything, instead of TKAA exposing children to anything, it's exposing them to a forward-thinking couple who happens to be gay allowing their children to know everything about themselves that they possibly can. It looks more like a message about finding out who we all are inside and out and where we get "those little things that make US."

FUCK YOUR FACE Andrea Peyser! (That's a fucking gay name anyway!)

Posted by: Carrie at July 20, 2010 11:37 AM

Carrie, I believe the new politically correct term for anointing proper respect to a male who is not present in the child's life, but donated the biological matter for the use of creating the child, is "Baby Batter Bequeather."

Also, I love you all for gay Moses.

A Murdoch-owned paper says bad shit about gay people? What a shock.

Apologies, it was TK who dinged Kirk Douglas.

If I understand correctly, this is the same website that employs Armond White, no?

Question answered.

HATE.

Hollywood is turning our children gay? Damn, I thought it was sex education in schools. Oh wait, that's what's turning them into promiscuous pregnant teenage sex machines. I get so confused. Maybe it's the lack of prayer in school that's turning them gay? No. I suppose she's right, it's Hollywood. First the Telletubbies and Spongebob indoctrinate them and then they see this movie and POW your kids are gay.

Every now and then, some thing like this catches me off guard and hits me so hard I feel winded. Chest-achingly, breathlessly, crying-inexplicably winded. My partner and I are recently, so very happily, married and we're now getting ready to start a family. Yup, we plan to be those smug lesbian moms bragging about their well-adjusted children. And we've all come so far, of course, and it's mostly just so easy, that I can (from a position of race and class privilege, of course, not to mention my handy Canadian citizenship) forget that crap like this gets written, and that the people who write it do so with fervent beliefs and so much machinery behind them.

And it just feels so very, very personal.

So, yeah. No incisive critique of Peyser here. Just a sad face. I think the "wolves who raised him" comment was possibly the worst. But it had some stiff competition.

I'm going to go look at pictures of puppies now.

Thanks, Sassafrass!

Why is it that straights are so afraid of someone turning them or their children gay? Is their grasp of their sexuality so fragile they can be turned. Gays are surrounded by straight influences 24/7 but none of these influences have any effect on them.