The Failure Of “Bros”: Why Don’t Minorities Accept The Right Of Majorities To Feel Like They Do?
OCTOBER 4, 2022 / JACK MARSHALL
Gee, what a shocking development! Non-gay audiences haven’t flocked to see a romantic comedy that advertises itself like that.
I’m a movie fan. I have lots of gay friends, family members and associates: I worked in the theater for decades. I respect them all; I support their right to live and love and marry whomever they please; I want them to be treated like any other law-abiding Americans in all things, and regard discrimination and bias against them as despicable and unconscionable.
But I don’t enjoy watching gay sex and related activities, and I have every right to feel that way. I would no more pay, or take time out of my sock drawer duties, to see “Bros” than I would watch an NFL game, or attend a one-man show by Alec Baldwin. So sue me. But I think there are millions of Americans with similar tastes, and they span the generations.
Apparently the makers of “Bros” convinced themselves that non-gay (I will say “cis” when there is a loaded gun at my head and not before) Americans, who are, believe it or not, the majority would go to see a romantic comedy about gays because they have been told that they should, and are bigots if the don’t comply. Non-gay America replied, “Bite me!,” and good for them. MORE AT