Do gay people support the X-men movie because it almost relates directly to the life of a homosexual?

Question

Well aside from the "powers". Those who are "gifted" are often rejected by their family, they often feel isolated and alone. Society thinks their a menace, freaks. I saw the movie and the thought came upon me.


In the last movie they found a cure for the mutants, some mutants wanted the cure....almost like if they found a cure for homosexuality, some folks will take it.

Have you ever thought of it in this way?

Answer 1

answered this somewhere else, but here it is again, my stance on things:

I actually don't believe that we are born with a predetermined sexual orientation. There are too many people who find their sexual preferences changing over time for this to be true, in my opinion.

I do believe, however, that you don't per se CHOOSE/LEARN to be gay. You don't wake up one day and say "Geez, I think I'll eschew women and go for men instead." But just because you didn't choose it doesn't mean it's biologically a part of you, you know? It's not something you can change, I feel. Take this example, for instance- you are a cat lover. You just love your pet kitties. Never been a dog person, thanks. You just know for sure that you wouldn't ever want to own a dog. So, someone says- you choose to love cats. Well, no, you reply, not really. I mean, I just like cats. I've always been that way. Does that mean, then, that there is a cat-loving gene in your body? Of course not. It means that this is a preference in your mind, one that you cannot consciously change, but is not innate, either.

I think that human sexuality is immensely more complex than the labels we have today like gay and straight. I also believe that love is gender blind and a straight man can find himself falling in love with another man, still completely attracted to women and utterly not attracted to men, but emotionally and sexually satisfied with that one man he loves. Our sexual desires come from our personalities, our past experiences, our childhoods, socialization, and more. It's a heady, deliciously messy mix of everything, and it gives us all that's wonderful about our sexuality today, so diverse.

That's my stance on things. I know that a lot of gay/bisexual people claim they are born that way, and I understand why they feel that way. For them, the claim feels true. In my opinion, a lot of straight people call it a choice so they don't have to ask hard questions about God (creating that which He supposedly hates?) and their source of intolerance (how can you hate something that someone never chose to be, like skin color, or, in this case, sexual orientation?). Like I said, I think it's neither, but I don't mind people claiming they were born gay. Just as long as they don't say that all gay people were born gay, or all straight people were born straight, etc., etc.- until they have scientific proof to back that up.

You ask, "Is being gay unnatural?". Well, it depends on what you define as natural. If 'natural' is about what happens in nature, then of course homosexuality is natural. The mere fact that it happens means it is natural. And indeed, there are many animals who engage in homosexual activity, so it's present in the animal kingdom, as well. How would the world keep on going if everyone turned gay? Well, think about it- we have new methods like sperm donation, surrogate motherhood, and in-vitro fertilization to allow people to procreate without ever having to have sex with one another. Just because you are gay doesn't mean you stop your bloodline right there! Is it unnatural to do things a different way, as I've shown? Well, a lot of things we do is "unnatural"- we don't live in caves, but houses, we clothe ourselves, and so on. So give it some thought.

Hope that helps.

Answer 2

I think it's a good example of the gay life, how some teens struggle to deal with the feelings, same thing with the people in the movie, teens struggle to deal with their own powers that they are afraid to tell their family, their friends.

They show a good example in X2, where Bobby tells his Mom and Dad that he is able to freeze stuff with his hand, and her mother replying "Can you try not being a mutant?" It was hard for their family to accept it, and this is a good movie to display how crazy it is for gays to be accepted in society.

Answer 3

it is a bit interesting but the movies themselves are based upon the comic book series so any relation to current "pop" culture is purely coincidental (besides the 3rd one being atrocious). Nice twist though.
Atleast mention the skin-tight costumes and the makeup in the movies though. That's any gay man's fantasy.

Answer 4

Of course I've thought of it in this way. It gets mentioned in reviews all the time--not just of this movie, but of X-men material in general, and superpower stories in even more general.

If this thought is original with you: Congrats on being right there with an awful lot of pro critics.

Answer 5

I see a lot of similarities, since you mention them. However, in many ways, the same things apply to teenagers in general, the target market.

Answer 6

sure. there is definately a gay-theme in the background of this movie. And it's not surprisng seeing how the director, Bryan Singer is gay!

Answer 7

I like the x men cause I grew up watching the show. I do see how it relates to me and my friends but we like it cause of the action plus the PHOENIX looks hott

Answer 8

You can use these same themes to apply to *anything* that makes people feel "different" - their race, gender, sexual orientation, whatever. That's why these movies are so popular, because they address universal themes that everyone can relate to, not just one particular group.

Answer 9

Many people believe that series relates very well to glbt issues.