A hypothetical

[greatestislove]

Here is a hypothetical question.  In the following dialogue pretend you are the mother and your child is the daughter.

Mother: Hey daughter, do you want to sit down and watch this movie with me?
12 year old girl:  What is it? 
Mother: It is a rated R film about gay cowboys who cheat on their wives.
12 year old girl: Why is it rated R?
Mother: Mild

Comments

[momofcandc]

I would say 'A'. I would not make my child feel bad about not wanting to do something that made her uncomfortable.

[merlyn4401]

Shoulda posted this in -"booju_snark" :p

A, obviously.

[merlyn4401]

I fail at html. booju_snark

[cynica]

??

[kitashla]

A.

Honestly, when I was a kid, I saw a lot of movies with my dad and my dad's side of the family that had sex scenes in it. It made me all kinds of uncomfortable. I was too embarrassed to watch the screen in case somebody thought I was too interested and I was afraid not to look at the screen because I didn't want anyone to think I was embarrassed.

So, I would have begged off too.

[cynica]

D. What do you mean "other people"? Are you comfortable around YOURSELF having sex, you little slut?

[mzvanessa]

woo.. you're really going for that mom of the year award huh?

[cynica]

Millennium, baby!

[mzvanessa]

WOOT!!

[amazonvera]

You know, most of us get booju snark on our friends pages. I think fewer people would miss out on your "cleverness" than you think if you posted it there.

[greatestislove]

i wanted real answers.

[amazonvera]

Real asnwers to a question snarking a previous post.

Well, the real answer would be A except it's a conversation that would never take place, and it also bears no relevance to the Brokeback post since no one in that situation ever said that it wasn't the homosexuality that bothered them, while the child in your scenario did. Now if I overheard a kid being asked "Do you want to see Brokeback Mountain?" by a friend and she responded "Ew, gross, no," I certainly would be concerned about a homophobic issue, since teenage girls don't often respond to offers to see hot young actors in love scenes by saying "Ew, gross" as long as it's not with their parents (the offer to watch it with their mother being the other weird part of the post).

[greatestislove]

it isn't a SNARK....it is INSPIRED by a previous post...sure. But it isn't a snark.