TP2000
Well-Known Member
I think the key difference there is that 99% of the children in the audience have a mother and father (even if some are only being raised by one parent by the time they are old enough to go to the movies). A child knows that children have mothers and fathers instinctually. And not because they were taught that specifically, but because themselves and every other child they know was created the same way, by a woman and a man who are a mother and father. As the old Western Airlines ad used to say... It's The Only Way To Fly.
I say that as someone who is dear friends with a gay couple out in Palm Springs who had two wonderful sons via surrogacy, long before it was even a thing that people talked about. They had to go to a special clinic up in Portland, which was the only one at the time on the West Coast that offered such a service to a gay couple. But that couple knows that they are a very rare minority, and they are very thankful for the support they've received from friends and family over the years. And the stories they could tell about dealing with the public school system in the otherwise liberal Coachella Valley are incredible.
A child sitting in a movie theater in 2023 has less than a tiny, tiny chance of being a surrogate child with two Lesbian moms or two gay dads. So there's no need to force the issue on the 99.5% of the rest of the audience who wants to wait to discuss sexuality and sex with their children at the time that is most appropriate for their own family's culture and religion and value system.
And a PG rated cartoon movie from Walt Disney Animation doesn't seem like the right time or place for most parents, which probably helps explain the horrendous box office for Strange World. (Plus the fact the movie was apparently not very good.)
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