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And this is why every single straight man alive will never see this film? If you were reaching any farther, you'd hurt your back.
Somehow, being queer hasn't stopped me from seeing a few thousand movies about the joys of heterosexual love -- something I have total comfort with AND total lack of interest in.
It's a movie. I don't have any interest in being an astronaut, the Devil, a 1950s housewife, Hannibal Lecter, President of the Unted States, a giant radioactive dinosaur, or a gazillion other things I could name. But I've seen movies about all of them. Who sees only films that are about people just like them?
Besides that, how many straight men have to write testimonials in this letter column before you accept that your, shall we say, aesthetic prejudices aren't shared by all straight men?
We get it: you want all straight men to not be interested in the lives of gay men. It's not true, you have no real-world reason for believing it's true, but you'll never stop saying it is true. Fine. Straight men are still going to see this film, anyway, you can go on pretending otherwise, and everybody's happy.
