I watch a DVD today titled Twilight of the Golds. It was about a woman who found out that she was pregnant. Her husband, a doctor that does research on genes that can tell you all sorts of things about a child even at the early stages of pregnancy. When they found out she was pregnant they decided to do some test on the baby to see if there would be any abnormalities. Well in their mind there was one. It was determined that the child would be gay.
The movie centered around her decision on whether to have the baby or not. With plenty of input from her mother, father, husband and her gay brother. The movie was intersting to say the least.
I wonder what most parents would do if they could tell that their child was going to be gay if born? The whole notion of it is sad to me. On one hand I understand where their confusion came from. On the other hand it saddened me because them simply having to think aobut whether to have it or not said volumes in regards to how people see gay and lesbian people. Not that I didn't already know, but to think that someone would terminate a pregnancy based on that was sort of spooky.
What would you do?
The movie centered around her decision on whether to have the baby or not. With plenty of input from her mother, father, husband and her gay brother. The movie was intersting to say the least.
I wonder what most parents would do if they could tell that their child was going to be gay if born? The whole notion of it is sad to me. On one hand I understand where their confusion came from. On the other hand it saddened me because them simply having to think aobut whether to have it or not said volumes in regards to how people see gay and lesbian people. Not that I didn't already know, but to think that someone would terminate a pregnancy based on that was sort of spooky.
What would you do?
4 comments:
It is spooky, real spooky! I need to buy a thought provoking movie. maybe this is one...
Spooky and disturbing. People wear masks in society. Those calling themselves progressives, from what I have noticed, tend not to be very progressive at all. They are more hypocrites wanting to protect the status quo for various reasons. Then, maybe I am being harsh.
I would encourage a parent, especially a black parent, to keep their unborn gay kid. Being black or brown and of African descent in a largely Eurocentric society where white is always made to be right isn't easy. Being a black gay male (or black lesbian) isn't easy because one has to deal with prejudices from his own ethnic community, the larger/whiter gay community, and prejudices which makes it difficult to catch a cab (BTW: notice how white gay men always are able to get a cab). But, that "black parent" could be giving birth to the next Langston Hughes and James Baldwin, brothers willing to take a stand, challenge the status quo, and make the overall society better for everyone with their constant unwillingness to accept the very patterns and systems of domination and its ability to cause self-hate.
D, I don't know what I would do if you never existed....
Sounds like a good movie. I'll have to netflix it.
I would keep the baby. Being gay isn't like having a terminal illness or mental/physical disability that would make a baby helpless or have a shorter than average life.
Good question.
This does sound like an interesting film, nice review!
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