Short film: what if "gay" and "straight" were switched?

[TruckOSaurus]

KylieDog said:

TruckOSaurus said:

If you're talking about your hand-holding point before it's nitpicking at best. Yes girls holding hands isn't frowned upon but two boys holding hands is looked down on so the fact that people in that alternate world consider boys and girls holding hands as a sign of being hetero fits perfectly because it mirrors an actual reaction from reality.

It isn't nickpicking, is a clear double standard which heavily weakens the point the movie is trying to make, it could have avoided this by having the main character be a boy where such a thing is uncommon.  It also tries to do a gender role swap at dinner for some reason which just adds more confusion and seems to imply being gay makes you automatically bad at sports.

The film had a nice idea but the execution is horrible.

I agree, there are some things that could have been better. They should have went all the way and make it so same-sex couples were the only way to procreate. To me, what's important is that they did manage to show how it is to live in a world where your sexuality is enough for people to hate you without good reason and present it from a point of view that straight people can identify with more easily.