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So apparently there’s a new viral video on the Internet. It’s an animated short film about a boy’s heart literally following “the guy of his dreams”. The liberals of course are crooning over how “sweet”, and “progressive” it is. Thoughts?
 
Heavy sigh…

Some days it’s just not worth chewing through the leather straps to break out of the basement.

Haven’t seen it, don’t really want to.
 
I can’t comment because I haven’t seen it; with that being said, it sounds like it’s worth missing. 😛
 
Crusaderbear said:
Heavy sigh…

Some days it’s just not worth chewing through the leather straps to break out of the basement.

Haven’t seen it, don’t really want to.
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Don’t want that rot in my mind either.

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I remember being followed around by a young boy back in middle school. At that time I though he was gay since he seemed to have a crush on me. Kind of made me uncomfortable. Reminds me of the boy in the video (which is very well produced BTW).

Later in life, I caught up with him and he is quite not gay at all. We actually talked about it and thought it was funny.

I also remember being in a theatre production with a good buddy. Everyone thought we were gay lovers because we were friends. We were cluesless as to how the gay culture is very much the norm in theatre. Once they all found out we were not gay, then the girls started being interested in us to our relief.

Anyway, my point and reaction (yes I watched the video) is that it seeks to label kids at an age where they are not fully developed. This does more harm than good for their development.

Have you read what neurologists are saying about sexual development and how it is not fully formed until late teens or early twenties even? So that means the young boy in the film is in a state of development. His sexuality is still unformed. That may be why he is feeling attracted to the other boy. Who knows? Teenagers are incomplete, still in development, like my friend from middle school.

But what the film seeks to do is put a LBGTQ label on him. I think that is wrong on all levels and does harm.

How about we say instead that he is young and developing and maybe having feelings of attraction that may go away later. Who knows. But don’t label the kid who is in flux. For all you know the kid is straight (or would be without being labeled) and the label will cause him more harm. there is no test for being LBGTQ. So by labeling him you are putting an expectation and set of assumptions on him that may actually affect his behavior and his development. That is an in-appropriate label for someone so young.

As far as I know what I am saying is medically sound and is not based on any religious teaching etc.

What we are dealing with is that some people want to publicly show that they are sensitive. Their motives are principally concerned with fostering their own image as being cool, sensitive as apposed to having the negative qualities of being bigoted, full-of-hate, etc. I doubt that their real concern is with the young boy being portrayed in the video. If they truly cared about him more than their own image, they would consider the young boys needs and how labeling someone at such a young age and in a state of flux is harmful to him.
 
It’s sad.
I like short stories, and am seeing a lot of them now with homosexual themes. It’s annoying.

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Frankenfurter said:
But what the film seeks to do is put a LBGTQ label on him. I think that is wrong on all levels and does harm.
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As a man who grew up attracted to both girls and boys, I disagree. I don’t see the movie as putting a label on anyone. It doesn’t, for instance, claim that he’s not going to fall in love with a girl the next day, or the next week – it just depicts him falling in love with a boy today. I have concerns about this type of thing being normalized, like you do, but my predominant experience of watching the film was, “Awwww, that’s what it was like to be me.”

The Christian message is not that the boy’s feelings for the other boy are terrible or perverse or anything like that. The Christian message is that it’s not good for either boy if the relationship attempts to mimic a marriage relationship, or if the relationship involves sex.

Here’s what I would love to see: a video exactly like that one, except that the two boys try to have their hearts merge, only to find that it makes them confused and unhappy. Then they give each other a hug and try to find a new framework for their friendship. The film ends with them playing catch, or flying a kite together, or something – having found that romance will take them nowhere, but friendship will take them wonderful places.

Catholic movie producers, make it happen!!!
 
giuseppe96 said:
So apparently there’s a new viral video on the Internet. It’s an animated short film about a boy’s heart literally following “the guy of his dreams”. The liberals of course are crooning over how “sweet”, and “progressive” it is. Thoughts?
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It is sweet. It may be propaganda, but it is emotionally accurate propaganda. It depicts the experience of being a boy attracted to another boy in a way that will help other people understand what it’s like. I don’t think that’s an entirely bad thing. But I do think it whitewashes a lot of darkness and confusion, in the attempt to promote all things gay.
 
Prodigal_Son said:
As a man who grew up attracted to both girls and boys, I disagree. I don’t see the movie as putting a label on anyone. It doesn’t, for instance, claim that he’s not going to fall in love with a girl the next day, or the next week – it just depicts him falling in love with a boy today. I have concerns about this type of thing being normalized, like you do, but my predominant experience of watching the film was, “Awwww, that’s what it was like to be me.”

The Christian message is not that the boy’s feelings for the other boy are terrible or perverse or anything like that. The Christian message is that it’s not good for either boy if the relationship attempts to mimic a marriage relationship, or if the relationship involves sex.

Here’s what I would love to see: a video exactly like that one, except that the two boys try to have their hearts merge, only to find that it makes them confused and unhappy. Then they give each other a hug and try to find a new framework for their friendship. The film ends with them playing catch, or flying a kite together, or something – having found that romance will take them nowhere, but friendship will take them wonderful places.

Catholic movie producers, make it happen!!!
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I see what you mean. I was reacting to the way that the producers introduced their film actually in their YouTube videos. The way that they used terms and labels to describe the kid as being an LGBT kid. The labels are not used in the film itself though as you rightfully point out.
 
Mark 9:42
“Whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in me to sin, it would be better for him if a great millstone were hung round his neck and he were thrown into the sea."
 
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