The one with the gay movies, genes and SUPERBOY!

Went to catch C.R.A.Z.Y (henceforth know as CRAZY) and twas pretty good. That's one thing I really like about foreign flims. The distributors tend to bring in only the good ones.

Another thing is that there is often a lack of special visual effects and computer generated chase sequences and such. And that often forces the show to actually have a story (*gasp!*) and focus on character development and not some mindless car chase.

This particular movie was cool. I'm not going to give major spoilers in case some of you guys still want to catch it.

However there was one thing about the show that I wanted to talk about, as such spoiler ahead.


*SPOILERS START* (highlight to read)

The shows about a guy who finds out he's gay. He's father is not particularly pleased about it and the show goes on about how their lives go on and the father eventually accepting his son for who he is. More importantly, it shows how to guy tries so hard to deny his own sexuality but eventually accepts it as well.

*SPOILERS END*


What's interesting is that just days after I do a post on gay comic superheros, I catch a movie about a gay. (I swear I had no idea it was about a gay.) Some higher power indicating I should be gay? :P

Then after the show, I saw not 1 but 3 gays (not confirmed, but 1 looked like a transexual and the other 2 were holding on to each other) on the way home.

So maybe I would want to take the comment back about Singaporeans not being able to handle gays. There are comic books with gay superheros in them in the NATIONAL LIBRARY, a movie about a gay being shown and gays walking around openly. Maybe it was I who was the closed minded one.

Because despite everything, when I saw the gays, my first thought was "Oh bloody hell, more faggots!" Desperately ashamed of myself now. Despite preaching about open mindedness in my previous post, I was still unable to shake it away from myself. I still had some deep distrust(?) and hatred(?) towards them. I have to constantly and conciously remind myself that they are just like me, human beings.

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With all these trends about gays suddenly coming into my life, I did wonder if it was a sign I should turn gay. Which lead to further thoughts. How much of it is in the upbringing and how much of it is in the genes? Would I be able to turn gay now if I wanted to? Somehow the taught of "doing" it to a guy is just such a total turn off to me. And from what I know, it's the same for gays. The thought of doing it to a girl just turns them off.

So is it possible for a guy to just turn gay and a gay to just turn back to straight? How much is it due to the genes.

Read another comic the other day. This one was showcasing the Teen Titans which included the new Superboy. He was a clone and then he discovered that 50% of the genes was from Superman and the other 50% was from Lex Luthor (villian extraordinaire). It got him worried. He was worried that one day, the Lex Luthor genes will cause him to go rouge and make him hurt people and generally go bad. He desperately wanted to avoid that issue and didn't want to believe it. I'm not sure how he deals with it in the end as was left unsaid.

So how much of one's behaviour is down to genes and how much of it is down to upbringing? Would a clone of Hitler turn out to be the same dictator? Or would a caring family, the lack of WWI and other events cause him to be the artist that he hoped to be?

Something to ponder on I hope.

A long 6 year wait?