Based on the trailers I’ve seen, I’m guessing Ron Howard’s comedy The Dilemma won’t shatter any box-office records when it hits theaters in January. Read the full post.
Oct 11
2010
10:25 AM ET
'The Dilemma' is already one of the most important films of 2011
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I can still think what I want, right? No one is monitoring my thoughts yet, are they?
We’re here, we’re queer, get used to it.
That’s the only laugh I got out of that trailer. Lighten up people
I am sick to death of people using “gay” as an insult, it is ubiquitous and completely completely insidious. Good for Anderson Cooper and good for Universal.
Wait, doesn’t Anderson Cooper being too fearful to admit he’s gay send a MORE toxic message to kids than some movie trailer?
Wtf. His personal life is not your business or anyone else’s and has no bearing on this argument whatsoever. How can you seriously suggest that hate speech would be less toxic than someone that knows how to keep his private life to himself? You don’t see people “coming out” as straight, why the F should we have to come out as gay?
Context is important, but there’s no doubt using “gay” as a perjorative describing something/someone as having a male homosexual inclination can be found offensive. It’s like using “Jew” as a perjorative describing someone/something as cheap or irritatingly haggling (i.e., “jewing someone down”). So what if the word has been appropriated by gays – they took what was a slur and made it an acceptable description. Don’t try to pass it off as free speech – that doesn’t make it any less offensive when it’s clearly being used as an ad hominum…
I agree with you completely. I can’t stand this BS lately where people are trying to validate their stupid remarks with the free speech argument. Hate speech is not free speech, it’s got a price. Besides, if anyone bothered to pay attention, Anderson didn’t say squat about the film itself, he was remarking on the fact that there really is a lot of hate speech embedded in our everyday language, whether it’s directed at gay people or any other group.
Did everyone forget that the word gay once mean happy? The word for gay men is homosexual I believe just like the word for gay women is Lesbian. Gay has more than one meaning just like queer does. If I say “Well that was very queer” would you get offended? No. Because queer means weird. That word doesn’t specifcally apply to the gay community just like Gay doesn’t only apply to them either. If he said in the trailer that he didn’t mean homosexual gay then why are we having this argument? Why is it a big deal if it’s clearly stated in the trailer that he didn’t mean it in an offensive way. I just dont’ understand. Now we can’t use a word that long before homosexuality was publicly acknowledged mean happy or in other definitions means over the top and silly? Movies will have to go silent again if we take out everything that is offense. He didn’t mean it in that way so stop trying to make it sound like he did. Looks like we are making mountains out of mole hills.
First, let me say I have not seen the clip that this article is referencing, so let me make a general point on the issue. When a person says a “thing” is so gay, as in Vince Vaughn’s character’s reference to electric cars, is that a negative or threatening thing to say, really?
If you believe it does, then does it also mean that if I am looking at some clothing and I make the comment that it is too Country Western looking, or too 80’s looking then that means I am being just as negative or threatening to cowboys or people that like 80’s fashion???
I think what it may mean is that I don’t want to adorn myself in something (clothing, a club or an electric automobile, etc…) that may associate me to a certain taste, style or life style that I don’t wish to have. Isn’t that my choice? Just like it is your choice to express yourself in a way you want?
Remember, it isn’t the word that has power, it the emotion that you allow to take in response to it. I believe Lenny Bruce said something similar.
Since when did gay people decide to be gay and harassed?
This column is gay, i.e. lame as s**t. Being part of the PC Police is not a good thing to be and, sorry to inform you, won’t make us better people or save any lives.
Eliminating hateful language would absolutely make us better people and save lives. Have you not been watching the news? Have you not seen the children who have been cornered into suicide because of people validating their hateful existence, as you are here? The latest news is not the start of this phenomenon, young kids have been killing themselves for bullying/gay-bashing they receive from their peers long before the recent social movement. Do you even know how many of them might have been saved if their peers weren’t under the mistaken impression that it’s “cool” to treat each other that way? Being a decent human being has nothing to do with being politically correct.
I think alot of these kinds of comments, “That’s gay,” “That’s retarded,” or even when friends call each other sluts or bitches, are all more teen/young adult phrases to use. I don’t often see older people using these phrases. I think maybe the younger generation relates this way to one another and then once they get older they realize how offensive these statements could be. I don’t think all teens/young adults talk this way but a lot do use these words without really thinking of teh negative connotations. But as Maya Angelou said, “When you know better, you do better.”
Where was the controversy over “The Hangover”? Bradley Cooper’s character paging “Dr. F****t” a couple of times wasn’t a big deal a couple of years ago. I wish it had been, though. As much as I really enjoy the film, and as much as I love Cooper, that line always makes me stop and just grimace. It’s so unncessary and actually makes me feel badly.