You didn’t. It really doesn’t have much to offer adults. That said, the first 10 minutes are the worst of the film.

*I tend to be more harsher when women do these shameful things.

I see. I’ll admit I didn’t actually watch ParaNorman. I just watched a clip of Norman calming Aggie down on YouTube when I was a preteen. I’m just more harsher towards women projecting those issues.

It’s not only the women, but they tend to do it more visibly. I should have included a male example for inclusivity’s sake.

Remember the film ParaNorman? The film runs relatively ordinary, with an ordinary message about “people who have major differences aren’t necessarily bad and shouldn’t be condemned”, since the main character can talk to ghosts and his ancestor was burned as a witch for doing the same. Then, at the very end of the film, the clueless teenage boy that the older sister has been futilely chasing the entire film reveals that he has a boyfriend, even though it’s irrelevant to the story and his character. This is calculated to coincide with the “don’t hate people for being different” message to create a false equivalency; either you accept his homosexuality wholeheartedly or you’re on the side of the bigots who killed an innocent girl after accusing her of witchcraft.

I’ve seen this trick used many times. It works by framing wokeness as heroic and kind, and shaming those who don’t get with the program as evil. Wokeness relies heavily on deceit and bullying tactics like this because it requires people to accept things that would otherwise be unacceptable, and many of the purveyors of wokeness know it well.

Why is it always the women who project those issues?

This sort of thing has been going on for several years in books and movies intended for children. Usually, homosexuality or the homosexual character is unrelated or irrelevant to the plot, but the narrative has to be interrupted to mention that a given character is homosexual or has an irrelevant homosexual relative, or acts like homosexuality is normal, often for no reason other than to make homosexuality more visible. It usually is paired with a tacit threat; the culture has declared that homosexuality is normal and cool and always has been, so anyone who thinks that your two lovey-dovey, slobbering moms aren’t the coolest must obviously hate families, and anyone who doesn’t approve of the heroine’s choice to stop dating men and start dating other women is on the villainous side of history, so shame on you for thinking that it might be disgusting or weird.

Usually, creators do this intentionally to trick children through example and peer pressure, and they usually smuggle it into something ordinary and unassuming when they hope adults aren’t looking closely enough to notice it. As a viewer, I don’t appreciate these tactics because I feel like I’m being tricked, and I’m especially worried for impressionable children who accept everything they see because they don’t fully understand what makes something right or wrong other than what people tell them.

Unless, of course, the film might be showing that having homosexual parents can come with challenges because people in homosexual relationships, especially women, tend to be emotionally unstable and project those issues onto their children, if not each other. The review suggested something like that might be the case.

Nothing surprises me anymore.