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The --"Dad, You Should Sit and Stew with This"-- Campaign

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YaadPyar:
Ummmm - yeah.  Tricky stuff.  What NOT to do?  Show him your "I think it moved" post.   

:o ;D :o ;D

delalluvia:

--- Quote from: Impish on April 09, 2006, 07:51:33 pm ---What about appealing to his sense of masculinity?  Something like "I'm amazed that you're afraid of a movie" or in a light-hearted way "stop being such a wuss: it's only a movie!"

Or telling others in his earshot similar things... "my Dad is scared of a movie, can you believe it?"

Don't know you or your Dad of course, and such a tactic wouldn't work at all for some.  Still, there are others who can deal with teasing of this sort....

Just a thought.

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These are great riposts to your dad's oh-so-passive-aggressive jabs about BBM.  He can poke fun at the movie - and at you subtly - and you can do it right back.

But all in the same kind of 'fun' he's feeding to you, right?

littledarlin:
i think you should challenge him.  the next time he makes a joke about it, call him on it, and challenge him to watch it.  if your dad is anything like half the guys in my family, that's all it takes.  even if they wanted to watch it, they never would, all they need is an excuse.  i.e. my girlfriend dragged me, i didn't know what it was about, i put it the wrong dvd, etc etc

i'm going to convince my dad to watch it, he's the same way.  he watches movies all the time, and even has decent taste, but the very thought of watching bbm doesn't register with him.  i'm just waiting for him to bring it up, so i can do as i suggested above.  i am gay though, and my dad knows it, but he is not ok with it.  i really think the film can change peoples minds when they're like that.  they just automatically fear what they don't understand, and seeing a movie made by straight people, with straight people, will ease the blow to their ignorance. 

anyway, good luck, and i think it's great you're doing this.  it's guys like you that restore my faith in the straight male population   :)

starboardlight:
I wonder if it might help to relate the relationship between him and your mom to that of Ennis and Jack. Drop a comment like, "seeing how much Jack was willing to give to Ennis, kinda made me think of how you and mom have really loved each other." or something like that. Maybe the idea that it's about love, not just about "faggots" will intrigue him.

starboardlight:

--- Quote from: TheStudDuck on April 09, 2006, 07:30:50 pm ---It's actually really a suicide mission... I mean, it seems pretty hopeless that I will ever get him to watch it.  An update, however, my mother let me know that yesterday he expressed interest in seeing Master and Commander again -- so I may put my entire movie collection on hold to him and just not let him watch anything until Brokeback Mountain is watched.  "You want to watch Master and Commander, eh?  I'll tell you what, you watch Brokeback Mountain and you can watch Master and Commander again.  Muahahaha."

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ha ha. or maybe just hand him the Master and Commander box with the BBM disc inside. "Oops, did I put that there by mistake?"

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