Despite my female-sounding IMDb username, I am in fact male. A bisexual man.
I started watching this short film out of curiosity, as it had been recommended by someone on an LGBT web forum. What I saw left me angry.
In the opening cafe scene, Lamar is (very clumsily and directly) trying to coax his old high-school friend Zach (who is married to a woman) into admitting that he is bisexual and that he is attracted to Lamar. Note here that Lamar isn't trying to FIND OUT whether Zach is into him: he's far too (if you'll pardon the pun) cocksure for that - he's CERTAIN that Zach must secretly be into him - an assumption apparently based purely on the gargantuan dimensions of his own penis. His arrogance is astounding!
Far worse than this, though, is his physical behaviour. 6 minutes into the scene (which, let's not forget, takes place in a busy cafe), in order to confirm his suspicion that Zach has an erection, Lamar makes a completely unprovoked, unasked-for, non-consensual grab at Zach's crotch.
And it doesn't stop there. At the 9 minute mark - having been told firmly and repeatedly by Zach "I am not making out with you man - no way!" - Lamar leans in, and with Zach still protesting that he DOESN'T want this, he grabs Zach by the neck and tries to force him into a kiss. Bizarrely, none of the cafe's other customers pay the slightest attention to this overtly non-consensual sexual advance. Lamar then stares into Zach's eyes and says "My place or yours?" - at which point, Zach is seen to stop fighting the inevitable: he and Lamar are going to have sex, whether he feels comfortable about it or not.
Honestly, I have seen Gay porn shoots with a better sense of fundamental morality and respect for the principle of consent than is displayed in this piece of ill-written crap. Its message - that seduction is the imposition of one person's will over another, regardless of their wishes - is downright dangerous. If anyone were ever to try Lamar's behaviour on me, they'd be very lucky not to end up in a police station, facing a sexual assault charge. Learn the lesson, film-makers! When it comes to sex, consent is EVERYTHING. End of.
I started watching this short film out of curiosity, as it had been recommended by someone on an LGBT web forum. What I saw left me angry.
In the opening cafe scene, Lamar is (very clumsily and directly) trying to coax his old high-school friend Zach (who is married to a woman) into admitting that he is bisexual and that he is attracted to Lamar. Note here that Lamar isn't trying to FIND OUT whether Zach is into him: he's far too (if you'll pardon the pun) cocksure for that - he's CERTAIN that Zach must secretly be into him - an assumption apparently based purely on the gargantuan dimensions of his own penis. His arrogance is astounding!
Far worse than this, though, is his physical behaviour. 6 minutes into the scene (which, let's not forget, takes place in a busy cafe), in order to confirm his suspicion that Zach has an erection, Lamar makes a completely unprovoked, unasked-for, non-consensual grab at Zach's crotch.
And it doesn't stop there. At the 9 minute mark - having been told firmly and repeatedly by Zach "I am not making out with you man - no way!" - Lamar leans in, and with Zach still protesting that he DOESN'T want this, he grabs Zach by the neck and tries to force him into a kiss. Bizarrely, none of the cafe's other customers pay the slightest attention to this overtly non-consensual sexual advance. Lamar then stares into Zach's eyes and says "My place or yours?" - at which point, Zach is seen to stop fighting the inevitable: he and Lamar are going to have sex, whether he feels comfortable about it or not.
Honestly, I have seen Gay porn shoots with a better sense of fundamental morality and respect for the principle of consent than is displayed in this piece of ill-written crap. Its message - that seduction is the imposition of one person's will over another, regardless of their wishes - is downright dangerous. If anyone were ever to try Lamar's behaviour on me, they'd be very lucky not to end up in a police station, facing a sexual assault charge. Learn the lesson, film-makers! When it comes to sex, consent is EVERYTHING. End of.