It may have been insulting, but IRL this is how people talk. The media, specifically TV and the Internet, will have people believe that everyone has become so enlightened/PC that they don't say certain things anymorebut on the street, people aren't polite.

I didn't like the transphobic scene in Miss Doubtfire, where the son catches Doubtfire peeing standing up and he tried to physically attack her. If she had a penis and was a pre-op trans woman that was HER OWN business, the little $hit boy shouldn't have have come in on her while she was peeing.
That to me sent a bad message that if a woman is trans and or in the process of transitioning from male to female, she's automatically a villain and should be thrown out of the house.
Please tell me you're just kidding

You gotta remember this movie was in 1989, at that time being gay was still looked at as devious by a lot of and ppl portrayed gays as the "bad ppl" you don't wnna be.
I didn't like the transphobic scene in Miss Doubtfire, where the son catches Doubtfire peeing standing up and he tried to physically attack her. If she had a penis and was a pre-op trans woman that was HER OWN business, the little $hit boy shouldn't have have come in on her while she was peeing.
That to me sent a bad message that if a woman is trans and or in the process of transitioning from male to female, she's automatically a villain and should be thrown out of the house.
Create a society in which you would like to live, not knowing what you're going to come into it as.

I know! I love Three's Company but that show really portrays being gay in a bad light.
Create a society in which you would like to live, not knowing what you're going to come into it as.

Everyone everywhere should be more enlightened than we are, but we're not. That's just life, but at least we got better.
A lot of movies from the 80s are insensitive by today's standards. I find it interesting the kind of things people said or did back then without thinking twice.
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Even back in 1989 we should have been more enlightened.
I realize that I am over 7 years late, but OH SHUT THE EFF UP! I just watched this movie earlier and I just thought to myself "I know someone is going to bitch about John's lesbo comment either calling him a bigot or a homophobe when the comment was neither" Big fat surprise here it is.
In 89 there were a lot less PC crybaby douchebags - too bad I was 9 at the time and didn't get to fully appreciate living in a time when people didn't whine about everything. Now as an adult I have to put up with people being called bigots/homophobes if they are sick and tired of hearing gay people bitch about everything all the way down to why there isn't a lesbian Disney princess.
Ugh.
I really like your car Mrs. Larusso!

Oh, I'm sorry. Have I offended you?

Spoken like a true white heterosexual man.
Create a society in which you would like to live, not knowing what you're going to come into it as.

Getting so tired of the PC crap! Pretty soon we won't even have freedom of speech unless we agree with everything everyone has to say!

Oh boo hoo. So you got insulted by a comment but this is america and everyone can get offended or make offensive comments. Stop trying to throw a pity party just because you're lesbian and got offended. There are plenty of non-PC things in this movie and I was offended when they made the comments about bulimia, sending the message that its not a serious disorder requiring comfort and medical attention since I myself was bulimic but guess what, I GOT OVER IT. Why? IT'S A beep MOVIE

Because straight people consider it insulting to be perceived as gay. Why is that so hard to understand? Nothing homophobic about that. Would a black or white person who are mistaken for the other race be considered racist if they got insulted?

He said it because of a lot gay women use sperm donors because they obviously cannot conceive a child with their partner.
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My sister is in the LGBT community and she thought the line was funny.
The point is that it was an inappropriate question to ask a complete stranger, not that assuming she was a lesbian was a negative issue.

the OP is a PC retard,how original.
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this is not a movie for homos bot for normal cool peopel wiutha sense of humor
And for people who don't know how to type, apparently.

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I thought her reaction to it was funny.

Just because a female gets pregnant without actually having sex (IVF-which, as a devout Catholic I believe is immoral), does NOT mean Molly is a lesbian.
I would've throttled him but good!
True it would've been better if she had sex with a husband (male).

Heehee, I don't think she slapped him, she just made a (very funny) horrified face. I got the feeling that she was more appalled at the unkind word "Lesbo" than the idea of being considered one.
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There usually a political agenda associated with all forms of entertainment. It's no accident that movies that are, say, pro-gay or anti-religion, get special consideration and lots of backing in advertisement revenue. Hollywood does have an agenda and they push it hard, and subliminally, might I add. The intelligent are always wary, my friend. ALWAYS WARY
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That's giving out the message that gay is bad.
It is bad.

Someone else put up a post about this movie trying to push a pro-life agenda and now we're talking about homophobia. Why are some people determined to believe there has be some hidden political agenda being pushed in every Hollywood movie? The entertainment industry is supposed to exist for the purpose of ENTERTAINMENT, not to be a role model. If people really look to movie characters and Hollywood types to be examples of good moral character and judgment, that's not what I call very smart.

I remember when I saw the film with my dad and Travolta said that line. The way Mollie responded caused my dad to laugh. I guess the shocked look on her face was funny.

To me, homopPHOBIA in this movie would have been something like "You a lesbian? get out of my cab!"
She was probably in too much pain to snap back at him
Come to think of it MOM (Olympia Dukakis's Character)made a crack about lesbians: When told that Mollie was artifically incem., she says "This is the act of a woman who is very ugly or a lesbian this is not the act of a beautiful, intelligent girl who could have anyone she wants!"
I am surprised, OP didn't catch that.
You're laborers, you're supposed to be laboring! That's what you get for not having an education!!