I think they ruined the film by the homophobia shown by the scriptwriters in the scene where Travolta asks Kirstie Alley
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beautifulmachine — 14 years ago(January 06, 2012 08:09 PM)
My sister is in the LGBT community and she thought the line was funny.
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Guamley — 12 years ago(March 01, 2014 12:10 PM)
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?
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Lost_Woods87 — 12 years ago(March 17, 2014 08:18 PM)
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
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Jack2979 — 11 years ago(May 03, 2014 02:19 AM)
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.
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audiosane — 11 years ago(May 17, 2014 10:24 AM)
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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toking65000 — 11 years ago(August 28, 2014 02:59 AM)
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.
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CptHowdy87 — 9 years ago(May 27, 2016 10:01 PM)
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.
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AdrianLePier — 10 years ago(March 24, 2016 07:22 AM)
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.