This review and the comment thread below are an exchange between the author and me about the recent film The Kids Are All Right. The film has not come to my area yet and I am not sure I can go see it. But that doesn’t keep me from having an opinion about it of course. I would love to see a film where one’s lesbian identity isn’t at issue or called into question at all but where the central character’s being a lesbian is just one piece of her world. Some of us actually live that way and are capable of being productive and positive human beings and citizens. I think this film is dangerous as a mainstream image for a variety of reasons. But I appreciate the reviewer’s POV and feel like she talked me off the ledge.