Oh no, gay guys

Another one of those crazy American lawsuit stories.

A 12 year old girl and her grandparents are seeking $500,000 damages for psychological distress after being shown the movie “Brokeback Mountain” at school.

Now, granted, the teacher showing a class of 12 year olds an R-rated movie (MA in Australia I think?) deserves a good kick up the arse, like being fired, but the lawsuit is laying it on pretty thick.

Seeing a story about gay cowboys causes $500k worth of distress … yeah right! The reasonable and sensible outcome in this would be teacher fired, and school apologises to parents of students who were shown age-inappropriate film without permission. Easy! But, too many lawyers who need to create work to feed themselves, and we get a stupid lawsuit instead.