Well thanks Dad

I mean, he's not the ugliest girl I've ever seen

Also....like...I never questioned that he was a girl until I learned this factoid as an adult. So often when they put a man in drag for comedic effect you instantly know you are looking at a man but this kid passes yo.
- sometimes I do look at women - even attractive women - and see a man's face in a moment of contextual disassociation. And vice versa. And I think about how maybe men and women don't really look facially that dissimilar, there's just a lot of context that affects our perception.
  I am terminally bisexual though so maybe thats part of it.
- Fuck. You're right. A very interesting insight. Thank you for that. I honestly didn't appreciate how easily primed I can be.
- Because drag is an exaggeration and not really trying to pass. If it's for "comedic effect" they don't want them to pass anyways, because "man dressed as woman haha funny" gets confusing for cisheteros when he actually looks good.

When I was a kid, I would've thought it was hilarious to be mistaken for an ugly girl. Can't speak for this kid, but it looks like he had fun with it.

Nah, he probably had sisters, or cousins, or nieces, and he understood he had to take that one for the team. He’s proud today. He tells the story & laughs!

He's at an office Christmas party listening to boring stories and pipes up "yea, well I was buzz's gf in home alone!"
Probably paid for his college.
Look at that photo. It's such a small part, but he posed for a great photo. I only notice as an adult who has tried to take a photo of kids. Man, they don't know how to "smile naturally" or take any direction. Then this kid nails "smile like you like me against my wishes" or whatever direction was given.
what's his name? I want to see interviews of him as an adult talking about it.

"So they used a picture of the Art's Director unattractive son"

Conservatives: cancel Home Alone, it's grooming children!

I mean, OK for not picking some random girl and mocking her particularly but what about all the girls in the audience that look like the kid? It's still a pretty fucked up joke in retrospect.

Are we supposed to pretend that ugly kids don't exist or something?
- I don’t think the problem was the photo, the problem was the reaction of disgust, and the fact that the whole purpose of the photo was to laugh at the ugly person. I don’t think it’s unreasonable to say maybe that’s not the best way to go
- We don't have to act like being ugly is a character flaw or that there's anything wrong with dating an ugly person.
- Yes. In today's world, everyone is beautiful no matter what is what you're supposed to say.
  Not that being mean for being means she is good, but the directors made a good call, I think.

Woof!

Wtf are you barking at
- I'm not really barking. I'm sitting here quietly. I typed "woof" with my thumbs. It's a quote from the movie we're discussing.

Directors son, woof

It's not mean if it's degrading men.

Can you imagine casting for "Ugly Girlfriend?" Can you imagine being the girl who got the part? Can you imagine being a girl who got turned down for the part, especially if the mean kids in middle school found out? "haha did you hear Stephanie is too ugly to get cast as 'Ugly Girlfriend' in the John Hughes movie!"
They're not degrading men. They just know that if someone finds out that boy was the ugly girlfriend photo, the worst insult they can reasonably make out of it is "dude, you're an ugly girl." To which the boy can say, "yeah, that was the whole point."
This men's rights nonsense is stupid, but even more stupid when the complaint itself doesn't make sense.