Dave gets caught up in a bigger fight when he meets Big Daddy ( Nicolas Cage), a former cop who, in his quest to bring down the crime boss Frank D'Amico ( Mark Strong) and his son Red Mist ( Christopher Mintz-Plasse), has trained his eleven-year-old daughter ( Chloë Grace Moretz) to be the ruthless vigilante Hit-Girl. It tells the story of an ordinary teenager, Dave Lizewski ( Aaron Johnson), who sets out to become a real-life superhero, calling himself "Kick-Ass". It is based on the comic book of the same name by Mark Millar and John Romita, Jr.
What about you guys? Who has dealt with a straight roommate in college? How did it end? Share your thoughts below.Kick-Ass is a 2010 superhero film directed by Matthew Vaughn from a screenplay by Jane Goldman and Vaughn. If only we could turn back time, right? I’d tell John to just be himself from the second he moved into that apartment. Was it John’s fear of being judged that caused him to hide his personality or his roommates’ homophobia? Since John seems to get along well with these guys now, I’m going with the former. Though, I did learn from a mutual friend that these roommates thought John was asexual when he lived with them-guessed he was that good at hiding his sexuality!īut I’m curious to get everyone’s thoughts on this. He’s very out on campus, but still can’t seem to tell these guys he is gay. Now, two years later and into his junior year, John still grabs dinner with one of those freshman roommates. They even would go to him routinely for emotional problems and fashion advice. John told me that the second he started breaking out, he developed a better relationship with his roommates. He was making progress and slowly stopped caring what his roommates thought.Īnd the roommates weren’t so bad either. He never disclosed his sexuality with his roommates, but started to break out of his shell. It wasn’t until April of freshman year that John, frankly, stopped giving a f**k. John was so worried about getting judged that he pushed himself further into the closet than he ‘d ever been before. He didn’t join the Bisexual, Gay, Lesbian and Straight (BGLSA) on campus. In an attempt to save himself from the bullying he’d experienced in high school and “make sure his roommates didn’t feel uncomfortable” (His words, not mine), John made his first semester of college miserable. The few times I hung out at John’s apartment, his roommates were routinely dropping the f-(not f**k) bomb, saying “that’s so gay,” and bro-ing out to their heart’s content while John sat afraid to let his freak rainbow flag fly. I didn’t know his roommates very well, but they definitely weren’t helping the situation either. He lost his spark, stopped talking about boys and would only mention the topics he really loved (Britney, Britney and Britney) when he wasn’t around what was supposed to be his home. John immediately regressed into a shell of the guy I was just starting to get to know. I say seemingly because I partially blame John for what happened in the forthcoming semester. The result? John was placed in an upperclassmen apartment-style residence hall with two (seemingly!) homophobic freshmen fraternity hopefuls.
He opted to not room with me (Still bitter about that, John!) in favor of the “classic” random college roommate experience.
Take my friend John.* John came to the University of South Carolina freshly out of the closet and ready to embrace his sexuality. This leaves nervous gay freshmen, who maybe just escaped a high school ridden with misogynistic bullies, in quite the mental predicament. While gender-neutral housing is the new frontier-some colleges already have residence halls where both a male and female can occupy one room-most institutions abide by the “same-sex dorm room” staple. And for us gays, the entire ordeal can be even more awkward sauce if we’re assigned to live with a close-minded, homophobic straight boy. One of the most frightening parts of college-for anyone-is the random roommate experience. * Names have been changed to protect the privacy of my friends…and me.