Prayers for Bobby "is a film designed to teach us a lesson about religious intolerance," writes Tanya Erzen, "but in doing so it reproduces the unspoken rules for rendering gay people sympathetic or likable to a television audience: they were 'born that way,' they never have sex, and, of course, they die tragically." We thought the same thing when we saw the much bigger budget Revolutionary Road, Sam Mendes' accidental advertisement for the anti-abortion movement, a move so misogynist that it makes Underworld: Rise of the Lycans seem like a feminist parable. In the film, women are 'born that way,' of course, but in more ways than one -- they're conniving but not too bright, sex for them is a form of vengeance or control, and they often talk too much. Star Kate Winslet does have sex -- once to control Leonardo DiCaprio, once to take vengeance on him, and then never again. And, of course, she dies tragically, the wages of sin -- the result of aborting a baby Leo wanted. The movie opens with a deluded Winslet berating her husband; it ends with an old man happily turning off his hearing aid as his wife yammers on.