So, my cats and I are TOTES FINE!
But, yes, that was very much a Cold-War Era, facing-nuclear-destruction bummer story. BUT that does make it a very different premise!
The people in On the Beach are facing death due to a nuclear holocaust which just hasn't reached them yet (the fallout). It's about humanity destroying itself.
This film is about crazy random happenstance.
IT'S SO SHOCKING that treating a child like a special snowflake results in children who think they are special snowflakes!!!!11!!
Because...
*sniff*
So this is what it boils down to: If YOUR free speech is being used solely to DENY the rights or freedoms of another person or group, you are wrong. You are not doing something to be tolerated and respected; you are being an asshole. Are you still free to use your Constitutional freedom of speech to be an asshole? Yes, but you are still an asshole and lots of people calling you out as an asshole is just going to come with the territory.
I really can't think of a funny-looking woman star that men find sexy. So, yes, there are a lot of gorgeous sex-symbol men, but there are a lot of not-so-gorgeous sex-symbol men, too. And John Tuturro? Kind of hot, actually, in some roles at least. And Wallace Shawn got the girl in Clueless...