I have to say you’ve missed the boat by making your own dangerous assumptions. First of all, those two women can take care of themselves — I don’t for a minute see them as on unequal footing. We learn the trans woman is former military, and the anti-trans dude is not, though he appears that way by his own admission, shifting our own assumptions about these two people. Second — “bothsidedness”??? are you kidding me? That’s a bad thing? It reflects well on those in the spot who are open to taking in the opposing sides (i.e., male, homo/trans-phobic, anti-feminist, climate change denier) as people with their own backgrounds and their own world view. How are we ever going to work out our differences if we don’t start talking like people? It’s like one of the Four Agreements (or however many there are): Don’t take it personally. Ultimately, it’s an ad for Heineken beer and they are probably actors. If it was a true human experiment, there were probably plenty who did walk away on either side. But that’s not the point the adverstisers for Heineken wanted to make. The point they wanted to make was isn’t it great to sit down to beers and get down to what it’s all about?