The 1992 analysis by Stephen Green (The Sexual Dead End, Broad View) indicates that in this country a homosexual male is 23 times more likely to
offend against a boy under 16 than a heterosexual male.
Where Hitchcock's inexplicable birds stood in for an idea of
offended femininity, taking retribution
against one of their straying sisters, the idea (or fact) of Shyamalan's aliens is just a source of convenient strife that forces a straying
boy - child (two sons really: Morgan and Graham) to regain faith in and dependency on their F / fathers.