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Annie says Jack's death is a "test"
Front-Ranger:
--- Quote from: sfericsf on November 09, 2007, 01:38:05 pm ---Really? Do you not remember the long discussions and debates about this? Or is it that it was not enough ambiguous for you, as you concluded he was murdered, based on your feelings about Matthew Shepherd? I admit I have always thought it was a murder, probably because I've personally seen first hand things similar like this covered up, because of Matthew Shepherd, because I myself have been a victim of anti-gay violence...
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I am so sorry to hear that! Surely it did not happen in the Bay Area?
The accident just didn't seem plausible to me. If the tire blew up on him and knocked him out, he would have come to when he started choking. He could have turned himself over. He was so adept at getting out of the way of charging bulls after being thrown off them. I just can't believe he could die that easily.
Jeff Wrangler:
Hunh!
I don't know what to think.
Considering all the antigay violence that continues in this world, I'm offended by the assertion that because I go along with Ennis's belief that they got Jack with a tire iron that means I'm insecure in my sexuality.
It is too bad we don't have Annie's alleged comments in print. It just doesn't sound right to me that she would make a blanket statement that all gays would "get" that Jack died in an accident and all straights would assume it was murder.
I'm not prepared to take as gospel these memories of what Annie Proulx is alleged to have said six years ago.
Rontrigger's posts were always intelligent and worth reading. :)
Scott6373:
--- Quote from: Jeff Wrangler on November 09, 2007, 02:50:22 pm ---Hunh!
I don't know what to think.
Considering all the antigay violence that continues in this world, I'm offended by the assertion that because I go along with Ennis's belief that they got Jack with a tire iron that means I'm insecure in my sexuality.
It is too bad we don't have Annie's alleged comments in print. It just doesn't sound right to me that she would make a blanket statement that all gays would "get" that Jack died in an accident and all straights would assume it was murder.
I'm not prepared to take as gospel these memories of what Annie Proulx is alleged to have said six years ago.
Rontrigger's posts were always intelligent and worth reading. :)
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Thank you Jeff. That's exactly how I was feeling about it.
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: Scott on November 09, 2007, 02:52:42 pm ---Thank you Jeff. That's exactly how I was feeling about it.
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Friend, you're welcome. :) ;)
SFEnnisSF:
I was at first offended also when I read this on TOB... I at first thought, oh, because I think Jack was murdered, I'm not comfortable in my sexuality? WTF?
Then I thought about it and read deeper into it, and applied my own experiences and that with my ex-partners views of it being and accident, and have found the thoery/test to be quite interesting...kind of like a pysche test. Optimist vs. Pessismist. Half full vs. half empty. etc.
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