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TOTW 15/07: Short story or movie, which one do you prefer?
brokebackjack:
Not for nothing, I am SO glad I posed those questions!
Hopefully no one will say I'm being sexist, but.... there are few things I like better then asking a question and listening to the responses given by thoughtful, intelligent women. Women With Minds are all over the Brokie websites; the active participation of so many 'Anti-Paris Hilton' types help make BetterMost the adventure it is. I always get a new insight on a topic---even one which I'd felt had been talked to death--when Brokies who are women put their opinions forward...
I mean i like guys but really, we can be on the dull side.
brokebackjack:
OFFTOPIC:
by the way, to those of you who have been trying to contact me--the phone was messed up, the keyboard got damaged. I am back in Denver as of 3 hours ago.
And the phone will be fixed tomorrow....much, much love!
Artiste:
Thanks very much all of you!!
Your questions are posed! I am very happy that you are posing such!!
I will not detail to-day this anti-gay expression that I see somewhat by the movie... because it is my bedtime and one can not think that much being exhausted! Since I am no spring-chicken like some of you studs and young ladies!!
What concerns me mostly is that some gay men that I communicated with had seen the BM movie and dislike it greatly! Never wanting to see it again!! Why? We must try to find out that??
There are also other concerns which puzzles me. Many women I feel and (I see in some ways) see the movie wanting it to be anti-gay!! They simply dispise the two main charactors!! Why?? Again, can this be an anti-gay thing??
These are only 2 questions, so far.
Some of you know me well enough by now that I seek justice, truth, data, and am pleased by your details, views and feelings which we all share here. Awaiting your news,
hugs!! Cheers too!!
brokebackjack:
I have never met a woman who saw BBM and despised the characters. Never.
I have had several friends tell me they are afraid to see Brokeback. They are gay men, gay men who refuse to see Brokeback because they are afraid of it, afraid of it's tremendous power. They have seen the remarkable changes inspired by Brokeback in several friends, including me. And they do not wish to change.
They want their lives to be magically fixed, They are unwilling to do the work which must be done if real change occurs.....
Oregondoggie:
This thread is meant to compare the movie with the book, but I have to agree with the off-topic remarks of Artiste that I have run into younger gay men who don't "get it" at all. Maybe it's a time thing.
The plight of the women in the film, far more detailed than in the short story, is a cause for sadness. My best female friend here in Portland lost her husband to AIDS. She still reels from the knowledge that he was "Bi" or "Gay"... When I bought the DVD, she borrowed it to see alone. It became a topic off-limits. We could not discuss it. Just as I wish it would cease being a point of discussion here on this thread.
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