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Brokeback as an Anti-Gay Polemic : essay by W.C. Harris

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Jeff Wrangler:

--- Quote from: injest on January 16, 2008, 08:08:42 pm ---this post was a response to Jeff's comment that the stereotype is caused by TV and movies...


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I'm not looking to argue with you, Jess, but you take a look at my post again. I did not say the stereotype was caused by TV and movies. I said it was fostered, I meant it's spread by TV and movies, movies like The Bird Cage, and TV news broadcasts of Pride parades, and so forth.

But even that wasn't my point. My point was that however much these "people like Jack and Ennis" may "stay hidden" and may not like it, in the eyes of any straight people who know who and what they are, they are gay--if their straight family and friends feel a need to attach a name to what they are--because that's just the common use today, whether or not it conjures up images of outrageous drag queens or swishy decorators or bare-butt boys in motorcycle chaps, so these people like Jack and Ennis ought to just save their time and energy denying that they are gay, because in the eyes of the world, if they love other men and have sex with other men, they are gay.

And I sure hope their straight friends and families aren't calling them queers and fairies and pansies behind their backs.

injest:
you are right...I did miss your point.

mea culpa?

injest:
hey, I don't need to be spreading my opine up in here...it is not my beeswax...you guys have fun...I will leave you to it

 ;)

Jeff Wrangler:

--- Quote from: injest on January 16, 2008, 11:57:27 pm ---you are right...I did miss your point.

mea culpa?



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You don't need to mea culpa about nothing in my opinion. Your point about it being gay people, and a certain population of loud and out-there gay people, who do the things the media focus on, is a good point. It just wasn't my point, that's all.  :)

Artiste:
There is a lot of fear in the BM movie... would that make it partly anti-gay?

I have spoken about the violence in this BM movie, which I find too much, but no one seems to talk about that except to find that it seems to me as normal which puzzles me. Why?

Hugs to all May gay men be safe and all others too in the whole world!!

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