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TOTW 03/09: What Was the Attraction?
Kerry:
I have no problem with the word "queer." I wear it as a badge of honour. I'm in good company.
Katie77:
--- Quote from: Kerry on May 30, 2009, 10:49:57 am ---I have no problem with the word "queer." I wear it as a badge of honour. I'm in good company.
--- End quote ---
And I'm sure you use the word in an affectionate and sometimes humourous way Kerry, as it should be, when it is used.
But as you know, sometimes it can be used in a derogative way, which is how I think Ennis viewed it.
optom3:
--- Quote from: Kerry on May 30, 2009, 10:49:57 am ---I have no problem with the word "queer." I wear it as a badge of honour. I'm in good company.
--- End quote ---
Queer is only derogatory if you allow it to be, so I agree with you.
In the north of England there is a very old phrase, there's nowt so queer as folk, normally muttered in conjunction with, there's more out than in. !! Iam definitely very queer/strange/odd, but it at least spares me from the grey cloak of mediocrity.
One good thing about moving to the states, is many of my quirks are perfectly acceptable and accepted as part of the perceived eccenticity of the British. ;D
Katie77:
--- Quote from: optom3 on May 30, 2009, 03:50:19 pm ---Queer is only derogatory if you allow it to be, so I agree with you.
In the north of England there is a very old phrase, there's nowt so queer as folk, normally muttered in conjunction with, there's more out than in. !! Iam definitely very queer/strange/odd, but it at least spares me from the grey cloak of mediocrity.
One good thing about moving to the states, is many of my quirks are perfectly acceptable and accepted as part of the perceived eccenticity of the British. ;D
--- End quote ---
Same out here in Oz, Fiona. We brag about how strange and odd we are.....its our trademark.
And for us, who's ancestors were shipped out here for penance, we can always blame our British heritage...lol
mariez:
--- Quote from: bailey1205 on May 29, 2009, 06:56:11 pm ---I think his fear of thinking of himself as queer was bigger then his fear of the tire iron.
--- End quote ---
bailey, I totally agree with this. Obviously, the thought of being so brutally beaten is horrifying, but I don't think Ennis's real torment was simply about any type of physical beating - it was a more internal torment about being "queer" and what he had been taught by his father and society that that meant.
As to the question of their attraction - I always think of that line from the ss that has been quoted a few times here already, at the end of the paragraph that begins:
They had a high-time supper by the fire....................................They were respectful of each other’s opinions, each glad to have a companion where none had been expected. Ennis, riding against the wind back to the sheep in the treacherous, drunken light, thought he’d never had such a good time, felt he could paw the white out of the moon.
We can see that neither of them had ever felt so comfortable with another person before.
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