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Anyone watch the ESPYs??
bbm_stitchbuffyfan:
Yeah, I'm jumping on that same bandwagon.
What do you think the writers were aiming for at the ESPYs when Jake said "Yeah, there is a lot of gay stuff in here...?" [Referring to Terrell Owens' book, which I have no idea why homosexuality is related to that but okay...]
Or do you think Jake said that himself? I'm baffled as to where he/the writers is/are coming from.
ednbarby:
--- Quote from: bbm_stitchbuffyfan on August 03, 2006, 06:06:43 pm ---Yeah, I'm jumping on that same bandwagon.
What do you think the writers were aiming for at the ESPYs when Jake said "Yeah, there is a lot of gay stuff in here...?" [Referring to Terrell Owens' book, which I have no idea why homosexuality is related to that but okay...]
Or do you think Jake said that himself? I'm baffled as to where he/the writers is/are coming from.
--- End quote ---
I'm guessing there is something about The Down Low in Owens' book. i.e., that little phenomenon in which black men get together to have sex just for kicks. But they're really straight. Honest. I'm guessing only - I haven't read it and don't plan to because I can't stand Terrell Owens and have no desire to know what it is that "makes him tick." Actually, I already do know: megalomania.
The whole thing has left a bad taste in my mouth. I think where the writers were coming from is having a need to prove their masculinity and that of their audience largely composed of (supposedly) straight male professional athletes by making a guy who played a gay rodeo cowboy in love with another man the brunt of gay jokes. Nothing more or less than that. I feel bad for Jake that he had to put up with it. I can't believe he was wild about it, no matter what Lance Armstrong says.
Once again, I no longer am experiencing penis envy. I can't tell you all how glad I am to be a woman in this stupid, backwards society. Oh. Wait a minute...
ednbarby:
This just in: I get it. It being the context in which Jake most likely said "I love it, I love it" (or something very much like it) to Lance Armstrong.
One of The Jackies (The Jackies being my two best friends in the world) sent this to me tonight, recalling my saying that it was Jake's appearance on Leno, and a particular moment during it, that sealed the deal for me, knocked Rafe out of the Number One spot on my List, stole the show, all of it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZvOd1vo2Em0&NR
And that particular moment was when he said "Bring it on, man" in response to Jay asking if he was tired of all the jokes about the movie.
There is nothing sexier on God's green earth than confidence. And fearlessness (in a non-Jackass sort of way, of course). And when Jake said this, to me he was saying "Fuck 'em all." So when Lance approached him about That Joke on the Espys and he said, "I love it, I love it," it wasn't him being insensitive or ingenuous. It was him saying I'm not afraid of whatever you guys want to throw at this movie or at me. Bring it on.
notBastet:
I've been ruminating on a similar thought for a while, not sure if it had merit, but wondered if his attitude towards the jokes was sort of like, "Who cares? Joke about 'it' all you want. 'It' is not a bad thing."
Thoughts?
(personally trying hard to avoid wondering why I spend so much time trying to work out what Jake thinks...)
::)
ednbarby:
--- Quote from: notBastet on August 07, 2006, 11:33:58 pm ---I've been ruminating on a similar thought for a while, not sure if it had merit, but wondered if his attitude towards the jokes was sort of like, "Who cares? Joke about 'it' all you want. 'It' is not a bad thing."
Thoughts?
(personally trying hard to avoid wondering why I spend so much time trying to work out what Jake thinks...)
::)
--- End quote ---
Hmmmmm. Um, yeah. I know the feeling. One of my coworkers has said a couple of times to me recently "GET therapy. PLEASE." Perhaps I should take his advice. ;)
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