The Sopranos: How the 'Mob' deals with a gay member

YouTube ^ | Aug 7 | RandFan

[warsaw44]

Wasn’t that entire story line thought up by the actor?

The show wasted so much time on the subject - it was laughable and the worst of the Sopranos.

[dznutz]

Why is this the first timer I’m hearing this?

Phil didn’t like to talk about eating grilled cheese off the radiator, or what he did with a tissue.

[dfwgator]

Let’s take this in the back.

[MHGinTN]

placemarker

[dfwgator]

AIDS?

[dfwgator]

Then Vito shot the civilian he got in the car accident with. He deserved everything that happened to him.

[fso301]

Let’s take this in the back./i>

That's what Vito did.

[dfwgator]

You can go!

[PLMerite]

Some things cannot be unseen...

[dfwgator]

“I feel like I’ve been stabbed in da haaaat”

[huckfillary]

It’s they’re, not their.

I am sick of bad grammar and punctuation on the net.

[Vermont Lt]

I wouldn’t hold the mafia up as an example for any social norms. Lol.

[x]

If mafioso really are the solid hetero males portrayed in movies, why would any of them embark on a career that offered such high chance of their being denied access to women for extended periods of time?

Where to begin? Criminals are people who have problems delaying gratification or thinking ahead to the consequences of their actions. They don't think ahead that far. Incarceration for extended periods doesn't seem like much of a possibility when they start. Also, a lot of them come from criminal cultures/backgrounds and don't consider other life options. And it's possible that if you can easily kill people, maybe conventional ideas of machismo don't matter to you.

[Starstruck]

Let’s not even get into Big Pussy. Not a name I would want to go through life with........except in that environment I would probably be a big pussy.

[dfwgator]

The “Vito is Gay” storyline did come out of nowhere, as if somebody pressured Chase into shoehorning in a gay storyline in The Sopranos.

[Trillian]

I had to fast forward quite a bit in that season. that’s a story line they could have done without.

[alexander_busek]

Vito is a come from behind kind of guy.

And Beanie was a real stand-up kinda guy.

Regards,

[wardaddy]

That’s not how prison works

[fso301]

Where to begin? Criminals are people who have problems delaying gratification or thinking ahead to the consequences of their actions

I agree. When one looks beyond the glamorous, even noble veneer portrayed in the movies and television, one finds people free of inhibition when it comes to their own gratification. The sort of person that will murder on the slightest suspicion, or just for the fun of it, a person that will dismember a body, torture victims, savagely beat victims, engage in all manner of vice and whose thoughts are continually of evil is the type person in a given situation that may prefer a woman but will settle for a man.

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[alexander_busek]

I agree. When one looks beyond the glamorous, even noble veneer portrayed in the movies and television, one finds people free of inhibition when it comes to their own gratification. The sort of person that will murder on the slightest suspicion, or just for the fun of it, a person that will dismember a body, torture victims, savagely beat victims, engage in all manner of vice and whose thoughts are continually of evil is the type person in a given situation that may prefer a woman but will settle for a man.

I respectfully disagree. I can imagine someone simply "being born into" or gradually "sliding into" the gangster subculture and quickly learning that only this type of behavior (killing people for an imagined slight; using torture to extract information, to punish informants, or to "set an example") is expected by his peers, is effective in maintaining order, and can't be avoided without signaling to others that you are a "push-over," a "patsy," or an undercover agent.

Of course, someone who is a sociopath from the "get-go" won't have to adopt these behaviors; he'll already embody them.

Regards,