Well, I guess it would make sense only in the context that the "Brokeback" cowboys have now become negative slang whenever a genre starts pushing the gay narrative (e.g. "The Sopranos season 6 turned into Brokeback mafia"), so that could "anti-western" in the sense its an insult to westerns!
This guy wrote "Hud" too. And "The Last Picture Show" sounds interesting, but its the only thing on his writing credits list that actually IS a "non-western" (like how Sergio Leone's only non-western was the excellent Once Upon a Time In America)
My dad was a fan of the Lonesome Dove series, had the original miniseries and all the prequels and sequels on DVD. I still have his old collection, I've never seen it, have no interest in it.
Weird that this guy was the same screenwriter who gave us the homo cowboys. But hey, I went into American Gods thinking "hey, it's the guy who wrote Coraline, this should be cute and creepy!" BIG mistake...
Even the adorably plump-lipped Emily Browning couldn’t save the bizarre “American Gods.”