[hinckley buzzard]

They're just called cowboys because they're wearing a hat and boots. Hopefully designer, right?

Wrong. they're called "cowboys" because this film is an attack on the icon of masculinity in western civilization.

Quite transparent if you ask me, and hard to miss. "'Cowboys' who herd sheep?" How much more obvious can they be? geez.

[CheyennePress]

Okay, I like yours better.

I've thought the same about why they chose this subject as their "coming out" movie. It's a grab at masculinity. And yes, an insult, as well.

But my sentiments still stand on (part of) the reason they get by with it is because they're wearing the right fashion accessories. There is the larger issue, as you mentioned.

[MillerCreek]

This is classic (as in, classicly terrible but predictable)...the author of the story, "Brokeback Mountain," a woman who writes in near gibberish-to-actual gibberish, is interviewed in "Bookslut."

Note her being described there as "an artist," among other things. Her work is like something written by an illiterate in the dark of night with a crayon...terrible.

[Salamander]

Wasn't there some great John Wayne line about the "stinking sheepherders"?....:))