"How can a man look at another man's h a i r y a$$ ... and find love?"
Posted on 01/15/2006 11:00:14 AM PST by TFFKAMM
It's true, the movie "Brokeback Mountain" does provoke what one researcher calls "a very strong ick factor" in some straight men.
What is it in this story of two cowboy pals in 1960s Wyoming who find themselves in lifelong love -- yet go on to marry women -- that elicits this response from heterosexual males?
The answers are as complex as the plot.
A psychologist who coined the word "homophobic" said the revulsion is precisely that. A scientist who discovered genetic links to sexuality said he simply does not understand the response. The author of "The Sexual Brain" said there is nothing on a neurobiological basis to explain the aversion.
To film fan Eddie Hargreaves of Stockton, it's more like the "ick" of romantic drama. "I'm not going to speak for everybody," he said, "but I don't know a lot of straight guys who said, 'Oh, man, I can't wait to see "Bridges of Madison County," 1995's famous tearjerker.
"Brokeback Mountain," directed by Oscar winner Ang Lee and starring box-office hunks Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal, is sparking both critical praise and water-cooler chatter. It's been nominated for seven Golden Globe awards.
But when movie critic Dave White, who is gay, wrote a humorous piece titled "The Straight Dude's Guide to 'Brokeback,' " "I got hundreds of messages, most of whom hated me for just existing," he said...
(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...
Talk about not 'getting it' How did 'genetic' links get there in the first place? a turkey baster?
Maybe I have a definite genetic link which tells me homosexuality is sick.
They use code-words like "affectionate" to suggest that normal men are NOT affectionate, which is nonsense.
Through my Navy career, I spent probably 95% of my time with men, and not once did it occur to me that another man's bare hairy ass was attractive or sexual. But if a squadmate had a bad day in an airplane, where his life was in question, and he brought it back, you think I wouldn't hug him?
The gays and their protectors just dont want to acknowledge that THEY have the problem, not us. I just sat through that Penguin movie with a woman on Rush's recommendation, and enjoyed it. That does not mean that I am about to watch any movie where two pudding-packers try to teach me about Man-love. No thanks!
Right or wrong, gay or straight, there are some things ya just don't want to see, hear, or know about.
"How can a man look at another man's h a i r y a$$ ... and find love?"
Any "genetic" link would have extinguished itself long ago according to Darwin's theory. I mean if you don't get into the gene pool you're extinguished in one generation. Don't they get it? It's their theory after all...can't have it both ways.
I have a natural aversion to thinking about guys who get poo-poo on their pee-pee.
I can't believe the guy who wrote Lonesome Dove put his name to this bucket of crap
Many Straight Guys Say 'No Thanks' to 'Brokeback Mountain'
Unless it's a martial arts movie.
To use a Rush term, ditto.
Hate to tell you this it's already happening here, too. Here is a Washgington Post article Psychiatry Ponders Whether Extreme Bias Can Be an Illness. There is a movement afoot to make 'homophobia' an official mental illness by inclusion of it in DSM IV, the diagnostic manual for shrinks.
We become more and more like the Soviet Union with each passing day.
"We treat racism and homophobia as delusional disorders," said Shama ...
Hollywood would not make such a movie. There is "Boys Don't Cry" starring Hillary Swank as a lesbo seducing a girl while pretending to be a guy. Or how about "Monster," starring Charlize Theron as a butch lesbo serial killer. Nothing erotic about these movies unless you like watching diesel d*kes in plaid shirts. David Lynch's lesbo flick "Mulholland Drive" starring Naomi Watts had a more favorable treatment of lesbos but didn't pack the house with hetero guys. Sarah Michelle Gellar had a lipstick lesbian subplot going in "Cruel Intentions" but that didn't result in hetero men rushing to the theaters either to see it.
"Imagine the POSITIVE response from heterosexual male movie-goers if "Brokeback" was about two lesbian cowgirls, and starred, say, Jennifer Love Hewitt and Jessica Alba."
Umm... Excuse me. I'll be back in a few minutes...
I mean Fess Parker was gay and Davy Crockett sodomized bears as he wrestled with them. Thats the real reason Crockett went to Texas, he was outed!
And Wild Bill Hickock? Well he used to sexually assault boys he locked up in his jail, handcuffing them to the bars.
And you know Annie Oakly, well she was a dyke because she was really masculine and displaced her sexual inhibitions throgh shooting.
Somehow this all justifies Barney Franks and his stable of gay houseboys in Washington.
And cowboys? Well they were mostly gay, how the hell else could they spend months together on the open range without women??
Sarcasticoughing!!!
We can't defeat the right at the polls , so we will redefine what America actually IS by remythologizing American youth about America.
Gay folks are fine by me, no homophobia here, BUT when gays and gay culture try to seize cultural and political power based on minority, unhealthy lifestyles, THEN I HAVE A PROBLEM! HOLLYWOOD, Screw your attempts to revise the meaning of cowboy heroism. We have about 100,000 cowboys and cowgirls in Iraq. And their boots were made for walkin, not schlockin!
And I love every one of 'em, whether they are gay or not.
Bound: starring Gina Gershon and Jennifer Tilly
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