Many Straight Guys Say 'No Thanks' to 'Brokeback Mountain'

Newhouse News ^ | 1/5/2005 | Dru Sefton

[Jen from Tn.]

You got that right! John Wayne would roll over in his grave!This is no cowboy movie. Don't they herd sheep?

[Atlas Sneezed]

His advice for straights uneasy about "Brokeback" is to "first understand you have this problem. At least by acknowledging it, that's a start. It's like saying, `I have a fear of heights."'

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In a way, I agree. It is quite natural and healthy to feel uncomfortable at dangerous high places, and it is also normal and healthy to think that looking at (or being made to imagine) men making love is yucky.

If having at least a touch of revulsion at intimate contact between men is homophobic, then most men of the world are homophobic.

[TheForceOfOne]

I haven't seen it, is Ned Beatty in it? any banjo's?

[samm1148]

"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."

Homophobic-It is a made up word. When queers discovered that normal mentally healthy people were sickened by the idea or sight of queer conduct the queers were left with no alternative but to lash out.

If one did not approve of manic--depressives would one be called a manicphobe? No, because manic-depression is a recognized mental illness. So was homosexuality until the early 70's.

[Nathan Zachary]

Sheeppokes.

Nope. Cowboys. They wear cowboy hats, not sheephearding robes and a big cane, they were cowboyboots, not sandals, and they enter rodeo's and ride (besides each other) bulls and broncs. Cowboy stuff. Cowboy- A hired man, especially in the western United States, who performs many of his duties on horseback. Also called cowman, cowpoke; Also called cowpuncher; also called regionally buckaroo, vaquero; Also called waddy.

[Sioux-san]

You are so right - I have no desire to see this flick no matter "how good the acting."

Glad someone pointed out that these actors aren't playing cowboys - they're shepherds, and shepherds do get lonely, so have some damn sympathy already. From one of the reviews I read, these men have their little fling in a tent on the mountain and are freaked out by it like normal men would be. They go on with their lives and get married to unsuspecting women and have kids. Then they end up divorcing and abandoning their families because of what? That wonderful night of anal sex on Brokeback Mountain? And it is the Straight World's fault that they don't pursue their so-called love? Spare me.

This movie has one purpose and that is to change minds by evoking sympathy for unsympathetic behavior. As usual, the worst enemy of some gays is facing them in the mirror. We straights just don't care what you do. Please just leave us alone. Oh, I forgot - you have to recruit, don't you, because you cannot reproduce future partners for the Gay World.

My feelings on this movie take me back to the hullaballoo over the gay bishop of New Hampshire. This man declares he is gay. He divorced his wife, left his children, and moved his boyfriend in with him. And he thinks he is Bishop material -- no one should think anything is wrong with this picture. As Stossel says so well, Give me a Break! And not on a mountain....

[Caipirabob]

It's just not my "thing", baby! Yeah....

[mississippi red-neck]

I told my wife when this piece fo trash came out that Homowood would promote it as the greatest thing since "Gone With The Wind " just because it promotes the queer life style as normal.

You watch they'll try to give it every award known to man because they are morally bankrupt.

The western was the one place we thought they wouldn't shove this perverted life style in our face but knowing Homowood we should have known better.

I will never knowingly go to or watch in my home a movie such as this.

My Western Heroes never snuck up and and shot a man from the back, or in the behind.

What's next from Homowood, the cowboy hero who lassos, corrals and digs his spurs into the school marm's eight year old boy?

Or maybe the cowboy who really does make love to his horse and dog instead of the girl?

I hope and pray this thing and everybody associated with it lose so much money and credibility that they will have to pay people to come and see them in anything they do from now own.

[Lancer_N3502A]

A psychologist who coined the word "homophobic" said the revulsion is precisely that.

I'm afraid of nothing. Homosexuals are simply unnatural, immoral, disgusting, and oh yea, most of em are dead by 50.

[CharacterCounts]

"At least `The English Patient' had a plane crash."

Best line of the whole piece.

[truth_seeker]

"Cowboys" don't herd sheep.

[ATOMIC_PUNK]

Yeah, the sooner we put these people in ovens, the better off we'll be.

Yea ? so how long you been a nazi ?

Saying they are dangerous to themselves and society is the truth you go to far with your little extermination rant !

[perfect stranger]

Ping me to that suffix when you find it.

[Right Wing Assault]

My ninety-year-old father-in-law likes cowboy stories. I wonder if he'd like this one?

[RepoGirl]

OUCH!!!

LOL!

[ATOMIC_PUNK]

That said, the cake is WAY more than just the icing. The wrapping is pretty and flashy, but I bet no one in here is USING the wrapping paper under the tree from a week or so ago. I am fortunate to have a wife that is great to look at. After 27 years I can still make her blush by responding in truth to the queston "what are you thinking about?" with "You, naked."

22 Years here but i'm like a kid in a candy store when it comes to my wife she still thrills chills and excite's and though she may not be one of these other beuties shes mine ! i don't know and can't fathom what i would do without her .

My point is how could anyone ahhh nevermind you know what i mean ! after all your a FReeper !

[Luke21]

You got it. Anything that appeals to heterosexual males and their eyes is frowned upon and immediately censored.

[Disambiguator]

I had a similar experience when I accidentally saw a movie called "Personal Best" with Mariel Hemingway.

Lots of flannel in the audience that night, and a parking lot full of Subarus.

[purpleland]

"Whenever you go to see a movie, you are PAYING the Democrat/Socialist/Communist alliance. Just say no! :)"

I agree, and I've boycotted Gollywood movies for 15 years.

BTW, some tidbits on "liberal" Bush-Basher Streisand who may very well have help fund this pro-gay movie:

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Saturday, March 08, 2003
BARBRA STREISAND = AIDS PROFITEER
http://www.nypost.com/gossip/pagesix.htm

Feb. 22, 2003
NY Post
Page Six

Drug profiteer

BARBRA Streisand is good at making speeches about how pharmaceutical companies gouge AIDS patients with exorbitant drug prices, but she's even better at making a bundle speculating on their stock prices. The diva's non-profit Streisand Foundation has invested in such companies as Bristol Myers Squibb, Abbott Laboratories and Eli Lilly. Streisand's charity earned more than $17,000 from its trades in drug companies in 2000, according to papers filed with the government. A rep for the singer did not return calls.
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Feb. 19, 2003

Streisand Foundation made $17K on Halliburton stocks in ‘98
By Michael Petrelis

Like many Americans, I shopped at my local supermarket over the President’s Day Weekend, and while on the checkout line I read the National Enquirer cover story on Barbra Streisand’s gay son Jason Gould and his health as an HIV positive individual.

This got me thinking about the Barbra Streisand Foundation, which makes donations to gay and HIV/AIDS organizations, so I went to www.guidestar.com, the web site for the IRS 990 forms for all nonprofits, and read what was available on the foundation. The information below was gleaned from the FY2000 filing, http://documents.guidestar.org/2000/132/620/2000-132620702-1-F.pdf, and the FY1998 filing, http://documents.guidestar.org/1998/132/620/1998-132620702-1-F.pdf.

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I am a Barbra-Basher these days.

[Mr. Buzzcut]

The author of "The Sexual Brain" said there is nothing on a neurobiological basis to explain the aversion.

Howz about DISGUST!

Hell, I'm not even sure why women like us (I'm thankful they do!) ... we're repulsive!