I read that post this morning and forwarded it to a few people. It's insane, but what amaes me most is how quickly can some out-of-hand staffer at some blog on the internet make a site an internet phenomena! They created their own echo chamber by posting about the "post" two or three times... I say this was a nefarious conspiracy to make their blog e-popular and then take over the world.
Frankly, the gay cowboy film is not "yucky" so much as risible. I saw its first previews before "The Constant Gardener," whose audience was far to the left, and the sounds of laughter and loud chuckles permeated the theater as soon as the premise was introduced. These people were not repulsed by the homoerotic scenes so much as amused by the campiness of the juxtaposition of gay and cowboy themes. It's campy because the gay cowboys are Village People, not vanguards of civil rights, they lampoon the images of male masculinity. So the reaction of these people was to the premise not, as Jared suggests, to the anal sex.
Seriously, you have to be very bored or very reactionary to go around looking for essentialist critiques for the highly superficial phenomena of pop culture. See my icon, if you don't believe me.
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Date: 2005-12-06 09:36 pm (UTC)Frankly, the gay cowboy film is not "yucky" so much as risible. I saw its first previews before "The Constant Gardener," whose audience was far to the left, and the sounds of laughter and loud chuckles permeated the theater as soon as the premise was introduced. These people were not repulsed by the homoerotic scenes so much as amused by the campiness of the juxtaposition of gay and cowboy themes. It's campy because the gay cowboys are Village People, not vanguards of civil rights, they lampoon the images of male masculinity. So the reaction of these people was to the premise not, as Jared suggests, to the anal sex.
Seriously, you have to be very bored or very reactionary to go around looking for essentialist critiques for the highly superficial phenomena of pop culture. See my icon, if you don't believe me.