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[sabotabby]

Link of the day, courtesy of trollprincess.

It's your typical Levitican homophobic bile, made a million times more entertaining with one line: "The young ladies who are fans of Gyllenhaal and Ledger do not want to see them making out."

I'd wager that "Jared" does not have much contact with young heterosexual women, because I'm quite sure that this isn't true. Granted, I have no statistics to back me up, but I think most "young ladies" would want to see that. (If you're wondering, I saw the trailer in the company of a (mostly) heterosexual gentleman, neither of us knowing what it was about. Neither of us were particularly inclined to see it based on the trailer, but we both agreed that Gyllenhaal and Ledger looked very pretty together.)

The cowardly wanker has now turned off comments. Awww. You can still continue to flame his colleague, in a post defending the original post, not that I would ever encourage such behaviour.

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Comments

[groovitude.livejournal.com]

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.

[pretzelsalt.livejournal.com]

good points.

Yes - I absolutely had a bit of a "yuck factor" reaction to the preview - but it was the cowboys that bring that out in me.

[sabotabby]

Pfft. Cowboys are hot.

[pretzelsalt.livejournal.com]

OMG R KNOT!!!

[sabotabby]

OMG R!

[groovitude.livejournal.com]

Wait, that's only a faux-cowboy.

[sabotabby]

Correction: Two space-cowboys. Besides, Bush is a faux-cowboy.

[pretzelsalt.livejournal.com]

KNOT!

[sabotabby]

R!

[jaymoh.livejournal.com]

He's so not a cowboy. He can't even ride a horse.

[pretzelsalt.livejournal.com]

Sees the land as profit to be had?

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Steals lands and recorces from those already living there?

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Often claiming "god said so"?

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Thinks nothing of killing said in the way peoples?

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Wears a cowboy hat?



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Sits down to a big dead turkey to celebrate this national strategy of genocide and gluttony?



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I call cowboy.

[jaymoh.livejournal.com]

I think a guy's gotta ride a horse to be a cowboy. Otherwise, he's just a republican.

[jaymoh.livejournal.com]

oh, and besides, I'm playing sexy cowboys who only herd cattle and roam around and make out. I don't want stupid God or genocide to have anything to do with the fun cowpoke fantasies.

[crash666.livejournal.com]

The turkey wasn't dead. It was plastic.

[sabotabby]

I say this was a nefarious conspiracy to make their blog e-popular and then take over the world.

You could be right. Then again, there have been a number of obscure blogs wherein someone has made some dumb remark and the next thing you know, it's all over teh intarwebs.

I saw the preview before "Paradise Now," so I'd also presume that the audience mostly kicked with the left boot. The snickering seemed to be geared more to very bad dialogue than anything else.

Also, heh. Buttsex.

[pretzelsalt.livejournal.com]

in fact "dead man" is the only western themed movie I can think of that I liked - much less did not violently fight having to sit through.

[groovitude.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I liked that one as well. Jarmusch's "Ghost Dog" is also good if you go or cowboys/samurais in the inner city motif. It's a Western with a dash of spirituality.

[pretzelsalt.livejournal.com]

Love that one too - AND you have an icon!

Hawt!

I think my cowboy thing is more of a "barren wasteland with white men taming that bitch nature and killing things that move around" type of thing.

How's about this one?

[groovitude.livejournal.com]

(http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0089767/combined)

Re: How's about this one?

[pretzelsalt.livejournal.com]

never saw it.

namely because of my phobia.

I did see paint your wagon though.

[sabotabby]

I think my cowboy thing is more of a "barren wasteland with white men taming that bitch nature and killing things that move around" type of thing.

I think that's what makes me into it. For much the same reason, I find the gay Nazi skinheads in Attila Richard Lukac's art really hot, too. I never said that I wasn't a sick fuck.

[groovitude.livejournal.com]

That's hilarious. A post about gay cowboys has led us on a series of coming out of the closet moments about our penchant for sadism.

[sabotabby]

And this surprises you why?

[rohmie.livejournal.com]

You mean, you didn't like Blazing Saddles or The Frisco Kid?

Gene Wilder makes a cowboy movie.

And speaking of gay cowboys, as we were earlier, who can dislike Rustler's Rhapsody?

[human-loser.livejournal.com]

again with the awesome icon!!!