[PGR88]

But by the end of a bleak portrait of failed lonely lives, with one of the lads cheating on the other with ranch-managers and Mexican rent boys, you're not even sure how gay-friendly the thing is: are the men selfish, uninterested parents because society's forced them to live a lie or because they're the sad self-destructive prisoners of their appetites?

Sums it up.

[mountainfolk]

Yes it does. Steyn does have a way of summing up the essence of whatever he is writing, or talking, about. I find him an exceptionally interesting person because of his take on just about anything, especially US history and current political corruption, in all forms, in America. Glad Mark is on the side of this Republic.

[HKMk23]

Indeed it does.

And, lest we fail to be clear, it is the latter of the two possibilities that is the answer to the question.