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

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

[TChad]

Let's replace "homophobia" with "homoaversion," and "homophobic" with "homoaverse". Disgust is not fear.

[Lady Heron]

For some reason the name of the exercise guy in your top picture has escaped me, but last week my husband showed me a video on what was used to be bigboys.com but has now changed its name to something like break.com

The video was a segment of "Whose Line is it Anyway" where he was the guest and had to be a prop for the comics. It has to be the loudest I have ever heard that audience laugh.

[darkangel82]

Many of the cowboys I know have Master in various subjects and many speak French, German, Czech or Spanish.

There are cowboys in Prague?

[perfect stranger]

Richard Simmons

[Nachoman]

Straight men won't see this movie because:

1. No car chases

2. No gun fights

3. Nothing gets blown up

4. No bare breasts

[William Terrell]

That's good. But there must be a Latin word for disgust that would fit "homo".

[TChad]

That's good. But there must be a Latin word for disgust that would fit "homo".

My eighth grade Latin is a bit rusty, but I found an online Latin dictionary. "Fastidium" and "taedium" that can both mean "disgust," but somehow I doubt that "homofastidium" would catch on. "Homotedium" would be probably interpreted as boredom with homosexuality, which has appeal but is not quite what I'm after.

"Homoaversion" would be generally understood immediately, no dictionary required. An aversion is not inherently pathologic, as is a phobia. The Merriam Webster Online Dictionary has as one meaning for "aversion,"

"A feeling of repugnance toward something with a desire to avoid or turn from it".

That should be close enough.

[RobbyS]

And what do you use to by-pass the digestive system?

Homosexuality is a very different disorder. Any male who prefers another male to a female is literally disoriented, like someone who eats dirt instead of food. On the other hand, there is the theory that what he prefers is really his own reflection. Still another is the notion that rather than self-love, it is a form of self-hatred. In preferring males to females, he is abasing himself. Whatever theory, the fact is that he is engaged in activities that mock the reproductive process.

[Sam the Sham]

Actually, it is my understanding that Anne Hathaway does a full frontal nude scene in it.

It seems to be a rite for teenage actresses. When they want to advertise that they are grown women now and ditch the 'tween' market they take their clothes off. Jennifer Connelly, Drew Barrymore, Alyssa Milano, Elizabeth Berkeley, Rachel Blanchard, etc.

[TexanToTheCore]

There are cowboys in Prague?

NOo, but there are cowboys from Prague. Many older ranching towns were settled by German and Czech, so you get the cowboys with the wide drawl and others with a Czech accent in the same town.

Apparently, this has always been the case. Cowboys (ranchhands) were frequently doing the work for a limited period of time until they out together enough money for their own ranch.

[Concentrate]

Jeez! I was just being sarcastic! And then I fell asleep! Sorry. And then I got banned for a week! If folks don't know where I stand by now, they certainly haven't been reading my post for the YEARS I've been here!

For the record, I don't advocate ANY group being put into ovens!