Gotta love a quick-draw with a comeback

[serai]

Heeheehee. Found this over at FW, and damn near choked on m'sammich!


First, check out this...geez, I'm not sure which adjective to use - ill-informed? blinkered? moronic? just plain wanky? - whatever...article on how Brokeback Mountain is raping the image of the Marlboro Man.

Go ahead. I'll wait....

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Back now? OK, now take a look at this blogger's brilliant graphic comeback over here.


Now that's wit, in my opinion. All I want to know is why the hell can't I think of things like that?


P.S. Feel free to spread this around. I'm sure a lot of people will find it worthwhile!

Comments

[rabidsamfan.livejournal.com]

Ah, but I don't think you have to be "gay" to marry where you love. In a society which accepted gays and gay marriage, Ennis would have been less likely to see a lynching, and having a strong attraction to Jack -- one which kept recurring -- he could have contemplated marriage to the person he obviously loved. And I think there would have been less of a feeling of "gotta marry a girl", too. The odds that neither man would have attached himself to a women and hurt her go up if they have a legitimate way to attach themselves to each other without condemnation.

Yeah, some people are going to be unfaithful, regardless -- or are built for angst and would find it where they find it -- but in the same way, there are people who could and would settle happily with their first great love and never look back. The article which I was arguing against thinks that making homosexuality more of a bane and a shame will somehow preserve and save the lives and happiness of the people on the periphery of a homosexual affair, and I think that notion is going at the problem exactly backwards.