At 05:33 AM 28/02/2005 -0800, you wrote:
>For the most part, seems like the gussied-up singing
cowboys and
>fringe-wearing cowboys who never got dirty (Hoppy and
such) in the movies
>and TV shows were the ones who wore their guns
strapped to their thighs.
>Oh, and so did the comic book cowboys.
Has something to do with gun fighting, surely: easier and
faster to draw if the gun is lower than higher, especially
with those long barrels mentioned earlier. I always took the
low-slung gun to imply that the desperado was spoiling for a
fight.
As for the dagger on the female thigh, especially the inner
thigh as seems to have been assumed through much of this
discussion, there's some sexual psychology at play here.
Hasn't the femme fatale, that familiar feature of noir and
hardboiled fiction, always symbolized the threat of feminine
wiles to male power, or at least the male fear of
emasculation?
Gotta go wash the wife's dainties now, Kerry
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