In a message dated 10/28/07 7:57:37 AM,
brokerharris@gmail.com writes:
>
> > And 300 was much the same, all fat and precious
little meat. Except
> > it added the gay element. So homophobic 14-year
olds could look at
> > naked sweaty, well-built men and not have to
wait for football
> > season. It's got to be about the gayest
straight movie ever made.
>
> As a gay man on the list, I have to wholeheartedly
agree with this.
> Not only is the movie homoerotic in its every sinew
and fiber, it even
> presents competing gay styles for your delectation
(the
> hypermasculinized, six-pack-abs, pseudo-leather-bar
style of the
> Spartans versus the simpering, multiply-pierced,
heavily made-up,
> party-boy dance-club style of Xerxes and his
entourage).
>
> Previous holder of the "gayest straight movie ever
made" title: Top
> Gun.
>
funny, but true. and of course 300 is homoerotic. it's about
Sparta, for pete's sake. inventors of the term "Spartan
Revelry" which is simply a euphemism for a buncha guys
wanking each other
>
> I also have to agree about the homoerotics of
football. One of the
> funniest bits I have ever run across on the Internet
is this
> observation by Noah Diamond:
>
> "Football and homosexuality - just something I like
to point out. I
> have no problem with football, and I have no problem
with
> homosexuality - I just have a problem with the fact
that the obvious
> link between these two things is so rarely
advertised. Football wears
> the cultural mantle of the ultimate heterosexual
machismo trip -
> something straight guys love, and something many
straight guys feel
> only a gay guy would dislike. But that's a lie. What
football actually
> represents, I think, is the acceptably mainstream
expression of the
> heterosexual male's closeted obsession with
homoeroticism. Say it with
> me. There is nothing gayer than football. You'll
never see a ballet,
> for example, more homoerotic than a football game.
Never! Go to a
> ballet, and men are dancing with women; go to a
football game, and men
> are patting each other on the ass. Which is the
least of it. Fuck,
> I'll bet most gay porn isn't as homoerotic as a
football game - that
> testosterone-dripping event in which a bunch of big,
strong guys line
> up, bend over, jump all over each other, and then go
take a shower
> together."
>
I'm sure he wrote this before he ever saw a UFC mixed martial
arts bout in the Octagon. sweaty, muscular guys wearing
nothing but tight shorts, clenching each other between their
legs or from behind, beating the living shit out of each
other
John Lau
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