Now I understand the outrage over Ms. Jackson's
SuperBowlBreastFlash.
----- Original Message ---- From: Mark R. Harris <
brokerharris@gmail.com> To:
rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com Sent: Sunday, October 28,
2007 10:50:28 AM Subject: RARA-AVIS: Re: At the Movies...
(300)
Kevin
Burton Smith <kvnsmith@.. .> wrote:
> 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.
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."
Best regards,
Mark Harris
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