tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14146381.post113946325564353244..comments2023-10-22T09:19:29.996-04:00Comments on I Hate The New Yorker: last brokeback mountain post. ever.zoe p.http://www.blogger.com/profile/02535684589288030978noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14146381.post-1139620675750268022006-02-10T20:17:00.000-05:002006-02-10T20:17:00.000-05:00oh, finally, i can stop figuring out how to say wh...oh, finally, i can stop figuring out how to say what i want to say about this movie and just point people toward this. what a sincere, eloquent, mature, humanistic review. thank you for presenting it to us, zp. <BR/><BR/>i don't know that the film is about political identity so much as regional identity, though the two are tough to disentangle these days. and i disagree with you, cosgrove and jeff, on i guess similarly regional grounds; the gay culture in montana is probably quite different from the more urban version that comes to mind when one hears the phrase "gay culture." i know gay boys who are just like straight boys in every way other than their sexual preference, but i doubt they'd go out of their way to make a semantic distinction. i'm having a little trouble articulating this exactly, but i feel that you're saying "gay" suggests something less respectable than "homosexual," and in my mind that's tantamount to defending the use of the word "gay" as a slur. it troubles me.<BR/><BR/>i've decided to close every discussion about this movie by sending a psychic bear hug to annie proulx, and in a way it's especially appropriate here, since the short story was originally published in <I>the new yorker</I>.juniper pearlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09940950405860078123noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14146381.post-1139521494187213482006-02-09T16:44:00.000-05:002006-02-09T16:44:00.000-05:00the distinction between gay as a cultural identity...the distinction between gay as a cultural identity and homosexual as in sex acts is a little muddled in mendelsohn's argument, especially in my excerpts.<BR/><BR/>i've been arguing, in the course of my 5 brokeback mountain posts, i think, that the film is about contemporary gay identity as a political identity . . . so we might not agree about that interpretation of the film, ever . . . <BR/><BR/>but more later . . .zoe p.https://www.blogger.com/profile/02535684589288030978noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14146381.post-1139515099221245542006-02-09T14:58:00.000-05:002006-02-09T14:58:00.000-05:00These men are not "gay"...they are homosexual. Gay...These men are not "gay"...they are homosexual. Gay is a culture where as homosexual is same sex attraction. This is NOT a gay film. <BR/><BR/>Thanks.Bobbyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15106079272572679269noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14146381.post-1139465135719490262006-02-09T01:05:00.000-05:002006-02-09T01:05:00.000-05:00"the new cookbook I'm obsessed with"oh boyI can't ..."the new cookbook I'm obsessed with"<BR/>oh boy<BR/><BR/>I can't believe I missed the closets. I must see it again.mznhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12336592183292185884noreply@blogger.com