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December 28, 2005
Boy on boy action
I was wondering if anyone was going to bring this up. . . .
Just a comment about straight men and their wives not going to “Brokeback Mountain.” Jeffrey, their wives will be going with the other wives. The straight husbands can stay home, hon. I'm constantly amazed by the perception of many men, straight and gay, that women 'won't be attracted to guy/guy action.' Do these guys ever get out and ask women about this? Roger Ebert said it the other night on some show, and Roeper agreed. Women just 'don't get off on guys kissing.'Mine was a little art house flick about 10 years ago with Antony Sher.“Well, hello. . . wrong. So so wrong. We just love it. Can't get enough. Not all of us to be sure, but sufficient numbers for there to be thousands of websites dedicated to the phenomen called 'slash.' Mostly derived from television shows and films, but many other fan fics and genuine gay romances.
”This is our movie...the slash movie we women have been waiting for forever.
It was a bit of a soap opera, but it was really hot. I've long had a thing for Antony Sher. Hairless baby-faced young WASPs don't do it for me so I'll probably skip “Brokeback Mountain.”
More manifesto from Mandy:
We own this film just as much as the gay guys, which makes for some fascinating territorial stakeouts and debates at times on the boards. But we generally enjoy the debates cuz we're all really on the same side here. And we're gonna be there in droves. Some of us will see it 10 or 20 times. It's hot. That idiot publicist who said Jake Gyllenhaal's career would be down the tubes because his teen fanbase would disown him should get a new job. His fanbase will multiply tenfold among women with this film.I don't read slash because I'm not that interested in the fandoms they derive from (I prefer John Preston and Lars Eighner) but hey - is this really news? How many years has Anne Rich been a mega best-selling author? Is there not a lot of gay sex in every novel she's ever written? Are all her readers gay men? There aren't that many gay men in the English-speaking world.“Women write about guy/guy action, guy/guy romance, and they buy gay porn and go to gay movies. And most of the women are straight, married (happily) and thirty to seventy. Do you know? Have you heard about this? If so, perhaps you might include it in a later column to just enlighten those poor guys who don't know what their women are secretly fantasizing about.
I'm from Australia by the way and will see Brokeback Mountain in a month with some girlfriends. My husband won't go near it. -- Mandy Bartels, Melbourne.
Judith | 12/28/05 at 06:29 PM | Categories: Life and how to live it
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