Twenty-two-year-old fellow Utahn Joshua (spideykeo@yahoo.com) comments below:
I am so sick of all of the POOR BLEADING HEART LIBRERALS that just don’t understand a thing about the natural ways of life. Take your ranting about Larry H Miller to somewhere or someone who cares like your gender-benders in arms in P Town, MA or Brattleboro VT!
I’ve not altered (read:corrected) the spelling, syntax, or punctuation.
Obviously.
The “natural ways of life,” eh? Well, the concept of natural is subjective. What’s natural to one person isn’t natural to another. It’s natural for me to be attracted to men even though to Josh it’s unnatural. Just like it’s unnatural for me to be an idiot even though to Josh it’s…
You get my point.
Anyway, I’m kinda curious how Joshy is so familiar with Provincetown’s reputation. I’ve had a lot of “same-sex attracted” (SSA) Mormon guys visiting lately, and they’re often self-loathing and riddled with internalized homophobia. Which, of course, frequently translates to hating me.
Or maybe I’m just an asshole.
Regardless, the SSA guys are another post in themselves.
Josh’s comment fits right in with the collection of hate mail I’ve received about the very popular gay Mormon missionary photos (next to Nate Berkus posts, they’re the most frequently visited part of Zionide). There are even a few angry public comments. Last fall I decided to stop deleting all but the very worst.
You know, besides my first year of undiscovered (and therefore uncensored) blogging, I’ve always tiptoed around here, not wanting to upset anyone, particularly someone local. I haven’t always succeeded, of course, but I’ve always tried to say things as nicely as possible if I thought it essential I say them. I usually ended up keeping my mouth shut completely, just to be safe. Aside from a handful of pretty heated soapbox moments, that is.
But given that I get angry emails from somebody no matter what, I decided earlier this week that I might as well vent freely, even if it doubles my flame mail. It’s not like I pay attention to it.
So to hell with tact. Ya’ll have been warned.
But there’s nothing bugging me enough to test that proclamation right now, anyway.
Though, knowing me, you can bet there will be in an hour or so.
January 12, 2006 at 9:41 am
Woot woot. Go you.
January 12, 2006 at 10:53 am
What, Nicky, like you didn’t expect this kind of shit to fly? You live in one of the most conservative states of a very conservative country. Frankly I blame a lot of the hype the film got as a ‘gay cowboy’ flick. Why couldn’t it just have been a story of doomed love and denial? Proulx’s story was about choices not taken and the screams not heard in the open dark. These themes are not new. They just have dicks now. Had BM been presented that way…I know, I know, it’s naive to think an affair of that kind of beauty wouldn’t be overtaken by the anatomy of the participants (see last three words of second sentence).
And that’s the sad part, that this very powerful story has to be a gay one, even though countless gay men have a stake in the narrative. But you’ll find parallels in the arranged marriages of Asian Brits, girls forced by intense societal pressure to throw their true selves away. I’ve seen it in women here who want the freedom to wear the veil, but want to be seen as Belgians, not Belgian Muslims. Literature is strewn with similar examples.
But the conservative old maids like Miller and Buttars, and the gay community alike, had to adopt this as a gay film. I haven’t seen the film and I won’t, for reasons I’ll tell you privately, if you e-mail me. But the story spoke to me of love and tragedy, and made me weep. There’s a universality there that has been ignored.
Anyway, enough ranting. I’m pleased you’re willing to channel your inner son of a bitch and let him loose to play. Come sit by me.
January 12, 2006 at 1:54 pm
Librerals? Those are the librarians opposed to the Patriot Act, right?
January 12, 2006 at 6:06 pm
I think most people who see the film (as I did last nite) would argue that the love story element was more pronounced that the characters’ alleged/imposed sexual orientations. That’s the buzz I hear anyway, and that’s exactly how I felt after seeing it.
January 12, 2006 at 11:35 pm
Thank you Larry H. Miller for making all we people from Utah look like morons to the rest of America.
Also, thank you Larry H. Miller for identifying your self as a bigot.
My family, friends and my self will all be boycotting Larry H. Miller Group business because we will not do business with bigots.
In addition to the above, Larry H. Miller should be made aware of the connection between Repressed Homosexuality and Homophobia.
See the following link:
http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=Repressed+Homosexuality+Homophobia&sm=Yahoo%21+Search&fr=FP-tab-web-t&toggle=1&cop=&ei=UTF-8
Or do a search on:
Repressed Homosexuality Homophobia
Larry H. Miller may inadvertently be identifying him self as homosexual.