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December 18, 2005
Gray Lady Rides the Gay Cowboy Hobbyhorse
The American West is more than a region. It's more than a culture. It's a vast symbol, representing things like freedom, self-reliance, and virility. No wonder the Left hates it so much. No wonder they would like to subvert and corrupt it.
This should help explain the overblown hype over the limited-release movie "Brokeback Mountain." As a movie, it may or may not have its merits, but its merits as a movie are irrelevant. After all, how many people outside of Manhattan would be willing to sit through a gay cowboy love story for its own sake? This isn't a movie — it's a tactical maneuver in a propaganda war.
The New York Times, the vanguard of the Left in this war, is squeezing all it can out of the movie's release. Two thirds of the front page of today's Sunday Styles section is devoted to an article about oppressed gay cowboys. You have to hand it to the Times: they must have done some serious digging to come up with not one but two Wyoming residents who regard themselves as gay cowboys (although they did have to resort to also including a male hairdresser who lives in Cheyenne and some guy who grew up on a sheep ranch in Idaho). A blurb proclaims:
To some gay men in Wyoming, "Brokeback Mountain" isn't just a story. It's a documentary.
If "Fahrenheit 9/11" can be a documentary, why can't "Brokeback Mountain"? Both are aimed at the same audience of sneering liberal elitists, and both are political vehicles before they are movies, or only a handful of people would ever have heard of them.
"Where I live, you can't really go out and be yourself," a genuine gay cowboy whines to the Times. As a conservative employed in greater New York's vociferously intolerant publishing industry, I know what it's like to have to keep your head down, and yet I just can't work up much sympathy — not even when Matthew Shepard (who was killed in Wyoming seven years ago supposedly for being gay) is predictably disinterred yet again:
And Mr. Shepard's death soon assumed to moral and symbolic dimensions of martyrdom.
Christians may have Jesus. But the New York Times has Matthew Shepard.
They also have Frank Rich, who crows that the movie, which is "all the more subversive for having no overt politics, is a rebuke and antidote" to opposition to gay marriage.
Of course this isn't the first movie to sympathize with gays. What makes this one so exciting to moonbats is the political point being made — namely, that the Left can use Hollywood to superimpose their agenda on our ideal of the West.
Posted by Van Helsing at December 18, 2005 12:46 PM
Comments
You know, I could respect gay pride parades a little more if they'd just put on some damn pants!
Posted by: Junker at December 18, 2005 2:30 PM
Intersting how Hollyweird and the MSM try to portray this movie as some sort of "reality." I ought to know, I work with the cattle industry. Cowboys these days ride around in pick ups and ATVs, and horses only for pleasure, not work. They're too stupid.
Disgusting city slickers.
Posted by: Doug at December 18, 2005 2:38 PM
You mean gay Wyoming cowboys aren't commonplace? Libs don't understand normal America?
Yeah, right! The next thing I know, you'll be telling me that the liberal elitists who made vulgar references last year during the Kerry fundraiser weren't, as Monsieur Kerry put it, "the heart and soul of America"!
Posted by: Jonathan at December 18, 2005 9:32 PM
Bareback Mountain was based on a story written by a straight woman, E. Annie Proulx. (Check out her website, not only is she a lefty moonbat, but a pretentious git as well.) The screenplay was written by a straight male, Larry McMurtry, and a female, Diane Ossana.
What the movie basically reflects is the stereotypes comfortable liberal heterosexuals hold about gay life. It has all the authenticity of a 70's sitcom about inner city African-Americans (Good Times, What's Happening) penned by rich white writers from Beverly Hills.
Posted by: V the K at December 19, 2005 7:36 AM
"Cowboys these days ride around in pick ups and ATVs, and horses only for pleasure, not work."
lol, are we still talking about the gay cowboys here?
Posted by: Junker at December 19, 2005 4:30 PM
