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[Puglover]

This morning I read a review of Brokeback Mountain....here's the 1st paragraph.


"Does being grossed out by gay men having sex make me a homophobe? Does it make me a bad person? Intellectually I have no problem with it. Homosexuality doesn’t offend me or anything. If you’re into that, fine by me. Pick out wallpaper, get married, adopt kids. I’m all for it guys. The world sucks and if you can find something that makes you happy, whatever it is, you should do it! But that doesn’t change the fact that watching two guys have sex on screen makes me feel a little grossed out. It’s like eating something that you don’t like the taste of. Maybe on an intellectual level you know it’s good for you, or you know it’s something you should like, but there’s no getting past the taste. Spinach is gross, I can force myself to eat it, even tell myself I need it, but that doesn’t mean I’m going to enjoy it. Like most straight men, I don’t particularly enjoy looking at other naked, sexually aroused males. Whether he’s gay or straight, there’s nothing fun about watching a guy drop his drawers. It’s only worse when there’s two of them. It’s not a discrimination thing, it’s just a natural, straight guy thing.

On edit...here's the link if you wish to read it in it's entirety

http://www.cinemablend.com/review.php?id=1237

Here's what I wrote the guy....

We hardly know each other but your review of "Brokeback Mountain" makes me feel like I can be candid with you.

"Does being grossed out by gay men having sex make me a homophobe?" Answer: no. But by making the 1st (and very long paragraph) of a movie review all about explaining your fragility as a straight guy makes you somewhat pathetic. The spinach allegory is cute, real cute.

Thank god as a gay man, my psyche isn't so brittle that everytime I see straight folks kissing, or a womans body I need to tell the world that it makes me feel icky. Try, just try to put yourself outside of your comfortable little bubble and try to imagine what it might feel like (being gay) to read dreck like the 1st paragraph of your review.

This is one movie out of countless thousands that addresses this issue and you have to inform us all that one of it's flaws is that it's going to gross out straight men.

Lord Josh, get a clue.

What do you all think?