punkypink (imported) wrote: Tue Apr 10, 2012 9:04 pm Gee I thought I'd point out the obvious that the key focus of brokeback mountain as a movie was the storyline, not it's sex scenes. And actually it was also meant as much for anyone who'd mentioned the kissing scene wasn't "doing it" for them, rather than any one specific individual. As River says in an IM, don't be thin skinned and don't take everything personally. If someone is frank and make no apologies in finding what they find beautiful, then the last thing to do is to take me to task for being equally frank.

I don't know why people are shocked to see 2 men kiss personally. Christina Aguilera's MTV for "Beautiful" had 2 men kissing and I thought that was so beautiful it brought a tear to my eye, and as a lesbian I am even more into women kissing than men kissing than just about ANY of you, so I fail to see why it's shocking. As for straight guys finding such a scene "not doing it" for them, fair enough, but that really wasn't the point of the movie, so it seems irrelevant to mention it. This reminds me of a conversation with an asshole I once had, who said that lesbians are hot while gay men should be shot. Granted his was a far more extreme manifestation of heterosexism, but hey, if we're talking about principles.... then it seems superfluous to mention that the kissing scene of brokeback mountain wasn't giving someone watching the movie a raging hardon either.

Now no matter how mild a display of male heterosexist attitudes might be, I'm not entirely sure those sort of prejudiced sentiments belong in a place as progressive as the EA. That is all.

punkypink (imported) wrote: Tue Apr 10, 2012 9:04 pm Gee I thought I'd point out the obvious that the key focus of brokeback mountain as a movie was the storyline, not it's sex scenes. And actually it was also meant as much for anyone who'd mentioned the kissing scene wasn't "doing it" for them, rather than any one specific individual. As River says in an IM, don't be thin skinned and don't take everything personally. If someone is frank and make no apologies in finding what they find beautiful, then the last thing to do is to take me to task for being equally frank.

I don't know why people are shocked to see 2 men kiss personally. Christina Aguilera's MTV for "Beautiful" had 2 men kissing and I thought that was so beautiful it brought a tear to my eye, and as a lesbian I am even more into women kissing than men kissing than just about ANY of you, so I fail to see why it's shocking. As for straight guys finding such a scene "not doing it" for them, fair enough, but that really wasn't the point of the movie, so it seems irrelevant to mention it. This reminds me of a conversation with an asshole I once had, who said that lesbians are hot while gay men should be shot. Granted his was a far more extreme manifestation of heterosexism, but hey, if we're talking about principles.... then it seems superfluous to mention that the kissing scene of brokeback mountain wasn't giving someone watching the movie a raging hardon either.

Now no matter how mild a display of male heterosexist attitudes might be, I'm not entirely sure those sort of prejudiced sentiments belong in a place as progressive as the EA. That is all.