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ruggerson Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-11-05 01:04 AM
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Freak Republic Is Obsessed! Eight threads on Brokeback Mountain!
Eight threads chock full of almost laughably insane homophobia.

Eight threads bulging at the seams with mindless, parody-of-themselves bigotry.

Who says these people are not obsessed?

When cultural historians look back on this era and wonder what kind of odd, fucked up, bizarre people propogated such hate against gays and lesbians, they will have to look no farther than this:



To: Coastal

Nasty queers have to pervert everything.

2 posted on 11/07/2005 8:28:39 AM PST by lady lawyer
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The preview for this trash came on at the movie theater we were at the other day. The preview itself is enough gay propaganda to make you sick. It showed two grown men holding each other, rubbing all over each other, and laying on the ground together...and the theater was full of kids.

The whole thing was sickening.

17 posted on 11/07/2005 8:37:17 AM PST by russesjunjee
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To: Coastal

When will they break the Beastiality bearier????

20 posted on 11/07/2005 8:38:48 AM PST by Always Right

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Rump Riders unite!

5 posted on 12/10/2005 6:32:39 PM PST by brivette

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To: Paul8148

Those Hollywood HIV fundraisers must be fun, as well as self perpetuating.

6 posted on 12/10/2005 6:32:57 PM PST by billhilly
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To: Paul8148

So, do gay cowboys sit side-saddle, or do they ride with the saddle on backwards?

7 posted on 12/10/2005 6:34:56 PM PST by Hodar
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To: Paul8148

Sodomite cowboys, hard to believe.

8 posted on 12/10/2005 6:35:58 PM PST by ncountylee

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The whole idea still makes me nauseated.

4 posted on 12/09/2005 10:17:01 AM PST by DustyMoment

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To: NativeNewYorker

Time for a crack back on the Devientcy.

15 posted on 12/09/2005 10:21:46 AM PST by samadams2000
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1538060/posts
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And on and on... ad nauseum... eight threads worth.....



http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1538060/posts

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1537234/posts

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1536990/posts

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1536849/posts

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1536370/posts

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1535946/posts

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1522478/posts

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1517357/posts
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liberalnurse Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-11-05 01:13 AM
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1. Please restrain yourself......
This is not a healthy alternative.
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Texasgal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-11-05 01:13 AM
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2. Must be a slow news day....
*sigh*
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KingFlorez Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-11-05 01:14 AM
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3. It's simple
It's self-loathing
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Starbucks Anarchist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-11-05 01:15 AM
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4. Yep, projection does wonders.
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waiting for hope Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-11-05 01:18 AM
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8. I think they are just
Edited on Sun Dec-11-05 01:19 AM by waiting for hope
homophobic myself....:spank:
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mcctatas Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-11-05 02:00 AM
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29. There was a study done where male subjects were polled on their
attitudes towards homosexuality. They were then split into two groups, those with a high level of homophobia and those with a low level of homophobia...now here's the good part...the two groups were then shown gay porn while wearing a thin wire around their willies to measure any ...shall we say interest...what it found was the higher the level of homophobia and anymosity towards gays, the more arousal was recorded...

Of course, that's science and the freepers don't need no stinking science;):rofl:
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awoke_in_2003 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-11-05 03:11 AM
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35. Probably comes from suppressing...
their feelings. I would think that most people would be curious what it must be like to have a gay encounter. I have wondered myself, and feel confident in myself to admit that. I know that does not make me a bad person. It does not make me any less "straight", as my wife could attest to. They (homophobes) are scared of this, refuse to acknowledge it, suppress it, letting it build into hate. They don't know themselves, so they are fearful people. Just my 2 cents.
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Maat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-11-05 01:16 AM
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5. Hmmm ... wonder if any of them have issues with their own sexuality?
Bet you saw a whole bunch of threads on the story about the Duke-Cunningham-related scandal reaching way out ... and how hundreds of millions of dollars went to phoney-baloney defense companies, and wound up in certain Republican congressional campaigns. I bet they were irate about how that money could have helped the deteriorating infrastructure in this country and ensured that every American had health insurance.

:rant:
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kevinbgoode Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-11-05 01:43 AM
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24. How can they have issues with their sexuality
when it obviously consists of putting a little lipstick between their forefinger and thumb. . .
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mcctatas Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-11-05 01:16 AM
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6. "When will they break the Beastiality bearier????"
Edited on Sun Dec-11-05 01:19 AM by mcctatas
when will these hate mongering fuck wits learn to spell. Or if that takes to much grey matter away from thinking about stringing up gays, when will they learn to use spell check? My blood boileth over!!!:grr:

* on edit: besides, didn't Scooter already bust through the bestiality barrier with that bear on girl sex scene in his book??:rofl:
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Blue_In_AK Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-11-05 01:27 AM
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12. Fucking bears???
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mcctatas Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-11-05 01:38 AM
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18. I don't know if there was actual penetration per se...
but yep, From the New Yorker article about his book:

"At age ten the madam put the child in a cage with a bear trained to couple with young girls so the girls would be frigid and not fall in love with their patrons. They fed her through the bars and aroused the bear with a stick when it seemed to lose interest"

Homoeroticism and incest also figure as themes. The main female character, Yukiko, draws hair on the “mound” of a little girl. The brothers of a dead samurai have sex with his daughter. Many things glisten (mouths, hair, evergreens), quiver (a “pink underlip,” arm muscles, legs), and are sniffed (floorboards, sheets, fingers). The cast includes a dwarf, and an “assistant headman” who comes to restore order after a crime at the inn. (Might this character be autobiographical? And, if so, would that have made Libby the assistant headman or the assistant headman’s assistant?)

And, finally:

He asked if they should fuck the deer.


The answer, reader, is yes.










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Blue_In_AK Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-11-05 01:42 AM
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21. Now, that's just sick...
What kind of perverse mind thinks up this kind of stuff?
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awoke_in_2003 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-11-05 06:59 AM
Response to Reply #21
40. It is from Scooter Libbys book
forgot title, though.
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HeeBGBz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-11-05 12:31 PM
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44. The Apprentice
:puke:
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Crunchy Frog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-11-05 01:34 AM
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16. It was a freudian slip on his part.
whoever wrote that is obviously harboring secret fantasies of messing around with bears. Sounds interesting, but maybe a little dangerous.:shrug:
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mcctatas Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-11-05 01:40 AM
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20. Hey, I'm a her...
and it is totally true, I shit you not!:toast:
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Crunchy Frog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-11-05 02:01 AM
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30. I was referring to the freeper, not you.
I was guessing that the freeper who wrote that must harbor secret fantasies of bear-love, and I assumed the poster to be a he.

Not that there's anything wrong with that.
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Norrin Radd Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-11-05 01:38 AM
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19. No. That barrier was broken long before by Raygun:
Bedtime for Bonzo.



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Kurovski Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-11-05 03:01 AM
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33. It looks like his wife liked to watch.
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HeeBGBz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-11-05 12:29 PM
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43. Ask Scooter
He's the expert.
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Skip Intro Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-11-05 01:18 AM
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7. Those freakers need to get laid.
They're waaaaaaaaay too uptight.
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CarpeDiebold Donating Member (652 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-11-05 01:22 AM
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9. i think all the sheep in this country are taken
unfortunately
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alittlelark Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-11-05 01:43 AM
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23. ROTFL!!!
:evilgrin:
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belle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-11-05 03:22 AM
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37. Are you volunteering? Because I'm thinking, "no."
I think I'd prefer the bear, actually...
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ruggerson Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-12-05 08:53 PM
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59. They're up to eleven threads on this now
think they have issues?
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SoCalDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-11-05 01:25 AM
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10. "...Time for a crack back on the Devientcy...."
they just never let me down
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DemInDistress Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-11-05 01:27 AM
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11. Are their no "Gay Republicans ?"
Just who in the Whitehouse was "Jeff Bulldog Gannon" humping? Two years he lurked inside the inner circles of
the Bush Crime Family, someone was getting porked, but who? Scotty? Rove? Bush himself? Hmm....
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Skip Intro Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-11-05 01:30 AM
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13. They're probably all gay. They're proven hypocrites. You assume pride.
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Jamastiene Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-11-05 01:37 AM
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17. Unfortunately, there are gay republicans.
I think of them as the "dark side of homosexuality." Shame on them for helping the enemies of tolerance.
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kevinbgoode Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-11-05 01:33 AM
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14. ROTFLMAO. . .
And brought to you by the Freepers....America's original inventors of the perverse and indecent. . .

Hon, no wonder the Freeps are all about this movie - with the number of Republican sex deviants and offenders who serve/have served as public officials, this is the kind of movie that should make their hearts sing.

As usual, they focus on the sexual, once again proving that hetero-supremacist men are incapable of honoring their own biblical tenets of focusing on their own mate. hmm..maybe we should refer to it as "Brokeback Mountain - A Freeper Biography"


*sighs*...I'm sure the wingnuts are preparing a major boycott/ban/march/screamfest against this movie...I'm prepared. I'll just ask where they were when Making Love was released in 1982.
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bluestateguy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-11-05 01:33 AM
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15. Let's be honest here
If they had their way, they'd put all the gays into Nazi-style death camps. They will never come out and say it, but that is what they want, deep down. Oh, I suppose maybe they would "allow" gays to go to "reparative therapy" first, but otherwise they would send them off to the ovens and gas chambers.
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kevinbgoode Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-11-05 01:47 AM
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25. Well, if there is one thing about the credibility of a Freeper threat
it's that they would never have the balls to carry it out. And they'd never be able to live down the embarassment of a drag queen kicking their sorry asses without breaking a sweat.

They only hate gays because...well, because if there is one final thing that can completely destroy a straight man's ego, it is finding out that not even a gay guy finds you attractive.

Ouch..well, I shoulda been more polite...well, heck no - they started a damned war on Hannukkah!
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ruggerson Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-11-05 01:56 AM
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27. They had these buff gay guys on Howard Stern's tv show
a couple of weeks ago.

Stern asked each of them which of the straight guys in his crew (a pretty motley bunch) the gay guys would sleep with.

They went through the lineup and asked each gay guy about each of Stern's straight crew.

The gay guys unanimously said they didn't find any of the straight guys attractive in the least and wouldn't "do" any of them.

The show ended with one of Howard's crew, this fat long island sounding guy, who came into the hall when they were leaving and said, "I don't think any of you guys are really gay. I would do ANY woman. You guys are fucked up."

He was very upset. He had been turned down by not just one gay guy, but five of them.
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belle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-11-05 03:24 AM
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38. HA ha. "But but but...I'm DESPERATE! Surely that's just because I'm MALE
and not because I have a profound lack of social skills, hygiene, or indeed any noticeable redeeming qualities whatsoever!"
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ruggerson Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-11-05 12:00 PM
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41. lol
exactly.
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Guaranteed Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-11-05 01:51 AM
Response to Reply #15
26. What they want is to fulfill their sexual desires with gay men. nt
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kevinbgoode Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-11-05 01:42 AM
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22. ROTFLMAO!
And I love this Freepie entry:


"BUD: Someone sure did cut through that fence alright.

CURLEY: Yep.

BUD: Curley, you oughtta ride over that way and head off the leader of them there head 'a sheep.

CURLEY: Okay.

CURLEY: Y'know Curley, I think you've got a purty butt.

CURLEY: Why thankya Bud. If you don't mind me sayin', I think you gotta way more purty butt then mine.

BUD: Why, thankya kindly, Curley.

CURLEY: Hey Bud, you ever been with a man before?

BUD: Cain't rightly say I have, Bud. I prefer sheep. They ain't half as ornery as those whores back in Dodge city.

CURLEY: Yep. Whadya say we mosy over to the chuck wagon and have a romantic lantern-lit dinner fer two while eatin' beans and hard tack?

BUD: Okay."

I think that's called the sanctity of Freeper love. These guys ain't homophobic - they are gay as a goose! Being pathetic is just sooooooo passe, Freeperdudes. Yer butts are spozed to be fighting for this country, instead of making those cowboy gay guys do all the protectin' for your lazy asses.

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Fridays Child Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-11-05 01:59 AM
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28. "This movie is just immoral!" the freeper typed with one hand.
:evilgrin:
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NMMNG Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-11-05 02:28 AM
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31. I'm not even going go click on one of those nasty, hate-filled threads
:puke:

Who needs more of that crap in their life?


What I love is they do "code brown" because their kids see a trailer with two guys hugging, but think nothing of having them see hours of Jebus being brutally tortured and murdered. I guess the latter falls under "quality family entertainment". :eyes:
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melody Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-11-05 02:51 AM
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32. Those homophobes will come to terms with their homosexuality
They are to pitied and pushed toward accepting their gayness with pride. Maybe the
increasing fervor will force them to go see it (to report back, of course) and they
may come to some internal understanding.

Who'm I kidding?
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Mayberry Machiavelli Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-11-05 03:02 AM
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34. Did anyone actually SEE it? Come on! You know they're curious!!
LOL
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belle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-11-05 03:27 AM
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39. They're just miffed because they bought all those pro-Bush stickers:
you know, "My Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys."

yes, it is a shame that the erotic embraces of Jake Gyllenhaal and Heath Ledger are going to sour that perfect glowing image of masculinity that is Dubya in hat and chaps. YEEHAW
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Maven Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-11-05 12:37 PM
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48. LOL
Aaaaaannd it all comes full-circle. Thanks for that.
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w13rd0 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-11-05 03:21 AM
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36. Wow...
...to be ignorant of history AND completely bound-up inside with the topic. The boys that worked the mines loved when Oscar Wilde came to visit.

Black Cowboys
Gay Cowboys

Gee, it's enough to make a freepers head explode, knowing that sorta thing was happening back there in the wild west with the real men... Perhaps they should just like, get the fuck over themselves. Their sense of morality is twisted and corrupt.
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DaveColorado Donating Member (498 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-11-05 12:27 PM
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42. Most of them are bigots
This shouldn't be a surprise
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ruggerson Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-11-05 01:16 PM
Response to Reply #42
51. I think the dictionary definition of a bigot
is something like willfully or obstinately or ignorantly dedicated to one's opinions. They might as well have a little link right there to free republic.
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DanCa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-11-05 12:33 PM
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45. But they saw it so what does it tell you about them?
I think Jung would have a field day with our Freeper friends being such closet cases.
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kevinbgoode Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-11-05 12:35 PM
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47. It tells them that they are jealous at how women will
flock to the theaters to see how REAL men fall in love.
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AnnieBW Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-11-05 01:42 PM
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54. They've Obviously Never Heard of Slash Fanfiction
There's a whole sub-genre of fan fiction called "slash", that involves two characters of the same gender falling in love and/or having sex. It's very popular with a lot of female fans, who "like to know what the boys are up to". So, I predict that BBM will be a hit, at least with them.
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AlienGirl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-11-05 01:53 PM
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56. Yep. Lots of women like watching (or reading about) men loving men
There is an entire genre of fan-fiction about male characters from TV shows falling in love with each other. Man-with-man love appeals to lots of straight and bi women in the same way that lesbian sex scenes appeal to many straight and bi men.

Tucker
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K8-EEE Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-11-05 12:33 PM
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46. Cowboys Are Frequently Secretly Fond Of Each Other
LOL, I remember when Willie Nelson said that on Bill Maher, it's the title of some song or someting.
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chat_noir Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-11-05 12:39 PM
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49. Hotdogs for Homophobes
Ever been bothered about the shape and size of a hotdog? Worry no more.

http://www.maxim-magazine.co.uk/stupidfun/videoclips/2735/ad_spoofs.html
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AndreaCG Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-11-05 12:50 PM
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50. That was great!
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terrya Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-11-05 01:29 PM
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52. I'm very interested in knowing the box office this weekend.
Edited on Sun Dec-11-05 01:32 PM by terrya
I know "Brokeback Mountain is playing only in New York and LA this weekend. But I'd like to find out how it did at the box office.

I predict it will be very successful. One of the biggest hits of the year. It's getting rave reviews everywhere and the word of mouth and publicity (thanks, Free Repubic!) will make it a myst-see film for a lot of people. Myself certainly included. I only wished it was playing here in Chicago this weekend.

This is a film that's engendering a lot of controversy. Neither of the two main characters self-identify as gay. But the relationship...sexual and love...just develops naturally. Both Ennis and Jack recognize a mutual attraction to one another. And ultimately, one of them pays the ultimate price for it. It's a very sad, poignant ending.

It's the linking of stereotypical heterosexual male stereotypes (cowboys) and same-sex feelings that has the panties of the slack-jawed numbskulls at Free Republic all bunched up. "Brokeback Mountain" is slaughtering some cherished beliefs here. And that's what some ignorant homophobes can't accept. I read Annie Proulx's story and thought it was poetry. One of the most honest, heartfelt love stories I've ever read.

If FR hates it, then it must be a masterpiece. :-)
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frazzledmom Donating Member (244 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-11-05 01:37 PM
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53. Try Box Office Mojo for quick BO reports
here's a link to this weekend:

http://www.boxofficemojo.com/weekend/chart/

Brokeback came in 16th place. That looks bad but actually it's on limited release this week and the numbers that it's posting are a good sign. It's in 16th place but only showing on 5 screens. Consider that the number one film, Narnia, is on 3600 screens, once BM opens wide it should do fairly well.
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DaveColorado Donating Member (498 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-11-05 01:54 PM
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57. Some of these are pretty funny
Edited on Sun Dec-11-05 01:54 PM by DaveColorado
To: OpusatFR

Imagine the disgust of some average Joe picking this up at a Blockbuster a year from now, thinking it is just a western.

78 posted on 12/09/2005 6:27:47 AM PST by Sybeck1 (Dr. Adrian Rogers, September 12, 1931 - November 15, 2005)
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The person who didn't know how to spell "indecency" was class.
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ruggerson Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-11-05 01:42 PM
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55. Brokeback, on a per screen basis, was #1 this weekend
$109,000 per screen. No other movie even came close.

Their release strategy is to open it limited and then spread out to the rest of the country as word of mouth spreads.

Seems to be working nicely.

http://www.boxofficemojo.com/weekend/chart/
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Beaverhausen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-12-05 08:58 PM
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60. Record breaking per screen average - $108,910
compared to #1 film Chronicle of Narnia's $18,547 per screen.

Syriana was the #2 film with a per screen average of $6,866!

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yurbud Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-11-05 01:57 PM
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58. Just imagine how they'll react to Jeff Gannon book & film
"The first time I met the president, I giggled like a little girl, but he put me at ease immediately.

"I'm gonna call you Bulldog," he said authoritatively, "cuz I want you to treat me the way a bulldog treats a bone. I'm a powerful man, so it's hard to get people to put me in my place and slap me around. Now knock me down and rub my face on the carpet..."

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meisje Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-12-05 08:59 PM
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61. What does this have to do with Tookie
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