Most guys I talk to don't want to see "Brokeback Mountain". Why are they so  closed-minded and homophobic?
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I think guys are extra sensitive about gay issues because they're insecure. As if just seeing the movie will make those around them doubt their sexuality. I thought it was a good movie and yes, it was weird at first, but after the shock (stemming from being sheltered by media) I got into the story & it was really sad, blah blah blah. And yes, why is it more common to see girl-on-girl themes in movies or on TV. Like on those dating shows where the guy asks two girls to kiss. A guy would never kiss another guy to prove to a girl how kinky he is. If there's nothing wrong with us doing it then why is it so different for them? If I kissed another girl for fun nobody would call me a lesbian. But if a guy even just went to see this movie his friends would call him gay. The world just sucks that way.
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I think this has something to do with being branded gay themselves.It's stigmatic, although very narrow minded, it's still out there all over the world. People are afraid of anything, or one in this case who are different and make quick assumptions.Hey, I had two great big trucky guys living across the road from me, both looked like rough rednecks, but they where very gay.Lovely guys though. Men are very egoccentric when it comes to their own manhood.
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Because currently, it is a very taboo subject.\nPeople are scared of the unknown and things they don't understand, so to cover up for their ignorance they mock and disrespect gays.\n\nPeople can be real dumb sometimes.
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Seems like it don't it? Movie critics are deffinitely VERY in touch with thier feelings LOL... \n\nUsually if critics like a movie it's a really good sign I don't want to watch it so they do have SOME purpose in life.
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it shows that the ones who are the most vocally anti-gay are usually the biggest closet-case gays themselves.\n\nand gee!  tha's the way it is in real life, too, not just in the movies!
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I am not even going to waste my time and reply to most of what you are saying because you said yourself you CAN'T GET IT. But I just wanted to point out that you are wrong about animals and homosexuality, there is large numbers of research that shows homosexual activity in animals, all types of animals. So who says it isn't natural?\nHere are just a couple of links to studies done on it. One artical is even from the national geographic.\nSo maybe you should REALLY know what you're talking about before you get on a homophobic rant.\n\nEDIT\nOk since you really want to know. Then no I don't see it as an illness, and to me it is prefectly natural. As another poster said, I can still look at a man and see him as good looking, but when it comes to sex I am just not interested and i actually get grossed out at the thought some times. \nCan you think of a man that you know that you would NEVER want to think of sexually and if you did it would totally gross you out? Like a family member or maybe some nasty dude that lived down the street or the plummer with the hairy crack? Thats how I feel when I think of most guys sexually, I don't want any sweaty stinky .....thing coming anywhere near me.\nNow women on the other hand...true some of us can be sweaty and stinky and nasty but over all women are just beautiful, everything about a woman is beautiful, inside and out.
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I don't think so, i believe, a date is about starting to know each other, Brokeback mountain is a movie that you can hate or you can love, it's so polemic that you can end the relation the same day you started it. \nHumans become so exalted when you make your point on subjects like homosexuality, religion and politics, that i don't think a first or second date is good to use those subjects. You have to see something that is more ligth!\nIf you have a girlfriend, wich whom you know about her ideas, and agree with most of them, then you can enjoy this movie, cause it is a GREAT LOVE MOVIE!!!\n\nAh, and i was forgotting to say, that this migth look like you are trying to get out of the closet, it's dangerous too.
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Homophobia is a fear/belief really, much easier changed than sexuality.  I've known people in my life that were very homophobic but changed their views after getting to know a few gay people.   I guess that's the secret, the closest there is to a cure, letting people with those attitudes get to know as people instead of remaining a faceless avatar to them.   As a gay male as much as I would love for everyone to universally accept us, we don't have the right to tell someone what they can or can't believe.  When dealing with a people like this it's ok to be assertive, but I refuse to gve them even an iota of power over me by letting their words hurt me.
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I'd say there are a number of diffeent reasons for people to be interested in this sort of thing.\n\nFor one, lesbians and gays have become more accepted than ever before in the past couple decades, which is something new to certain groups of older people, homosexual or not.  and it's something interesting to younger people too because there is really no History of Gay People and thus the big 'boom' is  sort of a compensation for years of keeping it behind the curtains.\n\nAlso, for many heterosexual people, the lives and ways of gays and lebians can feel so different, like a different culture or something like that.  They are a minority, you know.  So it's like learning about them to watch these films and read these books, just like watching a movie about Canadians or something (haha). Sure, it's a bit stupid, cinsidering they AREN'T a different ethnicity or somehting, but people will go to many lengths to learn about things they don't understand.\n\nAnd then, of course, the idea of two men together, or two women together, can be twice as arousing as heterosexual romance/sex.  I mean, instead of seeing someone of your own sex with the hottie, you get to see/imagine/read about two hotties!  Haha...\n\nBut for me, the reason I find myself intrigued, is bacause they are the people who are all around me each day.  More and more people, old and young are coming out, and when they are your friends and family, you sort of just come to see them as yor average Joe as much as heterosexual people are.  I mean, if there are so many movies and books about heterosexual people, why not homosexual people too, right?\n\nNot to mention, het romance is so much more dull for me these days.  I'm a writer and I read a lot, and homosexual fiction (female or male) just has so many more elements of drama and angst and all that jazz to it.\n\nAs far as the moral thing goes, I think it does go against a lot of people's morals, but they are learning to let their morals adapt to modern society or just accepting things as they are.  That's life after all.\n\nHope that answered your question!
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As a straight female, I have no shame in admitting I think two men kissing is absolutely sexy.  So sexy.  I love it.  I love gay porn.  Man on man is my bag.  Entirely.\n\nBut I understand that it isn't everyone's.  If homosexual acts gross you out, you shouldn't be forced to watch them and I don't think it makes you a bigot.  There are heterosexual acts that gross me the hell out and it certainly doesn't make me a heterosexual bigot.  I also feel queasy watching lesbians, but I have no prejudices against them.\n\nThat's the difference between just not being comfortable with watching gay sex scenes and being a bigot:  If you vote to restrict homosexual rights and discriminate against them, you're a bigot whether you can stomach watching homosexuals loving on each other or not.  You're not a bigot, just a guy who knows what he does and doesn't like.  No worries.
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i wouldn't mind watching them from time to time. sometimes the usual boy/girl love story can get boring. besides, why should love stories be limited to heterosexual couples when there are also tons of gay and lesbian couples around, each story is as interesting as the usual boy/girl love story. brokeback mountain, anyone?
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Actually, I think most straight guys don't like being around gay guys.  There can be several reasons for this, but the most common ones are because they can't relate to a man who is not attracted to a woman like they are and because they fear that gay men are checking them out and objectifying them the same way they know they do to women.  Putting the shoe on the other foot makes them uncomfortable.
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It creeps me out! gay guys dont bother me but, I also dont hang out with them. lesbians scare the hell out of me, its gross and stay away.
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Because they are projecting their own homoerotic thoughts onto the women. You'll notice, most men who are crazy about lesbians are also homophobic. Psychologically they are saying 'YOU are the gay one..Not Me'. Most of the psychological community agrees on this.
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Because a)everyone else is like a flock of sheep in the fact that they try to look, be, & act just like everyone else and don't care to form their OWN opinion on things b) a lot of these people get angry because they sometimes regret their own choices and wish they could be more like you & c)are codependant and could never imagine 'being alone' either now or when they get older. People are just nosy in general and it isn't any of their business. I have friends like you and have asked them the question of why not just out of curiosity though. I support & applaud your decision! Next time just make up something interesting like you saw the Exorcist and just didn't want to take that chance!
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It attempts to force homosexuality down people's throats (hey, I made a funny).  It goes out of its way to superimpose what is obviously abnormal on to a traditionally masculine role.\n\nLots of little boys identify with bein a cowboy.  So, let's make a movie about gay cowboys to get them to accept gays as normal.  Not only is this sickening but it causes quite a strong reaction because gays are not normal (if they were, homosexuality would be completely accepted by almost everyone in society).  To try and brainwash people into this is more than a little insulting.  And there has been a huge backlash, especially since the movie is of poor quality.\n\nGay folks, here is a clue.  You want to be accepted by everyone in mainstream society?  Stop being freaks.  Homosexuality is normal and has been accepted as such throughout human history.  However, you are not normal and that's a problem.  That problem is easily solved.
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WELL, AS A WOMAN IT DIDNT BOTHER ME REALLY. I WOULD SAY THAT MOST HETEROSEXUAL MEN MIGHT HAVE SOME ISSUES SEEING IT. IT IS A WESTERN, BUT IS ROMANTICLY BASED AND HAS SOME SEX TYPE SCENES THAT ARENT GRAPHIC, BUT YOU BASICLY KNOW WHATS GOIN DOWN BETWEEN THEM. I WOULDNT RECOMMEND THAT PEOPLE SHOW THEIR KIDS IF THATS SOMETHING THEY HAVE NOT SPOKEN TO THEIR KIDS ABOUT. I WATCHED IT, BUT I AM PRETTY SURE THAT MY HUSBAND, WHO IS NOT FOND OF SEEING THAT KINDA THING, WILL NEVER AND SHOULD NEVER WATCH IT. AS IT WOULD DEFINATLY DISTURB HIM. BUT 2 EACH HIS OWN.