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**ulw7A8Po** · 01-26-2006, 06:07 PM

In defense of Winston and all the other uncomfortable straights trying to articulate their lack of desire to see this film, but showing their obvious curiousity, due to the media hype and evidenced by their posting in this thread, I submit the following.

The reason straight men don't want to watch a film with gay men is simple. To be a straight male, you can't have homosexual relationships or be seen doing anything remotely homosexually related without calling your heterosexuality into question. To be heterosexual is to literally walk the straight and narrow. To use a popular idiom, "once you play for the other team, you are not allowed back into the locker room." For a heterosexual to have his sexuality questioned would be socially catastrophic. It would call into question their identity and all of their core values. A complete realignment of their existence would have to be done. Gay and bisexual men on the other hand can watch heterosexuals without having their sexuality questioned. In the eyes of the straight community, they are already compromised. Heterosexual men can't even watch the Lifetime channel without having their manhood called into question.

01-26-2006, 06:07 PM	#26
ulw7A8Po Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 415 Senior Member	In defense of Winston and all the other uncomfortable straights trying to articulate their lack of desire to see this film, but showing their obvious curiousity, due to the media hype and evidenced by their posting in this thread, I submit the following. The reason straight men don't want to watch a film with gay men is simple. To be a straight male, you can't have homosexual relationships or be seen doing anything remotely homosexually related without calling your heterosexuality into question. To be heterosexual is to literally walk the straight and narrow. To use a popular idiom, "once you play for the other team, you are not allowed back into the locker room." For a heterosexual to have his sexuality questioned would be socially catastrophic. It would call into question their identity and all of their core values. A complete realignment of their existence would have to be done. Gay and bisexual men on the other hand can watch heterosexuals without having their sexuality questioned. In the eyes of the straight community, they are already compromised. Heterosexual men can't even watch the Lifetime channel without having their manhood called into question.
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