Sherlock Holmes and the case of the spurious homophobic bitchey-whine.

[birkentree]

So, asshat says what?

I'm going to leave aside the obvious 'Men kissing? What self-respecting woman would want to see that?!' response. The darling, effervescent and mildly threatening pseudicide has that area covered.

I would however like to point an ever so small flaw in the sparkling, shiney-like-a-diamond logic of this.

They're not doing it. They're

Comments

[crazyjane13]

They know that making Holmes and Watson homosexual will take away two-thirds of their box office. Who is going to want to see Downey Jr. and Law make out? I don't think it would be appealing to women.

If he only knew ...

[scarlett_heartt]

Hell, that would get me to see the movie...

[deensey]

I love you so much and your points are good!

"straight acting"

[mordant]

"... is a fetishistic, masturbatory reading of masculinity; it’s mute, like a page torn from a porn or bodybuilding magazine. Gays [often] stop at sartorial and physical imitation, or cop a particular hypermasculine attitude drawn from some dreamy archive of fuzzy pornographic memories. ‘Masculinity’ in the gay community is more often than not a form of drag; it seems shallow and affected and silly-like some Halloween costume designed by the Village People. Many gay men want to look like men, but they’re unwilling to try or uninterested in really becoming men."
- Jack Malebranche

[queenlyzard]

Thank you.