Today's Example of an Egregious Use of Something a Writer Once Learned in Freshman Philosophy

[scalzi]

(Still fixing the Whatever. In the meantime, here's what I was going to post there this morning)

It comes from Matt Feeney in Slate, discussing whether various action films are homoerotic (in this case, the Keanu Reeves/Patrick Swayze Surf Crime Dude flick Point Break):

Indeed, claiming a macho film friendship is not-so-secretly gay has become

Comments

[janiece65]

Perhaps it's the Rand-ites who are conspiring to implode your technology.

And T-Squares? Completely gay.

[cmdrsuzdal]

Yanno, I've seen Keanu fans go to some pretty extreme lengths (dirty!) to defend his heterosexuality, but this is a new one.

[derrylm]

Explored to some extent in Hot Fuzz, and much hilarity ensued. Have you seen it?

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[stephen_dedman]

A few weeks ago, the300/'It's Raining Men' clip inspired me to write a not entirely dissimilar piece on homoerotic subtext in a hypothetical faithful-to-the-novel film adaptation of Heinlein's Starship Troopers, here

And here was the cast

[greyface]

All computer related stuff has been deemed Gay by way of Alan Turing. 'Leet speak, WoW, and XBox360 all fall under his gay umbrella. Gay inventions.
Apple is also gay. Not only is it stylish (gay) but it's all the fallout of a failed love-affair between Jobs and Woz.

And considering how much Rand was a flaming misogynist...