Boondocks on "brokeback"

[Wilson Gray]

I stand behind my position WRT the negativity in the use of
"brokedick" 'mongst the colored. However, I otherwise find what you
have to say insightful WRT "brokeback" as a "cloaking," so to speak,
expression for "bareback" in the sexual sense. Good eye!

-Wilson

On 1/24/06, RonButters at aol.com <RonButters at aol.com> wrote:
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> The full name is, after all, "Brokeback Mountain." It is not uncommon for
> topographical names to have "negative polarity" not is it uncommon for movies to
> contain words with "negative polarity."
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> I do find the film was a bit daring in selecting a title that is so close to
> "Bareback," given that that is a euphemism for unprotected anal sexual
> intercourse that is well known in American culture--and I seriously doubt that those
> cowboys carried condoms into the field in the 1960s (even though they were
> actually herding sheep).
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> In a message dated 1/24/06 7:20:53 AM, hwgray at GMAIL.COM writes:
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> > IMO, the latter use of "brokeback" has been extracted from the phrase,
> > _ADJ as a brokeback mule_, a very common BE expression.probably two
> > days older than water. I was a bit taken aback when I first learned
> > that there was a movie entitled "Brokeback" anything, given the total
> > negative polarity of the BE term, which is sometimes dysphemized as
> > "brokedick."
> >
> > -Wilson
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