Boondocks on "brokeback"

[David Bowie]

From:    RonButters at AOL.COM
> In a message dated 1/24/06 4:02:37 AM, db.list at PMPKN.NET writes:

>> The Boondocks cartoon from Sunday 22 January contains a "new slang
>> alert", defining "brokeback" as "used to describe anything of
>> questionable masculinity" and giving its etymology as "believed to
>> have originated from 2005 motion picture 'Brokeback mountain'".

>> It should be accessible through this link:
>> http://www.ucomics.com/boondocks/2006/01/22/

>> The question: Has anyone witnessed this in the wild, or is this an
>> attempt by Aaron McGruder to create a new term?

> I doubt that this will happen. There is nothing about the two men in
> the movie that suggests in any way that they are "of questionable
> masculinity."

Except that for lots of people, male homosexual behavior (or tendencies,
in fact) is prima facie evidence of questionable masculinity.

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