Boondocks on "brokeback"

[neil]

on 1/25/06 4:50 PM, David Bowie at db.list at PMPKN.NET wrote:

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> From:    RonButters at AOL.COM
>> In a message dated 1/24/06 4:02:37 AM, db.list at PMPKN.NET writes:
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>>> 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'".
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>>> It should be accessible through this link:
>>> http://www.ucomics.com/boondocks/2006/01/22/
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>>> The question: Has anyone witnessed this in the wild, or is this an
>>> attempt by Aaron McGruder to create a new term?
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>> 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."
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> Except that for lots of people, male homosexual behavior (or tendencies,
> in fact) is prima facie evidence of questionable masculinity.
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*questionable masculinity*? -- excuse me, have you ever been in a leather
bar?

--Neil Crawford

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