For this Friday I decided to dig, a little deeper, into that mysterious male psyche I never quite understand.
What better place to start than with a male chick-flick, the action film?
“Tobias Bluth” is best-described as a “…deeply closeted homosexual” from the series Arrested Development.
This is a video montage of his erotic outbursts:
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five comments
I find pretty much all action flicks an expression of overcompensation, whether it's to mask homosexuality or simply to exaggerate masculinity.
That being said, I think Rambo 4 was kinda awesome.
Posted by Anton
November 7, 2008, 7:45 PM
Dude, your review was hilarious. Love the aviator glasses! And any inclusion of Tobias Funke, Analrapist, in anything at all, no matter how tangentially related, is always appreciated by me. As for action flicks, yeah, I definitely think you're on to something there, although that sort of latently homosexual blockbuster seems to have faded in popularity, with Schwartzenegger and Stallone replaced by Matt Damon as Jason Bourne, although the male-gaze stimulating James Bond franchise is definitely still going strong.
It's sad to me that action flicks are so often stereotyped as entertainment for men, as if no woman has ever enjoyed watching one, despite the long term popularity of characters like Sarah Connor, Ripley, and Buffy the Vampire Slayer. I think the female audience for action movies would be much higher if only they weren't such bastions of male chauvinism. I always find it funny that studio execs are so set on attracting men by excluding women, as if women weren't half their viewing audience.
Posted by Michelle
November 8, 2008, 4:36 PM
Sounds like Top Gun with the homoerotic angle. Didn't Plato advocate a sort of chaste man-love?
Posted by woolly mammoth
November 11, 2008, 9:07 PM
The Jackal doesn't have a gay angle, it has a 'g0y' angle!
"g0y" (gee-zero-why) is something I just discovered online yesterday. Go to g0y.org and be prepared to either laugh, or shake your head, or both!
Cocogrrl
Posted by cocogrrl
November 13, 2008, 11:25 PM
Very thoughtful. I'm going to check this movie out and get back to you. Keep up the deep and sometimes difficult conversation of masculinity and femininity.
Posted by MarstonH
January 8, 2009, 5:03 AM
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