Brokeback Mountain
Went and saw this, finally, with SO today. I enjoyed it a great deal - in part because of the scenery, which is perhaps odd, but I spent enough of my childhood summers in the Rockies that I love these vistas. Not going to write a proper review of it. But have a few related thoughts to put down, mostly on the aspect of sexuality at this time.
( Miscellaneous ideas... some spoilers )
( Miscellaneous ideas... some spoilers )
While theoretically I think dropping orientation ids is a great notion, practically it would be disasterous for those of us who're in the minority and single. Where would we go to find ppl to date? It'd make the process of trying to find love like finding a needle in a haystack (believe me, I live that life b/c I avoid the lesbian bars, and it means a lot of no-dating- at this point it's unlikely that I will ever find another partner). This isn't saying that finding love is easy for mixed-sex couples, but the sheer numbers and cultural norms are in favor of mixed-sex pairings. Society is set up to help men and women hook up w/each other. If we drop orientation ids, in society as it stands, than those of us not looking for an opposite-sex lover are losing about the only assistance our cultural has to help us.
(I also think that orientation ids help many of us regain a sense of personal pride, or maintain that sense, while dealing w/the negative results of prejudices against us b/c of who makes us hot- but that's another long argument).
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Well... it's not necessarily easy for M/F couples to get together either, but I get your point. I think it's not that I'm totally against such labels, when they serve a useful purpose (and finding a partner is one), but that they're so often misused. Person X is lesbian, and therefore I will assume A, B, and C about her, and deny her the same rights as a straight woman.
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