Jesus won't be bringing the Milk Duds
Apparently the religious conservatives have finally decided to vocally come out against "Brokeback Mountain," now that it's leading the lot in Oscar nominations.
Why did it take them so long? Recall their earlier reasoning: They seriously purported that if they didn't talk about their opposition to the movie to the press, there would be no controversy, no buzz and thus no reason for anyone to report on the film or want to go see it.
Karl Rove is obviously occupied elsewhere, because that one bombed and but good. But now, like the proverbial cockroaches who survive the culture war fallout just to spite us all, they're back and hissing.
There was a member of "Concerned Women for America" on "World News Tonight" yesterday talking about how the movie industry, being so horribly out of touch with the "mainstream America" her kind represents, must have a "death wish" to be making gay-themed movies and nominating them for awards.
Well, if anyone should know about pushing for things utterly contrary to one's own interests, it's a member of Concerned Women for America, but come on: Religious right, only in your most sordidly prurient, sick, wrong and impious dreams do you command that much power.
You're not going to bring down the entire industry by deciding to skip a few movies. If anything, you're going to give it a boost, because you're probably the same people who treat public movie theatres as your private living rooms and make the experience painful for the rest of us.
If more of you are staying home, going to a movie just looks that much more appealing to those of us who do so precisely to escape your lame, ordinary "mainstream America" for a couple of hours via popcorn and pretty pictures.
Why did it take them so long? Recall their earlier reasoning: They seriously purported that if they didn't talk about their opposition to the movie to the press, there would be no controversy, no buzz and thus no reason for anyone to report on the film or want to go see it.
Karl Rove is obviously occupied elsewhere, because that one bombed and but good. But now, like the proverbial cockroaches who survive the culture war fallout just to spite us all, they're back and hissing.
There was a member of "Concerned Women for America" on "World News Tonight" yesterday talking about how the movie industry, being so horribly out of touch with the "mainstream America" her kind represents, must have a "death wish" to be making gay-themed movies and nominating them for awards.
Well, if anyone should know about pushing for things utterly contrary to one's own interests, it's a member of Concerned Women for America, but come on: Religious right, only in your most sordidly prurient, sick, wrong and impious dreams do you command that much power.
You're not going to bring down the entire industry by deciding to skip a few movies. If anything, you're going to give it a boost, because you're probably the same people who treat public movie theatres as your private living rooms and make the experience painful for the rest of us.
If more of you are staying home, going to a movie just looks that much more appealing to those of us who do so precisely to escape your lame, ordinary "mainstream America" for a couple of hours via popcorn and pretty pictures.
posted by Holly at 3:38 AM
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