"Thoughts on Cowboys"

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http://www.temenos.net/articles/01-02-05.shtml

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Driving across Texas, we think about the legendary reputation of this state. Nothing can parallel our experience here. Texas redeemed many things for us. Witnessing the crowds of men and women dressed in cowboy hats dancing with same sex partners in Dallas' Lone Star Saloon dispelled many prejudices and preconceived notions about the modern-day "cowboy". In our minds, before Texas, the cowboy hat was a quintessential symbol of insecure hetero male posing - worn by bullies in high school who beat up gay kids and bark orders at girlfriends, or by George W. Bush and his oil industrialist ilk. But suddenly we saw cowboy hats become a fun accessory again, worn by happy fags and dykes, displayed proudly in homage to the legendary ideals of brotherhood and sisterhood that swelter in the Texas air.

They say that when you come out of the closet (if you're a guy), you feel more masculine than ever before. If we believe masculinity is the ugly scowl on Donald Rumsfeld's face as he barks his way toward war at the expense of a million welfare mothers and breathable air, or George Bush's pathetic swagger across the White House lawn, then this would seem impossible.

But masculinity is so much more than that, and the gay men and women at the Lone Star showed us that masculinity doesn't have to be a fragile ground on which only big-mouthed straight men stand with clenched fists. Dancing arm in arm, those cowboy hat-wearing queers were far more confident about their sexuality and their bodies than our pathetic Napolean of a president could ever hope to be. There's few people alive less masculine than George W Bush. We'd pity the man if he wasn't so dangerous. Bush is your classic overcompensating heterosexual male, desperate to prove a manliness he's not even sure he has, and willing to go to any extremes to do so.

Now that we've been to Texas and redeemed our admittedly prejudiced view of cowboy accoutrements, we can say with proud conviction that big boy Bush doesn't deserve to wear a cowboy hat. He and all the other bullies who terrorize the rest of the world with threats and accusations because they're too wussy to reach out, just as easily as they turn a blind eye to homeland terrorists who threaten the lives of millions of gay kids are a disgrace to the legendary ideals that Texas, that this country, that humankind were founded upon. They're a disgrace to masculinity. They're the reason masculinity has become so synonymous with abuse and stupidity....

[Racenut20]

1. "Big Boy" is no more than a mamas boy school yard bully

He has only had friends in his early life because of money and the family position. Excuse me , gotta go puke.

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2. Here's the part that really attacks bush on not being masculine.

"Dancing arm in arm, those cowboy hat-wearing queers were far more confident about their sexuality and their bodies than our pathetic Napolean of a president could ever hope to be. There's few people alive less masculine than George W Bush. We'd pity the man if he wasn't so dangerous. Bush is your classic overcompensating heterosexual male, desperate to prove a manliness he's not even sure he has, and willing to go to any extremes to do so."

I agree completely with the fact that bush was born with advantages. Sorry I should have made the key parts in bold.

One thing though, his early years are past; he now has a recent pretty poor record that demonstrates he is such a coward. Instead of gaining Iraq's oil wealth, we lost, for a short period, our own oil. I wish I could better describe his current failures.

[TomInTib]

3. Thanks for the post. Despite what you might see on DU...

some of the finest, upstanding, coolest people I have ever known would not be caught in public without their hat on (or off if indoors).

note: I am NOT harry meirs writing about the Churlish Connecticut Cowboy.

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4. "Churlish Connecticut Cowboy" LOL!