Vote for the MANliest Man! (spoiler: Brokeback men beating John Wayne!!!)

[peacebird]

"The publication of Harvard professor Harvey Mansfield's book "Manliness" coincides with the DVD release of "Brokeback Mountain." The first is a verbose and abstract treatise, the second a terse and eloquent illustration of the topic: what it means to be a man."

"On this issue, Hollywood provides a more nuanced analysis than Harvard does. In "Brokeback Mountain," Ennis and Jack, two wranglers who fall in love in the 1960s, belong to the same culture as the fictional characters played by Mansfield's hero, John Wayne. Cowboy notions of masculinity can't assimilate their love, but neither does their love erode their masculinity. The film is about the universal tension between defiance and conformism, between living free and living by a social code."


Okay DU - it's vote time! They want to know who's the manliest man!

results so far.....

26.2%
John Wayne (17 responses)

32.3%
The guys from Brokeback Mountain (21 responses)

3.1%
Tony Soprano (2 responses)

13.8%
Theodore Roosevelt (9 responses)

1.5%
Bart Simpson (1 responses)

20.0%
Arnold Schwarzenegger (13 responses)

0.0%
Howard Stern (0 responses)

3.1%
Margaret Thatcher (2 responses)

65 total responses


http://www.newsday.com/ny-etman4699083apr13,0,4099497.story

[xchrom]

1. wow -- did you read the critique on mansfield's work?

awesome!

[realisticphish]

2. no offense to the BBM guys

but they're beating JOHN FRIGGIN WAYNE? nooo way. Second? I dunno, perhaps, but c'mon, JW wins THAT battle

[Orsino]

3. No Bill Brasky!

Bill Brasky once ate an entire redwood on a dare. He chopped it down using the man who dared him!

To Bill Brasky! :toast: :toast: