My SO needs to educate his associates better

[tiggymalvern]

We just went to the (very nice indeed) seasonal dinner of local geeks. At the dinner, while talking about films, I bemoaned the fact that this afternoon we turned up at 1.05pm to see the 1.30 showing of Brokeback Mountain, and found a queue all around the corner and didn't get in ::sniff::

Geek 1: Which movie's that?
Geek 2: Oh, that's the gay cowboy movie.
Geek 1: Why would you want to go and see that?
Me: Well, let me see now....

How long has this geek spent prowling around the internet for bizarre things? And he's managed not to fall over slash? 0_0

The evening would have been better if we hadn't found a parking ticket on the car when we got back. We paid, dammit! We put our money in the box for our stall number! Go screw yourselves for your parking fine, bitches!

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[tiggymalvern.livejournal.com]

Actually, I was remarkably restrained, and confined myself to the generic principle of 'Two cute guys? What's not to like?' The geek then protested, more or less, 'But they're kissing each other!'

At which point, it was my sweet SO sitting between us who interrupted with, 'Well, you like lesbians, don't you? Same thing.'

That had the usual effect of rendering the geek briefly puzzled, but quiet!

[tameiki.livejournal.com]

Good for the SO! That's a great come back. :)

[tiggymalvern.livejournal.com]

It doesn't even really begin to cover why I like slash, but it's the answer that guys seem to find easiest to understand, rather than all the possible much longer explanations.

[nekojita.livejournal.com]

Hee, I had a similar discussion the other night at work! Someone mentioned Brokeback Mountain, and I said I wanted to see it. So the male coworkers were all 'why would you want to see a gay cowboy movie?'. My response was, of course, 'because they're two cute gay cowboys'. I had to point out that just as some men like the concept of two women together, that some women enjoy seeing/reading about two men (or more!) together. My more enlightened coworker agreed that he could see the sense behind that.

But they all went quiet when I told them my boyfriend would willingly go w/ me to the movie because when I'm 'happy', he's 'happy'.

[tiggymalvern.livejournal.com]

*snort!* I can see them considering that a bit of TMI, but it works for every slasher's SO that I know of! XD

[nekojita.livejournal.com]

Yep. Maybe one or two of them were considering taking their SO to the movie...