Here Come the Bromides Living in the Era of the Bromantic Comedy Bright Lights Film Journal

02.08.09

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Here Procure the Bromides

Living in the Era of the Bromantic Comedy

"Nothing is more exhilarating than philistine vulgarity." — Vladimir Nabokov

By Joseph Aisenberg

Now that "the Gay" have been deemed socially ordinary, the culture has begun to slip into a state of terminal confusion about what it means to be a man. Consciously convinced that perverted desire is as normal as mom and apple pie — despite existing in sacred red-white-and-blue’s middle, there is really nothing about gaydom to panic over — panic has set in nonetheless. For this reason the categories of "gay" and "straight" have been insidiously hardening from cultural stereotypes into Freud's biological fortune; the audience for mass culture's bright disposable artifacts now accepts as scientific fact a one-to-one relationship between men's deepest desires

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