"Arguments between men indicate that they are really attracted to one another and therefore gay and therefore should be teased for it!"
I'm genuinely sorry if this is how my post reads.
My post was intended as a random whimsy based on the following:
Haus and Reid has been arguing for quite a while, and it seemed that they were essentially arguing for the sake of arguing.
The sentence "They had pretended it was over a salmon, but it has long since floated away downstream." was inteded to convey this opinion; that they were (seemingly) pretending to fight about X, when in fact they were just in it for the fight.
I realise in retrospect that it could read as 'they had pretended to start their fight over a salmon, but it was a simple guise to hide their sexual feelings for one-another'. Sorry, I should have worded it clearer.
To my mind, the desire in anger and the desire in sexual arousal are very closely linked. I don't see this as a matter of repressed homosexuality, or repressed feelings of desire for the other person (though I assume these factors could come into play); I just see the outlet made through fighting/argument as similar to the outlet found in, say, masturbation.
Many people get erections when excited or filled with desire. Men are often stereotypically depicted as somewhat repressed in their desires, and as lacking in ways to express this desire other than fucking and fighting. I find this to be a little amusing (and I realise that this is somewhat childish). This is what I was refering to.
So the lust I was refering to was meant as a general, non-specific lust - pure libido, unaimed, rather than specific lust for one-another. Again, I realise that this probably doesn't come across in a more objective reading. I'm sorry.
I suppose, though it's not relevant in this case and nobody is offended, talking about m-i contributors' supposed erections could be objectionable to those contributors.
Point taken, though I must point out that the erections in question belonged to imaginary bears, and not the posters.
I can see that the closing comment of But really guys. Calm down. Have a kiss or a feel, or just put your cocks away and walk off. definitely has more overt homo connotations, but I meant this as more homoerotic, rather than homophobic.
The 'kiss' was meant as a 'kiss and make up'. The 'feel' was there in case they realised that the desire they had accumulated could actually be expressed a little better with some loving. The 'walk off' was if they 'woke up' from their trance, realised what was going on and that they didn't fancy turning their desire into a little fun.
Again; Ambiguous. Again; sorry.
Essentially, instead of ...it rest[ing] on the image of the stereotypical closeted homosexual whose sexual tensions emerge in anger, who is a laughable figure., I was basing my humour on the stereotypical male with repressed desires, which emerge in anger, who is a laughable figure.
I know, it's still rather base. I just got carried away and like writing about bears with erections.
Again, I apologise for any offense caused by what could easily be read as a homophobic post.
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