tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-814549419838495324.post3113553827240649580..comments2023-09-25T10:15:41.979-04:00Comments on NYSocBoy's Beefcake and Bonding: Happy DaysNYSocBoyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06658785942817017972noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-814549419838495324.post-87986472627178587102021-03-17T09:14:28.914-04:002021-03-17T09:14:28.914-04:00Seems right, but there's still the odd age dif...Seems right, but there's still the odd age difference. Remember things like Michelle Remembers? Early 80s were a time of moral panic.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-814549419838495324.post-23097892752814862402021-03-16T17:02:04.041-04:002021-03-16T17:02:04.041-04:00Roh Howards movies are filled with macho jobs- fir...Roh Howards movies are filled with macho jobs- firemen, astronauts, race car drivers- not sure if there is any body bonding in any of them- I do know that he omitted a gay angle from "A Beautiful Mind" so maybe he is not comfortable with dealing on gays in filmjhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04042785568975031327noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-814549419838495324.post-61598271106917090632021-03-16T12:52:25.529-04:002021-03-16T12:52:25.529-04:00I get the impression that Ron Howard is homophobic...I get the impression that Ron Howard is homophobic. There's a hookup story about him on "Tales of West Hollywood," but I think the guy who told me was making it up. In an 2011 interview, Henry Winkler said that Fonzie would have been a gay ally.NYSocBoyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06658785942817017972noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-814549419838495324.post-80173863597131725642021-03-16T10:27:21.758-04:002021-03-16T10:27:21.758-04:00Yeah, you could definitely read them as a couple. ...Yeah, you could definitely read them as a couple. Not sure if Messrs Howard and Winkler would be so fond of that reading as we move into the 80s.<br /><br />TBH, Sexual Behavior in the Human Male had not only a lot of premarital sex but a lot of gay sex. The female volume was actually more scandalous (which is funny because all that het stuff implies women have sex as well), and many later generations (silents, boomers, and early xers) thought Kinsey cheated because things they did "shouldn't count". Meanwhile, the Mattachine Society started the 10% just-so story, when it was in fact 2% were a 6 and over half were at least a 1.<br /><br />A bit of a note on the state of gaiety in the 50s.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-814549419838495324.post-26243390382056586112021-03-16T09:44:31.450-04:002021-03-16T09:44:31.450-04:00"Happy Days' is nostalgic fantasy about t..."Happy Days' is nostalgic fantasy about the 1950s as seen in the movies not real life. I have no seen the show in years but you do make a good point about the Fonz-Richie bromance.JP Aragonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09664852451815214352noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-814549419838495324.post-6467617372872979552018-02-10T08:25:41.388-05:002018-02-10T08:25:41.388-05:00There was a lot of revisionism about the 50s, of c...There was a lot of revisionism about the 50s, of course.<br /><br />I see it as America trying to get over the Kennedy assassination, Vietnam, the other Kennedy assassination (and the 1968 Democratic convention), the King assassination, knowing just how bad this country was if you were black, acknowledging gay people exist, nearly everything about Nixon...America regressed to an earlier time.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com