they're PATHETIC

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and sheep were nervous.

This was in the 1950's on the Mississippi coast. Jimmie Rodgers was from Meridian, Mississippi, I think. Rodgers was my dad's music teacher's cousin and the teacher got Jimmie to come to the music class and teach them a lesson on the guitar. My dad says he was a very nice man, although he seemed like he wasn't in good health. I don't know if Rodgers came down to visit family or if he was playing at one of the nightclubs in Biloxi. Anyway, I thought it was a cool memory to have about a legend.

White, heterosexual, cisgendered promoters of patriarchy vs. everyone else.

I don’t need no stinking government or society... just leave me to my own devices and don’t fence me in. It’s a romantic image. Most of them would last about two seconds without the infrastructure the system they rail so hard against created, but they love the myth.

They love the image, not the reality.

I like how that ended.

Gak

My reaction exactly!

A New York city slicker putting on a cowboy hat. And his base eats that shit up. Looks like he's going back to his family's roots in the pimping business.

... lived in a world of little moral ambiguity (e.g. good guys with guns were ALWAYS good guys). But this is the cowboy of the western GENRE of books and movies (especially classic, "old west" story-telling), not necessarily actual, historical cowboys.

So, the macho, rugged, go-it-alone, hero archetype is appealing to a lot of people, and I would guess conservatives have a greater affinity for that mythic combination of qualities, especially the "rugged individual" aspect (read: we don't need government!) and the "good guy with gun" aspect (for obvious reasons).

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is locked up by another bad guy, Gene Hackman, while two other bad guys, Eastwood and Freeman try to avenge a prostitute for money.

At the same time there’s the dime novel guy trying to benefit from it all.

There are many novels and movies. But I think until the Italian dramas was the cowboy was the good one, or at least there was one hero.

He said real cowboys are DEMOCRATS. RANCH OWNERS are Republicans.

And they ***GASP*** read a lot of books and are Democrats.

One at a time of course
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The old western movies - White men on the frontier, the tip of the spear for manifest destiny itself, who carried a gun with them at all times and were supposed to be some lawman/vigilante hybrid who kept law and order in the frontier

Reality - Cowboys came in all colors, checked their guns when they went into town, and were laborers who drove cattle

Beautiful movie. And Jake Gyllenhaal and Heath Ledger were the most awesome cowboys I've ever seen.

A despised criminal if he shot a man in the back. It was a strict code.

Today police shoot unarmed people in the back and get paid vacations for it.

is simple. break it, you end up on boot hill.

one version, as told to young ron howard by john wayne …………...

"I won't be wronged. I won't be insulted. I won't be laid a-hand on. I don't do these things to other people, and I require the same from them."

the code in any form is simple. here is eastwood enlightening eli Wallach ….……

"there are 2 kinds of people in the world, tuco, those who have loaded revolvers, and those who dig. you dig."

Cowboy gear was common, Hank Williams, even Winchester Patsy Cline, et al. 'cons often like the '50's.

Cowboys are not and never were not gunslingers or individualists. They had to work together as a team to manage the herd. You get a sort of sense of reality in the old TV series "Raw Hide." For the most part there is a lot of gun play portrayed. Many of the towns in the west had gun check laws.

There were a few "rugged individualists" mountain men and trappers, but those guys didn't build this country. It was built by people coming together to get things done, from raising a barn to butchering a hog.

have you ever tried to get a horse down your moms' basement stairs?

... guns, guns, guns... women were pretty maids to be had, or sexy saloon hostesses to have you. White ruled. Gays were invisible. No social security programs. And, more guns!

and John Wayne as this larger than live hero explain a lot of it