The American ideal of sexuality appears to be rooted in the American ideal of masculinity. This idea has created cowboys and Indians, good guys and bad guys, punks and studs, tough guys and softies, butch and faggot, black and white. It is an ideal so paralytically infantile that it is virtually forbidden -- as an unpatriotic act -- that the American boy evolve into the complexity of manhood.
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We couldn't all be cowboys, some of us are clowns and some of us are dancers in the midway...
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If lawyers are disbarred and clergymen defrocked, doesn't it follow that electricians can be delighted, musicians denoted, cowboys deranged, models deposed, tree surgeons debarked, and dry cleaners depressed.
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God please tell Mama that real cowboys don't take baths, they just dust off
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Mama don't let your babies grow up to be cowboys
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My heroes have always been cowboys
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Cowboys have always been my heroes
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