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<blockquote data-quote="Willie the Duck" data-source="post: 9536616" data-attributes="member: 6799660">And has made statements in support of GLBT rights. And is a Swifty. And a rudimentary functional adult*. My point wasn't all the ways it doesn't makes sense, just how limited it is that it would make sense. Mostly it seems that he is what they want to be -- as conventionally attractive as** DiCaprio, Cruise or Pitt but also as buff as Schwarzenegger or Cena, and then also a gamer nerd and so somehow still them -- and then a heterosexual white male who gets to be the leading man. That's it, as far as I can tell. He hasn't done anything that would make them think he's one of them (and plenty to suggest otherwise). They've just latched onto him based on some notion of what he represents.*I do not know enough about the dating-young proclivities issue to comment on it.**using iconic U.S. celebrities. To my knowledge, being fans of none of these say anything in a culture-war sense.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Willie the Duck, post: 9536616, member: 6799660"] And has made statements in support of GLBT rights. And is a Swifty. And a rudimentary functional adult*. My point wasn't all the ways it doesn't makes sense, just how limited it is that it would make sense. Mostly it seems that he is what they want to be -- as conventionally attractive as** DiCaprio, Cruise or Pitt but also as buff as Schwarzenegger or Cena, and then also a gamer nerd and so somehow still them -- and then a heterosexual white male who gets to be the leading man. That's it, as far as I can tell. He hasn't done anything that would make them think he's one of them (and plenty to suggest otherwise). They've just latched onto him based on some notion of what he represents. [I][SIZE=2]*I do not know enough about the dating-young proclivities issue to comment on it. **using iconic U.S. celebrities. To my knowledge, being fans of none of these say anything in a culture-war sense.[/SIZE][/I] [/QUOTE]

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