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Brokeback Mountain Fantasies? nt Xipe Totec Nov 2017 #1
Lawlessness, "rugged individualism," stealing then cloaking with respectability... UTUSN Nov 2017 #2
Reality Check: the life of a real Latter Day Cowboy Achilleaze Nov 2017 #48
Those poor animals. How inhumane. CrispyQ Nov 2017 #64
Hurts even to think about it. calimary Nov 2017 #78
A good reason to only eat grass fed beef womanofthehills Nov 2017 #90
This. CrispyQ Nov 2017 #65
+1! Corvo Bianco Nov 2017 #77
Actually, they were only about 50% white Nac Mac Feegle Nov 2017 #94
Gives them the mental allusion of toughness. Blue_true Nov 2017 #3
And how cruel and criminal many were. nt Ilsa Nov 2017 #7
That too. nt Blue_true Nov 2017 #9
Yes, they need an identity. They need to have an image, a model. Shame that being themselves The Wielding Truth Nov 2017 #33
They also have no idea that the largest percentage of cowboys were Mexican. Jim Beard Nov 2017 #35
Pretty much Dem2 Nov 2017 #92
Same romantic fetish as with the ancient Greeks Coventina Nov 2017 #4
When men were men and women were women. LakeArenal Nov 2017 #5
Or, in parts of the West, "when men were men and the sheep were nervous". Ken Burch Nov 2017 #20
Most real cowboys were African Americans and Mexicans. TexasProgresive Nov 2017 #6
African Americans, Mexicans and Native Americans. Ken Burch Nov 2017 #29
And gay cagefreesoylentgreen Nov 2017 #63
In other words, BLAZING SADDLES was much more historically accurate than anyone realized. Ken Burch Nov 2017 #71
Guns. Pure and simple JDC Nov 2017 #8
It's the guns and the illusion of toughness and rugged individualism. Aristus Nov 2017 #10
No Real Regulation On Anything... Grassy Knoll Nov 2017 #11
Here it is... yuiyoshida Nov 2017 #50
Because schools teach about cowboys/pioneers NCDem777 Nov 2017 #12
Appropriate observation given that Thanksgiving is upon us. Blue_true Nov 2017 #38
I think it's the crotchless chaps maxrandb Nov 2017 #13
LOL! You win! fleur-de-lisa Nov 2017 #84
Because they like familiar imagery over reality, and "familiar imagery" amounts to... JHB Nov 2017 #14
And here is the reality: Hassin Bin Sober Nov 2017 #17
My Eyes... Camel Wayne!!!! Grassy Knoll Nov 2017 #25
... Skittles Nov 2017 #31
Killing me. Lol. Hassin Bin Sober Nov 2017 #32
I stole it from another DUer Skittles Nov 2017 #79
AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!! AAAAAAHHH!!! AAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!! hatrack Nov 2017 #26
that is some major moose knuckle right there Skittles Nov 2017 #28
roflamao! yuiyoshida Nov 2017 #51
Miss Wayne cagefreesoylentgreen Nov 2017 #62
Zinke likey to ridey horsey. Sneederbunk Nov 2017 #15
Simple: alludes to the suppression of Native Americans. InAbLuEsTaTe Nov 2017 #16
Romance novel historical revisionism bullshit angrychair Nov 2017 #18
Cowboys Are Losing 29 to 9 Against The Eagles Grassy Knoll Nov 2017 #19
Ha! Love it!! Initech Nov 2017 #21
They don't. blogslut Nov 2017 #22
there is at least one thing... quickesst Nov 2017 #23
The exception that proves the rule . . . hatrack Nov 2017 #27
Sure... quickesst Nov 2017 #34
Unfortunately Snackshack Nov 2017 #24
Do they even know what cowboys did (do) for work? ProudLib72 Nov 2017 #30
It's all about the guns RainCaster Nov 2017 #36
The reality wouldn't please them at all... Buns_of_Fire Nov 2017 #40
Yep...Gunzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz hexola Nov 2017 #44
Yeah.... quickesst Nov 2017 #37
Where would DU be without posts stereotyping people? mahatmakanejeeves Nov 2017 #72
Easy subject to stereotype .... quickesst Nov 2017 #82
I'm lucky they can't see the Nocona boots I'm wearing. Then I would be in trouble. mahatmakanejeeves Nov 2017 #83
Nocona quickesst Nov 2017 #85
These are Nocona Noconas, too, as in "made in Nocona." mahatmakanejeeves Nov 2017 #86
More like.... quickesst Nov 2017 #87
Cowboy, you better change your ways.... safeinOhio Nov 2017 #39
This message was self-deleted by its author Freelancer Nov 2017 #41
Agree MiltonBrown Nov 2017 #61
Kind of funny get the red out Nov 2017 #42
all those bootstraps. pansypoo53219 Nov 2017 #43
Cowboy hats are like hemorroids. goldwax317 Nov 2017 #45
I wore a cowboy hat to work this morning. I'm going to wear it home tonight. mahatmakanejeeves Nov 2017 #75
Love it. B2G Nov 2017 #95
The richest guy Soxfan58 Nov 2017 #46
Excepten the Cartwrites there were three squeaky clean, honorable doc03 Nov 2017 #52
Ah, sounds like now! Initech Nov 2017 #58
No Bill of Rights to get in the way of "justice". no_hypocrisy Nov 2017 #47
gunz. KG Nov 2017 #49
Have you ever flown across the US and seen how much rural land there is? vlyons Nov 2017 #53
Simplemindedness HAB911 Nov 2017 #54
they like them big ol pick up trucks.. samnsara Nov 2017 #55
Slapping leather... Kleveland Nov 2017 #56
Village People had a cowboy and a Native American n/t TexasBushwhacker Nov 2017 #68
feeds on their false narrative of american history and when people "knew their place" beachbum bob Nov 2017 #57
All hat, no cattle JCMach1 Nov 2017 #59
Cowboy stuff is cool. MiltonBrown Nov 2017 #60
to paraphrase a greta Texan, Molly Ivins DonCoquixote Nov 2017 #66
I met a real cowboy Dirty Socialist Nov 2017 #67
My family is Wild West and matriarchal. hunter Nov 2017 #69
Thanks for the post. mahatmakanejeeves Nov 2017 #81
Bingo! GulfCoast66 Nov 2017 #93
My republican relatives listen to country music and they are so not "country" type people. smirkymonkey Nov 2017 #70
It's the epitome of complete individual freedom... brooklynite Nov 2017 #73
Also, outlaws like Jesse James were ex-confederate soldiers. That is DEFINITELY part of what they anneboleyn Nov 2017 #74
In the case of my pa, his pa was an asshole cowboy. The only person in a household of 8 who got Corvo Bianco Nov 2017 #76
I grew up ranching Drahthaardogs Nov 2017 #80
Cowboys do it better. miyazaki Nov 2017 #88
Well god dammit. So to be a proper liberal now... GulfCoast66 Nov 2017 #89
I live in rural NM ranching country and all the retirees womanofthehills Nov 2017 #91
Can rodeo be safer and still be rodeo? mahatmakanejeeves Nov 2017 #96
Dorothy Dandridge performs Cow-Cow Boogie mahatmakanejeeves Nov 2017 #97
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