Flatmates: Straight Lads Turn Gay

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At the start of the video, the men kiss briefly and instinctively, as if they’ve done it before so many times. It’s a strong and surprising hook. Hard Lads’ ending sequence tries to embody this sentimental campy love. After the main lad collapses for the 7th time, he gets buried in 69 chairs, and lays there on the ground, longer than usual. The rain of chairs is also a succinct way to show some sympathy, because when one lad gets hit by a chair, we all get buried in chairs. It’s about solidarity. But with who? If you actually read the study ( I kiss them because I love them: The emergence of heterosexual men kissing in British institutes of education) it never claims kissing is just a simple lad greeting, and in fact the word “greet / greeting” appears only once in the paper. (pg. 422: “Thus, a kiss on the lips has not been part of the historical repertoire of greetings or demonstrations of affection among men for centuries in Britain”)

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NOTE: Update, July 16, 2020. Michael Thomsen’s lovely review for Art in America argued a 2010 study found 9 of 10 UK university men kissed as a greeting. I think this is a bit misleading:

It was the tragic suicide of his dad’s friend, who he regularly played football with, which first prompted him to explore the damaging effects of hyper-masculinity through his art. Bold lettering is stitched on top of St. George’s flags, featuring slogans such as ​ “soften up hard lad” and ​ “save our bastard sons”. When finished, they form awitty take on the ever-recognisable pitch, pub and PE banter. men who have sex with men (MSM) define sex by social context rather than the sexual activity involved. One of the lads in California is from Uttoxoter in Staffs and he has loads of mates still from midlands from them days.

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At ECW Hardcore Heaven 1994, a pro wrestler asked for a chair to smash on a fellow performer. Fans proceeded to give him many chairs, literally hundreds thrown onto the stage. This avalanche derailed the entire match. The staff begged the audience to stop, but the chairs just kept flying. It was a massive surreal breakdown in the laws of pro wrestling events. Among many queer moments in pro wrestling, this ranks among the queerest. Like many young men, McLeod felt the pressure of having to fit into aladdy mould he didn’t see himself fitting into, being queer and in astraight male-dominated school. His more recent work, like ashort film titled Understanding: Masculinity, features clips from apub with adeep-voiced narration playing over the top. Its contents are critical of the ​ “boys don’t cry” rhetoric which tend to plague school corridors and changing rooms. The Three Legs to my memory always had an offical branch & eventually evolved into what's now become the Vine Branch[/quote] Conceptually, the allusion to pro wrestling culture is exactly what these lads are trying to perform. This connection to wrestling is also why I swapped out the video’s weird patio chair for a proper metal folding chair. In terms of formal game design, the chair rain offers a useful ramp for wordlessly conveying game progression. Hopefully players get the sense that something is escalating out of their control. I never explain how this chair rain happens, it just suddenly comes out of nowhere, a bit like the surreal rain at the end of the film Magnolia (spoiler). You could easily interpret these chairs as societal pressure from an unseen audience, or as a divine desire to hit you when you’re down. It echoes the cosmic irony of the gods thwarting every second of the lad’s life. Landscape with the Fall of Icarus” by Dutch renaissance painter Bruegel (or some other painter, who cares) emphasizes the humiliation of Icarus’ failed ambition. Viewers familiar with the myth will first look for Icarus in the sky — only to eventually locate Icarus awkwardly drowning in the ocean near the bottom-right corner. No one in the painting gives a shit about Icarus. Not only was Icarus foolish, but no one was even recording him on video! Gay poet W. H. Auden famously saw this painting in a museum and felt moved to drag / lament Icarus:Growing up in those heteronormative environments, Ihave always felt this pressure from the hyper-masculine men around me to conform to the same unachievable, outdated standards of what they think aman should be,” says Shaw, whose other work includes aCarling advertisement with the recognisable logo removed in favour of ​ “Crying” and the tagline swapped for: ​ “Probably the best way to get things off your chest”.