Why Do You Have a Gun In Space: Men in Bay's Armageddon:
I've often wondered if straight cis men were real, and apparently I'm not alone in wondering this. No one would deny trans mens' experiences, and gay men certainly seems comfortable with themselves, but so many straight cis men seem obsessed with proving their masculinity to the point of desperation. All of them either being gay men or trans women in denial seems a tidy theory. Perhaps this is unreasonable, but if you look at the veritable cytokine storm of no homo that is Michael Bay's Armageddon you do have to wonder. I remember the film coming out in 1998 and ignoring it because of it looked awful and there was no escaping the sappy Aerosmith ballad that went along with it. I later read a description of the plot in Susan Napier's Anime book, where she contrasted it's conservative reinforcement and reassurance of the nuclear family triumphing with the "deassurance" of Akira, Ghost in the Shell, and Evangelion. However I was requested to watch it in ...