tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3348523519788188753.post869342098086281834..comments2024-03-12T04:14:16.271-05:00Comments on The Rad Trad: Romantic FriendshipsThe Rad Tradhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00899289024837953345noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3348523519788188753.post-42989234602528470112014-09-18T11:09:00.314-05:002014-09-18T11:09:00.314-05:00The "Brideshead Revisited" television mi...The "Brideshead Revisited" television miniseries did much to push the homosexualized interpretation of the Charles-Sebastian friendship, and to ratchet up the sexualizing of the story in general. It's still a good production, but its biases are clear.<br /><br />Hearty friendships are unfortunately uncommon. I have experienced a few myself, and the sad thing is how briefly they seem to last, even if they do survive in memory. I hesitate to use the word "romantic" to describe them, unless by that we intend the older meaning of "adventurous." Any close friendship will have an element of adventure within it.J.https://www.blogger.com/profile/02124903563459448051noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3348523519788188753.post-46012615287205066822014-09-18T06:30:42.980-05:002014-09-18T06:30:42.980-05:00I had taken a keen interest in this very topic and...I had taken a keen interest in this very topic and glad to see you and Frs. C & H take it up. In my opinion, real friendship is nearly dead today, especially among men. The one friend that came closest to this kind of bond, nurtured in a formative educational years and setting, is now a priest in the SSPX, which puts us in different stations of life making it more difficult, besides the distance too, to reestablish what was before.<br /><br />One thing that should be mentioned is that the husband-wife bond (or today, any sexual coupling) has become the only "real" friendship worth having to the denigration of non-sexual intimate relationships. In my mind, the same neo-Puritanical haters of the body, also trump marriage (i.e. male-female sexual union) beyond its already esteemed sacramental value to the point of hyper-exclusivity of all other human relationships as if true friendships outside of the marriage would diminish the marriage. Think of the phrase "my wife/husband is my best friend" - I have a problem with that because I think of friendship as something distinct from, by not unrelated to, marriage. <br /><br />I guess the burning question now is - is it even possible to nurture a traditional romantic friendship among men after the formative years have passed? Or is high school or college the one and only chance in life to establish such bonds? Joanneshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00496552906164909711noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3348523519788188753.post-41029576431574282372014-09-18T05:10:31.360-05:002014-09-18T05:10:31.360-05:00I remember that way back when I read LotR, I was &...I remember that way back when I read LotR, I was "convinced" that Sam and Frodo were "homossexuals", and their friendship bothered me quite a bit. Took a couple of years to figure out how wrong I was. <br />I do think, however, that nowadays, given the poloraization between hetero and homo, certain physical experessions of friendship are no longer viewed as "normal" and are construed as a tell-tale sign of homossexual tendencies. This polorization leads also,I think, to hetero men indulging in moer promiscuous activity to prove their "hetero-ness".Marco da Vinhahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06092410765851812842noreply@blogger.com