One of yesterday's headlines asked Slate readers, "If You Like 300, Are You Gay?" Judging from the first page of Matt Feeney's article, one could fairly wonder why 300 was used to spotlight a piece focused on surf movies. But, the "meat" of the argument—as it were—is indeed dangling on the final page: "Shouldn't [straight men] be able to [project onto [heroic figures they themselves would like to be]] not just excellence but physical beauty] without being called gay?" According to Feeney, envy of heroic narcissism—the admiring of one's own reflection in another's excellence—is unfairly characterized as "homoeroticism." Judging from responses in the Fray, this assertion is more provocative than it is persuasive.
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