The main idea in my paper about This is Life with Lisa Ling: Gay Rodeo is that gay cowboy and girls cannot classify as society’s image of the cowboy persona because of the difference in personality, speech, and style. In the article by the Albuquerque Journal, Lisa Ling does an interview in which she was surprised by the amount of fierce completion present at the Gay Rodeo. This piece of information contradicts one of my arguments in terms of a gay cowboy’s personality. In a book called The Humor of the American Cowboy by Stan Hoig, Hoig provides a collection tall tales, anecdotes, yarns, jokes, and humorous incidents of the Old West that not only entertain but also focus attention on the overlooked parts of cowboy’s life. Based on some of these stories, I believe society would not classify gay cowboys as the typical “cowboy” because he or she wouldn’t be able to portray the same amount of toughness, masculinity, or incapability to feel fear as a straight cowboy in the same situation. However, Ling contradicts this by saying that the atmosphere was very fierce and harsh even though the cowboys were gay. Thus opening the possibility that if put into the same situation as a straight cowboy, a gay cowboy could possibly embody the “cowboy” persona in society’s eyes.…show more content… Additionally, Ling mentions that this event is separate from a regular rodeo in only sexuality. She stated that the event was extremely important for the participants and they took it very seriously. This only adds to the fact that a gay cowboy could fit society’s depiction of a cowboy regardless of his or her
