Dudely

Long before the slinky Miss Shields was a twinkle in her mama’s eye, nothing came between erstwhile Southern belle Elsa Jane Guerin and her dudely duds.

2001, Stephen Beachy, Distortion http://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN1560239980&id=U1N20gh2p-MC&pg=PA268&lpg=PA268&dq=dudely&sig=zXwiJUJHq_brxfa-MBKQt4aev-o I love bad whiteboys, the really skanky sort of white-trash ones, you know, the ones that surf or live in the woods or just got out of prison, the dudely ones who’re sort of closeted but really straight-acting, those are the ones I always fall for.

Not many dames line up at the bar on this side, as it seems to be a dudely kind of place, what with a TV perched above the liquor-bottle wallpaper blaring out some sports contest, but one lady does attract my notice.

The films make explicit that not-gay homosexual sex is constituted by a set of dudely and homophobic gestures, the staging of a heteronormative scene bound by hetero-masculine logics, and an emotional landscape marked by repulsion and resilience.