Editor:

OK, we get it. Conservatives think Larry H. Miller made the right choice when he pulled “Brokeback Mountain,” liberals don’t.

I saw both “Hostel” and “Brokeback Mountain,” and people walked out of “Hostel,” not “Brokeback Mountain,” looking disgusted and sickened. The biggest question in my mind is how Miller justifies removing a film with fewer than five minutes of tastefully approached gay sex and not removing a movie with at least half an hour of GRAPHIC lesbian sex.

Trevor Burnett (“Miller made a personal decision-stop judging him,” April 17) seems confused about a few things. First, the objectification of women perpetuated by the porn industry represents a “safe” form of misogyny. I saw more pornography in “Hostel” than anything I have ever seen in a theater.

Why is it that society is perfectly fine with watching two women have sex, but the mere thought of a sexual relationship between two men sparks enough controversy to fuel six months’ worth of letters to the editor in a college newspaper?

Second, there were not “plenty of theaters” at which to see “Brokeback Mountain.” The reason this made national news is that Miller’s theater was the only stadium-seating theater in Utah that planned on showing the movie. Those of us who really wanted to see the movie found ourselves sardined into small, artsy theatres with inadequate seating.

Incidentally, the movie has been out of stock at my Blockbuster every time I’ve been there in the past month.

Personally, I don’t believe that Miller saw either movie. I like to think that if he had seen the piece of garbage he decided to show in lieu of a tragic love story, he might have thought twice. I also think that if he is going to cater to the upstanding, moral population he seems to favor, he would probably be wise to refrain from showing any R-rated movies.

Emily Ann Israelsen??Senior, English