a stereotypical heaving barbarian of massive proportions.... excuse me, I need a little lie-down for a moment. Ah, much better. =) Well, again, it's just the way our society works. We tend to look down on people who really work for a living, like construction workers and manual laborers. We guys will spend hours in the gym to build muscles we'll never really use, and I can tell you that even straight guys are intimidated by a 6-4 tower of muscle, even if he is gay. (No, not me, but my gym buddy is, and it's hysterical to see how he parts the waters when he moves across that gym floor.) It's the weirdest thing, these days: these guys will look at someone like Cory and smirk that "with a body like that, dude's gotta be gay" -- and yet you know that (1) they're envious as hell and (2) they're scared to death. No surprise, then, that we should see it carry over to a place like this.