These boys are cast as heroes of American machodom, and machodom has a problem with gender. Perhaps because it is as ignorant as a post, machodom does not realize that armies and navies and sports teams from Achilles and Patroclus through Nelson's navy to the Gulf War have been built on homoeroticism.

You are putting too much English on the ball.

Leonato: I would faine know what you haue to ſay.

When you went / Ambassador to the Emperor, you made bold / To carry into Flanders the great seal.