Gay cowboy or philosopher (or both)?

Another item that may have played a role in the bimodal response (i.e., love us or fear us) we elicited: One of this year's additions to our big board of famous people who have studied philosophy: Jake Gyllenhaal, pictured in a still from Brokeback Mountain. Since, as an administrator pointed out as we were setting up, many parents would feel a little bit better about their kids becoming gay cowboys than philosophers.