Meyer introduces a tall forceful woman capable of physically dominating her male counter part, Robert Ebert explains, "Take away all the jokes, the elaborate camera angles, the violence, the action and the sex, and what remains is the quintessential Russ Meyer image: a towering woman with enormous breasts, who dominates all the men around her, demands sexual satisfaction and casts off men in the same way that, in mainstream sexual fantasies, men cast aside women." ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Gays", Lesbians", and Bisexuals" Roles of "Otherness" in Dominant Culture Despite no visible differences such as those of ethnicity and race, homosexuals and bisexuals are still commonly defined as "other" in our society. Based soley on their sexual orientation, gays, lesbians, and bisexuals ar...

• Word Count: 1153
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Homosexuality Good thing or bad thing? As he froze to death, tied to a fence away from the city in which he resided, Matthew Shepard's only crime, was to be a twenty one year old homosexual student in the state of Wyoming. As the killers of Matthew Shepard wanted to erase him from the face of th...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

By cloaking such concepts in witty jokes while still acknowledging them, Some Like it Hot evaded the censorship policy of the Production Code and managed to have a resolution that did not reinstate the norms of heterosexuality on the whole. ...

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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

This suggests that is homophobic behavior, such as making heterosexist jokes, is positively reinforced as a child, perhaps with laughter, that person is more likely to continue exhibiting similar behavior. ...

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He went on to cite this is part of the reason he elected to retire early, putting a stop to his double life, as well as the shame he was feeling at the hands of teammates who made incessant gay jokes in his presence. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate