Ironically the movies that were critiqued fall under the horror‚ action‚ and fantasy genres however‚ the resulting criticism opposes their purpose in which they fall respectively under feminist‚ queer‚ and Marxist criticism. Halloween being nationally recognized as a spooky day was the perfect setting for a woman to establish her equality. Likewise‚ an action film was critiqued as being the perfect setting to establish an LGBT presence as opposed to the drama stereotype and fantasy was viewed to
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Griner and Gloria Johnson did not make the news like Ray Rice. Only because the LGBT community is envisioned as a disgrace to the mankind. But who made that Rule? During this semester I began investigating gay‚ lesbian‚ bisexual‚ transgender‚ and queer representations of the sacred during my late adolescence‚ to open my beliefs towards the LGBT community. In college‚ my knowledge of same-sex desiring and gender-variant deities evolved into a study of the spiritual roles and legacies of LGBT
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Women in Halloween and Frozen are seen as strong individuals in times when they are expected to be weak. Let’s start with the movie 300‚ the best fit for this is a criticism of queer theory. When it comes to queer theory Kelly Mays “likes to discover resistance to heterosexuality in unexpected places” (2349). This is more queer theory in reason being that even on the battlefield when one of the man was dying his comrade held his hand to comfort him‚ but the narrator of screen junkies expressed it was
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to work simultaneously on all. Despite being extremely confusing for those who are not pre-exposed to the various terms and concepts‚ Eli Clare’s ‘Exile and Pride’ is an appropriate addition to queer literature. The purpose of this book however is up for debate. As it currently stands as an addition to queer literature it serves its purpose well. If the book was intended to educate readers on disability politics then it also serves its purpose but is hindered by its medium and the language utilized
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and contribute to it’s toll on the reader "morbid"‚ "depressed" ‚ " ghastly". . There’s off rhyme between "lamps" and "glanced" in the second stanza. There’s a simile (comparison using like or as) where Owen says the girls touch him like some queer disease. It’s ironic (another poetic device) that nonhuman things (sleep) take on human attributes (the personification of sleep mothering) while the human (the subject himself) becomes inhuman‚ turns into a disease. Meter: generally iambic pentameter
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Leaves the authors‚ Martin Espada and Sandra Beasley‚ write about the power that poetry ultimately has. Although poetry is beneficial to readers‚ it’s also valuable to writers. The power gives to a writer can be simply illustrated by the poem Severely Queer by Lucas Mathieu D. Poetry matters because it can both allow readers to find comfort in difficult situations‚ and allow writers to express
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the idea that sex and gender are synonymous‚ while the scene makes light of the efforts by many trans-women to “prove their womanhood‚” (Koyama). Cathy is already inherently disadvantaged as a person whose body is read as female‚ but that intersects queer-discrimination‚ when her sex at birth is discovered. Her queerness horrifies Ted because it means that he— a cishetero man— has been attracted to and “tricked” by a person who he now perceives as male‚ despite her own assertion of gender. This is exemplified
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will become confused. Students are afraid and confused of things that are unfamiliar to them. Since most student are sexually illiterate when it comes to queer studies‚ we can only imagine that most are afraid of queers. This easily explains the bullying of queer students in highschool. Alexander sugests that if there is an increase of queer studies students will become more comfortable. This does two things‚ makes homosexual students comfortable with themselves‚ as well as create a more relaxed
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It may seem counterintuitive to queer Hoccleve’s highly normative and religiously orthodox Addresse to Sir John Oldcastle. The Addresse is a 450 line poem in which Hoccleve remonstrates the knight Sir John Oldcastle into leaving his heretical‚ Lollard beliefs and potential rebellion against King Henry V. He encourages the wayward soldier to return to religious orthodoxy and loyalty to the king. Like traditional medieval gender expectations‚ the poem itself falls neatly into two parts. In the Address
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Many viewers with traditional Christian values could not look past the homosexual intimacy portrayed in Brokeback Mountain. Movie manager of Lone Star 4 refused to screen the film reiterating the idea that‚ “small towns do not have queers (let alone people interested in queer cowboys)‚ and that being Christian invariably means being hostile to homosexuality” (4). Benshoff uses this example of a small town movie theater to prove his point that in a community made up of a majority of Christians no one
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