"squeal like a girl" (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Mullins, Bill AMRDEC]

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> It is important to divorce one's own view of forced male-to-male anal
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> intercourse as merely "predator-victim" apart from any gender =
> considerations. Personally, I totally agree.
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> However, that enlightened view is not the one that, arguably, still =
> predominates in modern culture, and certainly is not what one would =
> expect that a real-life character with the prejudices that one would =
> ascribe to the rapist in the novel DELIVERANCE would have had. Indeed,
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> "use him like a woman" is a common euphemism for male-on-male sexual =
> intercourse, whether forced or not. The old cliche that men who prefer
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> to be the recipient in anal intercourse are "women trapped in men's =
> bodies" further illustrates this point.=20
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> The behavior of men in prison further underscores the prevalence of
the =
> common view of sexual intercourse between men as the "unnatural" use
of =
> men as women. Passive partners are frequently referred to as "prison =
> wives" and "bitches"; the anus is referred to as the "faggot cunt"; =
> "wives" refer to themselves as "girls."
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> So, the category of assaults that are "predator-victim" embraces both
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> male-on-male and male-on-female.

No doubt.  This one is male-on-male.  There is no reason to ascribe
woman-ness to Bobby during the scene; and the book doesn't do so (it's
been so long since I've seen the movie that I can't say whether or not
it does).


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> On Nov 21, 2011, at 1:02 PM, Mullins, Bill AMRDEC wrote:
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> > "Panties" appears in the book; "squeal like a pig" does not.
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> > I don't perceive the scene as "using his victim like a woman".
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> is
> > nothing male-female in the assault; it is predator-victim.
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