Breaking Gender Stereotypes

The idea behind the film Brokeback Mountain drew a different type of audience into theaters. White most films released during this time drew largely heterosexual men into the theaters, this particular film did not. The heterosexual men that were interviewed by Benshoff explained that they would not attend in fear that they “might be stimulated by the gay sex scenes” making them uncertain about their sexual preferences as heterosexual

Shocking from a kid like Will because he is a straight as a nail type of guy, loves being around people that bring positive energy and living life

By showing that he is gay, but it’s not all that he is, and that he has endured struggles, but he’s overcome them, he creates a connection with other homosexuals.

Overall, Will has had a troubling life, never feeling like he actually belonged. He was afraid to be smart and at the same time afraid to not be. The physical and mental abuse he suffered at the hands of those who are supposed to protect him, definitely scared him

Will uses anger, denial, and sarcasm as defense mechanisms to push people away from him. He told people that he did not have a problem and that they were the ones with the problem. He used

The male characters are shown as strong and assertive. Jeff, representing an average male, takes charge of his girlfriend on multiple accounts. Like most males, he does not seem to differ from the traditional role of acting dominant in the presence of the opposite sex. As seen, when he commands the attention and care of his nurse as soon as she walks through the door; or how he easily controls his girlfriend’s emotions during dinner. Each time causing his masculinity to be known.

hedonistic urges. Later on Dixon points out “We are facing the loss of our generation…gay men lost to AIDS. What kind of witness will you bear? What truth telling are you brave enough to utter and endure the consequences of your unpopular message?” (Dixon 73-74).

Will and Grace may also have a negative effect on viewers because, although it challenges the cultural belief that gays are not accepted by most in society, it still weakens

The first world war saw a lot of refusal towards the war effort by men which made the government afraid due to the futile and indiscriminate slaughter of the British army at the battle of the Somme in 1916 where General Haig's tactics failed to show success which resulted in Britain losing a vast majority of soldiers by 1916. Therefore the government feared that they might lose World War one as well because there a lot of casualties which needed to be replaced and many men were becoming antisocial and refused to join the war, these people were known as conscientious objector or short for C.Os. Some C.Os did not want to fight in the war but were keen to do there bit in the war, so they were willing to help out in weapon factories and go to

Will's ability to push all his therapists and his girlfriend away shows his defensiveness. He keeps this tough boy attitude to make others not want to care about him because no one ever has. Rogers' pathology includes defensive maintenance of self (Pervin et al., 2005).

He argues that psychologists as early as Freud have determined the importance of a person’s sexual identity in defining a person’s psychological make-up and then points out that it is impossible for a reader to divorce their sexuality from a reading of any text, that a reader brings to a text the entirety of his experiences and identity and therefore, he brings his sexual identity to the reading of a text also. I use the male pronoun at this point in this paper because the author of the article examined the homosexual male reader, which is separate from either the heterosexual identity and also separate from a lesbian identity because "the homosexual male, in spite of his ‘difference’ is still a biological man, and very importantly, he is a socially constructed man, with all that this implies for phallocentrism and patriarchy" (73). Therefore, it can be seen, a reader can neither divorce their sexual identity nor their gender identity from a reading of a text; in fact, because these factors play a major role in a reader’s psychological make-up, they also play a major role in a

An increase in the production of domestic magazines, primarily aimed at women, coincided with the stricter expectations of female behaviour. The Lady’s Magazine, in which the exposé of Thornton appeared, was the first to survive any length of time. It was issued monthly and contained news but largely consisted of poetry, sheet music and stories. Its cost made it largely an upper class magazine, as it was the equivalent of a full day’s pay of a skilled artisan. Lower class literature too experienced a large growth in production. Street literature, including broadsides and ballads, had long been popular since the sixteenth century and by the early nineteenth were sold in the thousands on every city street corner. Both had firm backgrounds

He appears to be of the following attitude: “The visibility of straight-acting gay men, or men who cannot be read as gay, may challenge the notion of a hegemonic and monolithic gay identity, but they reflect the historic need for the marginalized to remain obedient, silent, and invisible in order to be recuperated into dominant ideologies… In their calls for inclusion, these men focus on inclusion for those men who adhere to traditional and perhaps conventional expectations of male behavior” (Clarkson, 2011). Wayne Goss, though a significant figure in the normalization of men’s interest in beauty, conforms to many of the traditional norms regarding masculinity and sexuality. He recognizes the need to challenge these norms, but does not see the need to do so in an assuming

Will 's group of friends seem to pick on him and judge him, which questions if they are truly his friends or not and if he truly fits in with him.

about it. In the film, Will feels helpless, so he pushes his emotions aside for others to deal with.