Word: humority
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...sitting around me decided that the shouting was more than they could handle, a group of us got up to leave. As I left the theater, a friend of mine stopped me. He looked me straight in the face and said, "You should have known there would be homophobic humor, and you shouldn't have come." I simply turned to him and said "I didn't know, but since you did, then it is you who should not have come...
...like. Schlesinger appears more comfortable towards the end of the film, when the movie makes an irreversible turn from comedy to drama. This dramatic shift of tone in the last third of the film follows the arrival of Ben Cooper and the complications his romance with Abbie brings. The humor that pervaded the first half of the film is conspicuously absent towards the poignant...
...recovering dignity or power. However, some artists seem unable to transcend the clichs, and their work is just as obvious as the stereotype. Many artists reiterate the woman equals doll equation without Leviten's adroitness. But Joe Fekieta, Bloody Chiclitz and Dale Kaplan use sharper instruments: humor, enigma, insight. Fekieta's grotesque pen-and-inks, each accompanied by a six-line poem, lampoon sex and relationships as often tangled and ridiculous-think lots of vines and anthropomorphic gourds. Overall, "Sex, Sexism, and Society" puts up a good fight, whether hitting you over the head or searing you with images...
Many artists address gender relations. Riva Leviten's arrangement of simple coloring-book cut-outs with scribbles on white, "Carrying on in the Great Tradition = Men are Men and Women are Dolls or Madonnas," critiques with simplicity, detachment and humor. Another recurring subject is the body. Roblee Hoffman's "Virtual Group" suggests the capacity of technology to transform but not erase the material body and biological identity. Tom Hauck, in "Sacred and Profane Love," targets conflicting images of sexuality as represented by mainstream society, moral codes and our impulsive biology. The struggle is phrased as the question of whether...
Many artists address gender relations. Riva Leviten's arrangement of simple coloring-book cut-outs with scribbles on white, "Carrying on in the Great Tradition = Men are Men and Women are Dolls or Madonnas," critiques with simplicity, detachment and humor. Another recurring subject is the body. Roblee Hoffman's "Virtual Group" suggests the capacity of technology to transform but not erase the material body and biological identity. Tom Hauck, in "Sacred and Profane Love," targets conflicting images of sexuality as represented by mainstream society, moral codes and our impulsive biology. The struggle is phrased as the question of whether...