Word: phallic
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...like your music swelling, your symbols phallic, and your women ignorant, then “Princess Ida” is the show...
...weapons born by each sex also carried significance in the play’s commentary on the definition of gender. The male soldiers used lances, whose phallic significance was emphasized by constant thrusting at the women, and the women carried axes, hinting at castration and emasculation. Ida’s university, Castle Adamant, itself seemed to serve as a symbol for the female genitalia, since the Prince and his courtiers had to “penetrate” it in order to win over the Princess and the students...
...when we all must evaluate why we go to the movies. And I don’t mean that in the theoretical sense—as in “why am I grafting myself onto the gaze of the male protagonist, thus feeling the power of his phallic signification?”—but rather in the day-to-day philosophical sense. Why are we still going? Most movies suck, and aren’t worth an inkling of your time, but somehow you’ll still probably see The Ring...
...Helene Cixous essay: In the ticking “minute hand” of the clock that gives the magazine its title, a striking phallic symbol is clearly discernible. Fifteen minutes, after all, is a magazine that explores the interrelations between the two so-called genders at college-age. It highlights both the old-fashion sexual subjugation of young women who “slut it up” on the weekends to the delight of their male counterparts—as well as these same women’s newfound post-feminist sexual liberation...
...reply of “I was born ready, motherfucker”) and that is okay, because Goyer understands that dialogue is really secondary when one can cover all plot points through images of perspiration, Jessica Biel washing blood off in the shower, and numerous, numerous phallic symbols (vanquishing vampires with a giant sword, shooting arrows with weird green goo in them into a target that causes a disease, vampire dildos...