"In her presentation entitled “White Heteromasculinity, Anal Resilience, and the Erotic Spectacle of Repulsion”, Jane Ward, author and explorer of gender at the University of California Riverside, shows a captive NYU audience provocative images of the white American heterosexual male’s obsession with homoerotic acts."
WTF? What kind of mental gymnastics do they people have to exercise to come up with this crap? Why are they even allowed to teach such nonsense? "Anal Resilience"...what's her obsession about? "White American heterosexual male's obsession with homoerotic acts"? That doesn't even make sense if you're a straight man. And what's with the racist "white" thing?
"In her presentation entitled “White Heteromasculinity, Anal Resilience, and the Erotic Spectacle of Repulsion”, Jane Ward, author and explorer of gender at the University of California Riverside, shows a captive NYU audience provocative images of the white American heterosexual male’s obsession with homoerotic acts."
WTF?
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My exact thoughts, in the same words.
I would add, the caption-writer was possibly reaching for the word "captivated."
Yet "captive audience" seems so much more appropriate, doesn't it?