at least Billy wasn't
gay!
What a stupid, homophobic comment!
shareGood job at making yourself look like a fool, nakedgirl.
He won. Get over it.
Good job at making yourself look like a fool, nakedgirl.
Ironically, no, the poster is not looking foolish. I see "gay" set off your anger, though.
The point is: if Billy was known to be gay, Nurse Ratched was be even more difficult with him, considering homosexuality was even more disdained that it is now.
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Wait a minute. In the context of the character and the story? Or projecting a disdain outside the movie?
Billy, especially in that time frame, 1950's/60's certainly caricatured a stereotype. I haven't read the book but I bet it did too. The idea of a "Momma's boy" even in psychiatric labeling would have indicated homosexual tendencies.
Let the poster explain them self.
I sometimes wondered if his suicide attempt was because of only disappointing his mother or also for more personal reasons.
Someone that read the book maybe could elaborate.
Remember this was 50 years ago, not todays perceptions.
Ephemeron.
Although you're right that being a "Momma's boy" was often (at sometimes still is) a stereotype which hinted at the person being gay, but in this case (both in the book and the movie) he is heterosexual and his mother (as well as nurse Ratchet) wants to prevent him from becoming a man (which says more about the mother and hints at her problems with men). Those gay Momma's boys usually voluntarily adore their mothers (even if they are domineering characters), Billy just fears his mother (who knows what she has done to him when he was little, there's much room for speculation, she's possibly punished him for something his father did; she did emasculate him against his will).
shareThe book makes absolutely no implications that Billy was homosexual. Billy is very much heterosexual in the book.
On the other hand, Harding's homosexuality is referenced in many passages in the book.
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