Postbinarist, pan-gendered work has been done over the past decades by such cultural critics as Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Griselda Pollock, and Barbara Johnson—all serious general influences here.

Violence extends from harassment in the street or at work to various forms of misrespect, such as treating individuals as objects, assault and sexual abuse inside and outside the family, as well as rape, the illegal trade in women, …

When they were boyes at trap, or slatter-pouch, they'd sweat.

Gibbons, as Jackson plays him, unflinchingly responds, “A small price I paid for putting foot to ass for my country,” oddly vivid metaphorical language.