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who agrees more men should be like Stanley besides the rape?


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No.

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I agree with Helena! NO! Stanley is a dumb brute, and Stella is stupid for staying with him. i shudder to think what became of her and her child.

i doubt that becoming a father is going to change him in any way. if he has a son, he'd be the type to insist he "man up" by the time the child is toddling. If the child is a girl... *shudder* She'll likely grow up and look for an animal like her father, just continuing the situation.



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The child, I believe, was a girl because the film made a point of showing a ruffled bonnet on her head in two scenes.

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The world doesn't need MORE knuckle draggers like Stanley. Why would it be a good thing???

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In the play, it's a boy because the stage directions specify he's wrapped in a blue blanket.

I'll trade you my t-shirt for a grilled cheese!

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In the play, it's a boy because the stage directions specify he's wrapped in a blue blanket.


When was the blue-pink switch made? It used to be the opposite - blue for girls and pink for boys.

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Being the "dumb brute" he was the smartest character in the play. SO if your intelligentia is as stupid as Blanche and Stella then yes, we need more Stanleys.

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That's a good point actually. None of the main characters in this film seemed to be very smart. They all had a few screws loose, and none of them were at all likeable.

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Stanley seemed sort of dumb, with an inferiority complex. But he probably made up for it in bed.






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He was just the way Blanche described him, an ape. As for his being good in bed as was suggested, when he gets out of bed he's still an ape.

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Stanley seemed sort of dumb, with an inferiority complex. But he probably made up for it in bed.

I doubt it. He's a brute and I don't think he has any idea how to please a woman. He's probably a very quick and selfish lover. Not only doesn't he understand women, including Stella, but he's very sure that men are entitled. I doubt that's the making of a great lover

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"He's a brute and I don't think he has any idea how to please a woman. He's probably a very quick and selfish lover."

Not so! The play goes to great trouble to describe that giving and receiving sexual pleasure is the core essence of his personality and that Stella is very, very satisfied. That is the only thing he has going for him.

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Lets not forget he beat up Stella.While she was pregnant.And he had a mean, vindictive streak.The rape isnt the only thing he did wrong.

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huh, fugazi means fake in Italian...

NO there should not be..

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Sounds good. I'm going to start wearing wifebeaters, quoting Huey Long, and shaking up my bottle of beer and spraying myself with it effective immediately.

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Don't forget to constantly walk around in torn shirts and throw objects around at random.

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Thanks for reminding me....I'll have to pull some old T shirts back out of the rag pile.

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Throw in pregnant wife-beating and you're all set! (Hilarious post, man! Made me laugh outloud!).

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no

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LOL at all of the replies to a topic that was obviously a joke. Haha.


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Are you kidding?

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If you mean sculpted bronze-God look then yes, I would be a very happy girl if more men looked like the young lustful Brando. However, as for his personality, absolutely no. He may have been "street smart" but what an absolute monster of a husband.

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