"Photos of Torture and Abuse at Abu-Ghraib Are Evident of the Violent

Multiple Choice

"Photos of torture and abuse at Abu-Ghraib are evident of the violent act of unveiling, stripping, and penetration, the ultimate act of cultural and sexual domination over an _______ Iraqi order. Male Iraqi prisoners were represented in the Abu-Ghraib photos as the opposite of what a US militarist and hypersexual soldier should be. The Iraqi prisoners were represented as helpless, obedient, and docile (read feminine) others. They were sexually dominated, degraded, and forced to simulate _______ acts. Within this homophobic, militarized, racist, and sexist representation, US military were defining their position as well as the nature of their domination over Iraqi others."

A) feminized; heterosexual
B) emasculate; homosexual
C) masculine; homosocial
D) masculine; heterosexual
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