Manhood In Quick Mike's Adequate

Early in the film, the spectators first glimpse at life in the “civilized” Old West a scene, Little Bill Finds Out What Happened, portraying the subjugation of women and the violence that stems from false perceptions of manhood. In this scene, Strawberry Alice tells Little Bill Daggett why Quick Mike cut Delilah and says “all she done when she seen he had a teensy little pecker is give a giggle.” Charles H.Stember a professor of sociology and social psychology, comments in his seminal book Sexual Racism: The Emotional Barrier to an Integrated Society, “[t]here is no evidence that penis size is an index of…[the] ability to satisfy a woman” (59). Nonetheless, the contradiction in Quick Mike’s perverted socially constructed idea of manhood equates