Indeed, it's arguable that the real bogeyman here is Hugh Jake Wearyy), the butch louse who first seduces and then immediately abandons Jay, and whose cowardly machismo speaks directly to the gender subtexts of Mitchell's playfully discursive script.
The issue of gender differences is a subtext in the rough contact of these matches.
If a programme has a boys-toys gender stereotype as a subtext, chances are I'll have some connection with it.
Last year Luaka Bop released a three-disc set, "Studies of Tom Zé," comprising a trilogy of pieces recorded across 33 years, and so he had his work cut out for him: a full slate of songs from those albums, eccentric and philosophical meditations on Brazilian music, with serious subtexts about gender roles, patriarchal societies and the power of art.
Though rarely acknowledged in open discourse, race and gender issues are a hidden subtext in most offices.
They can convey subtext and eroticism and gender politics and attachment just as well as almost anything else.
And so, for younger voters at least, what's truly remarkable, for all the discussion about the subtext of race and gender in the campaign, is how much of an afterthought history has actually been.
It might seem as if the subtext is to upend the dominant gender colour-coding of the era, with the Pink Windmill consistently shown to be superior to the blue-walled Gloomy Fortress where Grotbags hatches her schemes to snatch Emu.
When her husband discusses the subtext of the film he mirrors the importance of gender cooperation.
We're talking about a subtext of violence, hair pulling, slapping, spitting, abusive language during sex - the very extreme gender power relationships in which the man is all powerful and the woman is submissive".
