Group 2 blog question

How are women and the people of color placed in the film? How did those groups shape the counter-culture masculinities of Wyatt and Billy?
First of all, the portraits of women and the people of color in this move are in parallel that their roles taken in this movie are apparently and obviously minor roles. Women's passiveness, permissiveness, and irrationality, in an absence of independence to express rationale or perspectives other than speaking up for by-passing moments of completing details in the plot makes me think that themselves are recognizing the relationship between women and male as vertical and pyramidal rather than horizontal. At the rancher's house where Billy and Wyatt stop to fix their motorcycles we see the first woman role on the screen, however, she doesn't seem to have an authority to express--that every individual is born with-- in this case, curiosity towards strangers out loud nor in presence of willing to be treated as any'man' else. For colored people it's even more--not even in presence in the film, but a sense of them only melt in characters' conversations as a means of expressing hostility and harassment on Billy, George and Wyatt--which makes them leave the dinner. Especially, regarding the fact that the film often shows exposure of physical body part of women and that the film does not show any bit of nakedness of male figures, women in this movie are portrayed as not more than a means of fulfilling one of the masculine ambitions that Billy and Wyatt have started off from the beginning--luxury of enjoying moments of freedom, away from any responsibility, under a fancy title of the Southern journey to Mardi Gra.
All of these highlight the masculinity of Billy and Wyatt because this whole story of hitting the road to South was able to dream and achieve only since they weren't women or people of color. Guys are always in pace--even in the jail--because they are in aware of the fact that by being a man they hold an authority enjoy such adventure, even if it ends up in a merciless and dreadful accident.