The amateur sleuths of the Donovan committee, many of them former socialite appeasers from the state department, follow the same practices as the superdicks in the Army and Navy.1942 November 30, Drew Pearson, “'Junior Gestapo' Listens in On Army and Navy Telephone Calls”, in St. Petersburg Times:
But unlike his peers who readily identified with the hard-boiled superdicks played by Humphrey Bogart and William Powell, Dyer found it easier to relate to the villains and supporting characters like Clifton Webb's prissy Waldo in Laura and Peter Lorre's scented sissy in The Maltese Falcon.1996 April 11, Derrick Mathis, “Film Notes: remembering the real movie queens”, in Chicago Reader:
The pedestal reverence of white men (particularly in the deep South) for their women and their insane ritual of making the black man a disemboweled corpse are like hideous mirrors reflecting the white man's sexual agony and his paranoic terror of the mythic big black superdick having universal congress with the mythic white supercunt.1971, Iceberg Slim, Naked Soul of Iceberg Slim, Holloway House, published 2004, →ISBN, pages 171–172: