Officer Healy is another corrections officer in Orange is the New Black who is extremely homophobic and chauvinistic. While Healy has the role of the “surveyor” and bearer of the look, his actions support Gaines’ theory. While he “surveys” the inmates, the way he looks at and treats them is based on his judgement of their race, and, most importantly to him, their sexual preference. When Piper is first introduced to Healy he initially seems to be on her side. He advises her to keep to herself, not make friends, and absolutely no “lesbian sex.” He also states how people might peg her for rich and try to use her for commissary. Immediately he discriminates lesbians, and addresses her white, middle-class privileges. One instance he puts a…show more content… Theorist Mary Ann Doane addresses the female perception in her essay “Film and Masquerade: Theorizing the Female Spectator.” As woman have to-be-looked-at-ness and are objectified as the object of the gaze, they are objectifying themselves. Doane suggests in her essay that females over analyze themselves and need to disconnect from this idea. She uses the idea of masquerade to take control of their gaze, so in a racial incidence one would mask themselves with the notion of the patriarchal society. In Orange is the New Black, the female inmates take the masculine role as the “surveyor” and objectify and judge one another, which determines how they are treated. The series revolves around the thematic idea of taking a privileged white girl and stripping her of everything she…show more content… Once sentenced to prison, all of these aspects of her life are taken away and she is placed in an unknown environment surrounded by diversity, leaving her vulnerable. Kohan portrays the character’s roles of the “surveyor” casually in their dialogue. In the incident where Healy lets her off with a warning after putting an inmate in the SHU, he tells her that they are “not like you and me, they’re less reasonable, less educated.” With her mother comes for a visit she tells her that she is “nothing like any of these women.” Inmates will make direct comments to her, as well, commenting on her appearance and mannerisms. Two African female characters, Poussey and Taystee, talk about how they should aim to “look like the Black best friend in a white girl movie.” The show expands further than race and includes the LGBTQ community. Lesbianism is common throughout the characters, even with the main protagonist, as well as characters such as Sophia, an African transgender, who have open conversations as well. Feminist Tope Fadiran Charlton explains that “the juxtaposition of these conversations arguably invites the conclusion that each of these groups are equally engaged in the same kind of prejudiced stereotyping.” In other words, each form of diversity, whether gender or race or sexual preference, takes upon the role of bearer of the