David Bell argues that far from going against the "current of class stereotype", this scene, like "Deliverance", "mobilize[s] a certain construction of poor white country folk — and particularly their sexualization ... 'rustic sexual expression often takes the form of homosexual rape' in American movies." Stephen Paul Miller believes the "Pulp Fiction" scene goes down much easier than the one it echoes: "The buggery perpetrated is not at all as shocking as it was in "Deliverance" ... The nineties film reduces seventies competition, horror, and taboo into an entertainingly subtle adrenaline play — a fiction, a pulp fiction." Giroux reads the rape scene homage similarly: "in the end Tarantino's use of parody is about repetition, transgression, and softening the face of violence by reducing it to the property of film history." In Groth's view, the crucial difference is that "in "Deliverance" the rape created the film's central moral dilemma whereas in "Pulp Fiction" it was merely 'the single weirdest day of [Butch's] life.'" (""American Me" did it too," Tarantino observed. "There's like "three" butt-fucking scenes in "American Me". That's definitely the one to beat in that particular category!") Neil Fulwood focuses on Butch's weapon selection, writing, "Here, Tarantino's love of movies is at its most open and nonjudgemental, tipping a nod to the noble and the notorious, as well as sending up his own reputation as an enfant terrible of movie violence. Moreover, the scene makes a sly comment about the readiness of cinema to seize upon whatever is to hand for its moments of mayhem and murder." White asserts that "the katana he finally, and significantly, selects identifies him with ... honourable heroes." Conard argues that the first three items symbolize a nihilism that Butch is rejecting. The traditional Japanese sword, in contrasts, represents a culture with a well-defined moral code and thus connects Butch with a more meaningful approach to life. Robert Miklitsch argues that "Tarantino's telephilia" may be more central to the guiding sensibility of "Pulp Fiction" than the filmmaker's love for rock 'n' roll and even cinema: Talking about his generation, one that came of age in the '70s, Tarantino has commented that the "number one thing we all shared wasn't music, that was a Sixties thing.