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Forum # 5 In the documentary “Growing up Trans” the main conclusion is that there is another way to battle certain issues. “In the film, Alex who is a transgender boy was born a girl who felt uncomfortable with her body and decided the best option was to become a boy”(Growing up Trans) It demonstrates just because a person is born a boy or girl, it does not mean their sexuality has to be confined to society’s standards.…
Christine Jorgensen was one of the first in modern American history to be outwardly transgender. Christine was in World War II as a soldier born George. During her time in the World War II, she started to look for a surgeon to “physically transform him into her” (Steinmetz 40). As a result, Christine was honorably discharged for the army. This story was a headline on December 1, 1952 for the New York Daily News. In a newsletter, Jorgensen wrote, “Nature made a mistake, […] which I have had corrected” (Steinmetz 40). Jorgensen’s story created so much chatter for the transgender world. It was said she, “became a national sensation and led some Americans to question ideas…
Raine Dozier starts her essay by comparing and contrasting the conclusions of other researches about the relation of sex and gender. In her own study she used a grounded theory, which “expands our understanding of qualitative research” (Kimmel 532). This means that the interviewer and the interviewees share some common aspects; therefore, they are more likely to relate and feel at ease with each other that might allow obtaining more honest results. That is why Dozier reveal herself as a transgendered and she explains that identify herself as trans “gave her easier access to trans people and made it easier for interviewees to confide in me… because I had familiarity with common cultural terms customs, and issues” (Kimmel 532). Dozier’s sample…
Within the article, “Is It Time to Desegregate the Sexes?” by, Judith Shulevitz, there are many different methods used to convey the onion of the author which can be summarized as, in modern America there is a dramatic need for reform in the rights of transgender citizens, particularly for students.…
First off I would like to say that I really liked this movie. It was very informative and was well put together. I didn’t know what to expect coming to watch it, but now I understand why this movie was chosen and explains a lot about how families with deaf parents go about their daily lives and all the circumstances they go through. I would recommend this movie to everyone because I think it would make everyone understand a lot more about the Deaf Culture and it was an awesome film.…
Love could always lead to various outcomes. I feel like Rokujō is the most affectionate woman in the tale. She loves Genji with her truest heart, but Genji is very fickle in love, and his capriciousness makes Rokujō’s love turns into hate involuntarily. Rokujō is supposed to have a splendor life and live without any worries. She is intelligent and brilliant, and she is supposed to be the future Empress. However, everything has been changed after her husband died, and her affair with Genji turns her life into misery and tragedy.…
The treatment of “Boys Don't Cry” highlights the slant against homosexuality. In the romantic comedy “Pretty Woman” and the family-friendly film “Ghostbusters,” leading male characters–Richard Gere in “Pretty Woman” and Dan Aykroyd in “Ghostbusters”–receive oral sex from females (albeit, a poltergeist female in “Ghostbusters”) yet only earn an R and PG rating, respectively.…
The movie Love and Mercy is about Brian Wilson who struggles from paranoid schizophrenic. The movie has two different time that goes back to 1960 and 1980. In the 1960 where his beach boys were in the studio recording music. At the party, Brian tells his brothers that he doesn’t want to go on tour with them. But Brian wants to stay home and write music. Brian’s brother agrees to let him do it. Brian plays a part of God Only Knows for his father who is their former manager before he was fired. Brian’s father was fired because Brian was abused by his father and he never give him support as a father. Brian knows that his father tells him the song isn’t good. While Brian was in the studio working with the musicians on Wouldn’t It Be Nice and God Only Knows. His members of the Beach Boy agree that he is a musical genius. As it goes on Brian and the other members of the band aside from Mike are heavily into drugs and LSD. Brian begins to hearing voices. Eventually Brian’s music and his lyrics don’t even make sense. In the 1980s, is where Brian meets a woman in the Cadillac dealership and her name is Melinda Ledbetter. She is a car saleswoman. While Brian was in the Cadillac dealership, he acts strange to Melinda that he wants the car right from the show room. Melinda…
John Oliver's observations changed my views on this issue dramatically and refuted my strong belief that decades of more open discussion of transgender persons' problems by popular media managed to ensure their cultural acceptance in the same way as educative attempts made by media over last decades helped to reduce cultural prejudices against bisexuals or homosexuals. This comedian also challenged my belief that decades of discussion of this issue by media would inevitably result in substantial increase in awareness about transgender people and their needs. Nevertheless, contrary to my beliefs, many people who regularly appear on television still lack basic knowledge about transgender people what in turn demonstrates that American popular culture is still not ready to treat all people equally without regard to their gender identity.…
Cheesy special effects? Check! Gore? Check! Kane Hodder? Check! Mutated men wearing Bigfoot costumes? Check! Bodacious Babes? Double D Check! Love in the Time of Monsters is a low budget ($500,000 is considered low budget nowadays) flick about toxic waste pollution gone awry. It's riddled with groan-inducing moments, but I gotta admit, I had a fun time with it. It very well could be that Heather Rae Young is smoking hot (the other woman in the movie aren't bad on the eyes either) and seeing her dance, to distract crazed Bigfoots, is something that I haven't seen before, but realize was missing from life for a very long time. Also, mutated squirrels ripping shirts off is a massive highlight.…
Patricelli, Kathryn. "Mental Health Care, Inc." Mental Health Care, Inc. Mental Health Care, Inc., n.d. Web. 01 Dec. 2012. <http://www.mhcinc.org/poc/view_doc.php?type=doc>.…
There are no prerequisites for love and belonging, we are deserving of love and belonging simply by reason of existence. This is one of the abounding stunning ideas found in Brené Brown’s work. However, this was such a foreign idea to my way of being and of relating to the world that I had no salutation node towards it nor an A-ha moment. Only after repeated readings and listening did the clouds disperse. Theoretically I recognized its truth, but at some level I felt this truth did not refer to me.…
This is what a lot of the world viewed homosexuality as, and because of ignominy that surrounded the community of homosexuals, film organizations were in no way going make anything with homosexuality involved or even a subdued context.…
When reading a biography of Judith Butler, a person would typically see a discussion of a highly intelligent philosopher of feminism, political theory, ethical and moral responsibility or gender studies. Her bibliographies are commonly describes as have a career focused on “research ranging from literary theory, modern philosophical fiction, feminist, gender and sexuality studies, to 19th- and 20th-century European literature and philosophy, Kafka and loss, mourning and war. Her most recent endeavors include an exploration of war as it relates to Jewish- Zionist theory” so her category of theorization is far reaching (Dunn 157). Throughout all of my digging, I was not able to find much information on Butler’s influence in media and communications and yet her most famous work, Gender Trouble, is one we will eventually study in this Media and Society class. I began by delving deep into this particular piece and branched out from there in hopes of grasping why Butler is so widely read in the communications field.…
At Creating Change in 2014 Laverne Cox gave a speech all about the many challenges faced by transgender people in America. These challenges ranged from violence, to visibility, to unfair treatment in the criminal justice system. GLAAD defines a transgender person as someone whose “gender identity differs from the sex the doctor marked on their birth certificate.” (“Transgender FAQ”). Transgender people face many issues in America, and all over the world. In the first four months of 2014 there were already 102 acts of violence against transgender people, and 41% will attempt to commit suicide. Laverne Cox is certainly an authority to speak on these issues since she has either experienced these things first hand or knows plenty who have.…