The Unknown world of Teenage Girls

Recently in my Women Studies class we viewed a movie called " Boys Don't Cry." What I thought of the movie was that it showed a very, very realistic (obviously it was based on true story) and very different view of a teenage girl life. Many of the movies that we have discussed in our book have dealed with a lot of the same types of girls and going through the same issues and then there were a couple of them that did stray from mainstream, but none of them touched the subject of transgender. In "Boys don't Cry" Teena Brandon was born a female but lived the life of man by the name of Brandon Teena. The thing is about this movie is that there are a lot of people out in the world that live as Brandon did, hiding their true identity to feel accepted in the world. And seeing the way Brandon was raped and then murdered, I wouldn't really blame them for keeping it a secret. It's really sad how people react to things that they fear and is unknown to them, by either harassing that individual group or trying to wipe it out completely. I believe that this was a really good movie to show to mainstream audiences, because it removes many rose colored glasses from in front of peoples eyes and to let them step into another group of peoples world

Coming of Age with a bang!!!

What I feel about my "Female Adolescence in Film" class is that I really enjoy the class. Like all my other women studies classes it makes you think and view your normal everyday things differently. For instance, alot of the movies that we discuss in class are some of my most favorite movies. "What a girl wants", "Ella Enchanted", "Clueless", "Everafter" and many others that I like to watch over and over again. But the thing is majority of these movies have the same theme, the plot and the same endings. Well I mean of course everyone loves a happy ending even me, but then these movies kind of give a unrealistic hope for young females. I mean think about, In three of those movies that I listed, the girl does go throught trial and what-nots but they all end up with the prince! I mean really, how many people do you even know that knows a prince? I know I don't. Not only are all the endings are same happy ending with getting the guy and driving off into the sunset, I realize that more than half of the films we discuss have the whole "make-over empowerment" scenes. I mean I love to go shopping and getting my hair also, but it would be nice to show young females that you don't have to be extra glamed out to have confidence or to feel empowered. But then on the other hand, sometimes when you look your best, you feel your best,so...i don't know. Anyways, I really enjoy this class and that i'm glad that I had the opportunity to be in it. And that I hope for future mainsteam films that they would learn to spread their wings and show different forms of beauty so that all young females would feel beautiful too.

Bloggin for Class

Hi, i'm Arlette and this is my first blog!!! HOORAY!!!! I have to do this for class, but I've been to other people's blog and I really enjoy theirs....sooooooo.....who knows I might keep this one even when the class is over.