Boys Won T Always Be Boys Analysis

Boys Won’t Always be “Boys” Growing up as a boy in America today you are expected to do masculine things like playing sports, watching “boyish” shows and liking girls. It is programmed into our brains from the minute we are born that masculinity is good and femininity is bad; when it comes to the way we should be acting. From the minute we get wrapped up in that blue blanket society is telling us that pink is not for you, that’s for the girls. I used the Kuleshov effect in the film project to demonstrate how the dominant culture in America frowns upon young boys acting feminine and praises young boys that fit into the role of the masculine male. In the Kuleshov effect film I decided to use an image of Kanye West smiling after showing a photo of a boy doing things socially accepted. I also included a photo of Kanye West frowning after every image of a boy not falling into his heteronormative role in society. This is a perfect representation of many, not all, fathers and the way they praise their sons when they are …show more content…
This dates back to the founding of America. Dale Spender points out in “Language and Reality, Who Made the World?” that many of the ideas we accept as normal have been constructed by heteronormative white males. Language shapes the world around us and these men did not care to understand gender/queer theory. They left words out that would describe boys that are feminine and girls that are masculine. With no words to describe these people it almost implies that they don’t exist, hence, they don’t matter. This can be reversed by teaching our youth the words that describe these people that don’t fit into the masculine male or feminine female category. If we teach children not everyone is the same sexually then people of the LGBTQ community will no longer be out casted but instead considered normal just like everyone