For my writing prompt, I chose the topic of gender. I watched Kimberly Pierce’s Boys Don't Cry because it was based off true events and actually showed the challenging situation where someone's gender did not conform to societal expectations in the year 1993. This movie emphasizes three main sociological concepts: how your sex doesn't always match your gender, society fears what they do not understand, and how there are advantages of being one gender and not the other as a result of society’s stereotypes. In this essay, I am going to discuss how the concepts play a part in this movie and how they bring up points in our everyday life.
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It feels that there was a much bigger challenge of homophobia back when this movie first came out, but it is still relevant in today's society. In the beginning of the movie, some boys are chasing Brandon Teena due to him dating one of their sisters. Another case of this happens when he moves to another town and makes some best friends. When they find out his real sex, they kill him and another girl that he was friends with. These men are so fearful of their own masculinity becoming endangered that they are compelled to put Brandon and everyone involved down, going so far as killing him and Candace. Fear can be a dangerous emotion. Throughout society, people will go as far as to to enslave people and take away their basic human rights. Just like in Nazi-era Germany, Hitler made the Germans fear and hate Jewish citizens the so much that they persecuted and killed any Jew they found. Fear is not to be taken lightly. Many awful events can happen if we do not take the time out of our daily lives to understand something instead of growing to hate. Even though homophobia is less of a issue in today's society as it was in the past, we should still try to understand it and accept. Fear, hate, and anger are cancers to our society and we should not allow them to control us. Boys Don’t Cry does a great job of embodying what can
To understand this movie, one must understand the difference between sex and gender identity. Sex refers to …show more content…
It feels that there was a much bigger challenge of homophobia back when this movie first came out, but it is still relevant in today's society. In the beginning of the movie, some boys are chasing Brandon Teena due to him dating one of their sisters. Another case of this happens when he moves to another town and makes some best friends. When they find out his real sex, they kill him and another girl that he was friends with. These men are so fearful of their own masculinity becoming endangered that they are compelled to put Brandon and everyone involved down, going so far as killing him and Candace. Fear can be a dangerous emotion. Throughout society, people will go as far as to to enslave people and take away their basic human rights. Just like in Nazi-era Germany, Hitler made the Germans fear and hate Jewish citizens the so much that they persecuted and killed any Jew they found. Fear is not to be taken lightly. Many awful events can happen if we do not take the time out of our daily lives to understand something instead of growing to hate. Even though homophobia is less of a issue in today's society as it was in the past, we should still try to understand it and accept. Fear, hate, and anger are cancers to our society and we should not allow them to control us. Boys Don’t Cry does a great job of embodying what can