>.> Monday
Oh, Monday. Really.
Today, as our last film for my American Diversity class, we had to watch, "Boys Don't Cry". Now, I figured out that it would not end happily, as most films about certain issues like homesexuality or transgendered people always end sadly. I...don't know. It depressed me. And it also made me kind of angry. About what happened and all, you know, those real life events and the like, but I mean, honestly? If the main character doesn't die in any of the "other" sexuality movies, critics berate it for not being "real" and instead it is flawed and too sweet. Like, In and Out, is totally a comedy and everything, and it did get criticized for handling things too lightly, apparently. Geez. You can't have a mainstream Hollywood movie where the GLBT person doesn't get killed. Case in point, Brokeback Mountain. That wouldn't of been able to be distributed to theatres if one of the characters didn't die, because that is the way that we look at anything that we see as "sexual deviance". It makes me angry. I'd like, for once, to see a mainstream Hollywood movie take on this issue and not take the lame way out and kill the main character. But, I guess that no one would accept that in American society, the GLBT person must be "punished" by dying. >.> It makes me think of the tragic mulatto figure in any movies regarding race. She was born "wrong" as a mixed race, and so she needs to either be killed or kill herself by the end so that she can atone for the sins of her parents for having sex and having her.
Give me a break. You don't have to kill off people all the time. Man.
I think that the mistake is thinking that people will not think about the issue if no one dies, and it doesn't become "serious" unless someone dies. You can have a whole spectrum of other things happen without having to resort to killing the main character. It's true that this stuff does happen, I know, we all can read the news, it happens, but I just feel that there should be some positive examples of GLBT people in the media, living sucessfully despite all the crap they have to go through, besides over-stereotyped gay hairdressers and butch women who work at Home Depot or something.
Egad. Whatever. I just wanted to rant.
Oh to work for my 20 page English paper. Huzzah! >.> Not.
Today, as our last film for my American Diversity class, we had to watch, "Boys Don't Cry". Now, I figured out that it would not end happily, as most films about certain issues like homesexuality or transgendered people always end sadly. I...don't know. It depressed me. And it also made me kind of angry. About what happened and all, you know, those real life events and the like, but I mean, honestly? If the main character doesn't die in any of the "other" sexuality movies, critics berate it for not being "real" and instead it is flawed and too sweet. Like, In and Out, is totally a comedy and everything, and it did get criticized for handling things too lightly, apparently. Geez. You can't have a mainstream Hollywood movie where the GLBT person doesn't get killed. Case in point, Brokeback Mountain. That wouldn't of been able to be distributed to theatres if one of the characters didn't die, because that is the way that we look at anything that we see as "sexual deviance". It makes me angry. I'd like, for once, to see a mainstream Hollywood movie take on this issue and not take the lame way out and kill the main character. But, I guess that no one would accept that in American society, the GLBT person must be "punished" by dying. >.> It makes me think of the tragic mulatto figure in any movies regarding race. She was born "wrong" as a mixed race, and so she needs to either be killed or kill herself by the end so that she can atone for the sins of her parents for having sex and having her.
Give me a break. You don't have to kill off people all the time. Man.
I think that the mistake is thinking that people will not think about the issue if no one dies, and it doesn't become "serious" unless someone dies. You can have a whole spectrum of other things happen without having to resort to killing the main character. It's true that this stuff does happen, I know, we all can read the news, it happens, but I just feel that there should be some positive examples of GLBT people in the media, living sucessfully despite all the crap they have to go through, besides over-stereotyped gay hairdressers and butch women who work at Home Depot or something.
Egad. Whatever. I just wanted to rant.
Oh to work for my 20 page English paper. Huzzah! >.> Not.