The Crying Game By Neil Jordan And Loaded By Christos Tsiolkas

Ever since filmmakers started to explore the idea of focusing the story idea around ‘queer’ figures, people in society have been having mixed feelings about them. ‘Queer’ figures are basically people who are not within the male-female dichotomy. It is a term used to refer to homosexuals, transgenders and others who are unclear about their sexual preference. The queer film phenomenon was introduced in fall 1991 at Toronto’s Festival of Festivals, the best spot in North America for tracking new cinematic trends. (Rich 2013, Page 16) This got the ball rolling for more filmmakers to make films of different genres and subjectivity on this group of people. In this academic essay, the following thesis statement will be discussed – “The violence and

being classified as a late maturing girl. There were also multiple boys throughout the movie that were going through adolescents and puberty.

We do however see Viola’s reasoning for this gender change. Women are dehumanized and misrepresented in 21st Century societies. Sexism runs rampant as individuals, like Viola, aren’t able to engage in things that everyone should be able to partake in- things like sport, for instance. By faking her gender, Viola attempted to break these harsh gender barriers, and to simply be treated equally.After Viola, uh, Sebastian revealed his, or her, real gender at a soccer game, Duke and her were smitten and all over eachother. This may come to an end as we recently spoke to Viola. “I may go back to being a man. I was seen as tough and was allowed to play the sports I like without being judged.” Soon after the interview, Duke Orsino, Viola’s new love tweeted “He or she, I love this person!”. Quickly after the media acted with sexuality rumours, Duke quickly deleted the tweet. Now the questions remain, is Viola meant to be Sebastian and has Duke’s sexuality changed? Tweet your opinions to us

Although this work of fiction opens up an aspect of sexuality that would not have been recorded in its own time period, it allows for a miss-categorization of a historically underrepresented minority. If we attempted to place the modern-day label of transgender onto this historical stage, it could never truly be an accurate representation. Lowe’s movement between the genders of male to female is not completely clear. Although, at the end of the novel, he says he now wears women’s clothing he is called by both female and male gender pronouns and does not note his preference, but simply wishes to be called Lowe (Powell 241). Lowe’s lack of preference leads to the conclusion that his gender is performative and possibly fluid.

This paper examines the social aspects of the sexual identity in America, illustrating how sexual identities have progressed, evolved, and transformed. Social categories have been created as a tool used for social divide and control, inadvertently creating stereotypical facts and discriminatory opinions on sexes; while also helping create social and welcoming communities, whose goals are to diminish ideals such as those. Concluding, this paper will have explained the dichotomous categories of different sexualities and the divides within them. The already established sexual divide leaves no room for those stuck in the in between of today's society, especially one as progressive as America’s. Derived from the examples giving, this paper argues

In identifying a concept for this film, the topic of ‘Girl Meets Boy’ was interpreted as a point of discovery or realization of another existence. For this reason, it was decided that the concept of ‘SHe’ essentially circle around the idea of ‘exploring the effects that the transgender transition process has on an individual and their family’. This means that our storyline will revolve around a person going through these experiences and facing the conflict that this brings. This relates to

Other less pronounced limitations arise in regards to Jessica’s transvesting. The practice of cross-dressing becomes exceedingly important to practical applications later in the play because the women, specifically Portia, must interact with mainstream society. The resulting consequence of taking on a male façade ultimately provides empowerment for the otherwise subjugated women. Jessica’s cross-dressing, though it was insightful and served its purpose well, remains ineffective and powerless to change Lorenzo or impact society in any way. In Portia’s case, however, the potential for change exists because her character actively undercuts male conceptions of female frailty and inability, unlike Jessica’s enforcement of that very claim.

Mitzi presents another view of gay men. ‘She’ is more embarrassed about being a drag queen, especially in front of ‘her’ son stating “Sorry about last night. I don't always dress up in women's clothes. I mean don't get the wrong idea. I do lots of different stuff……… You know, like Elvis and Garry Glitter and…….” Although in the end ‘she’ loosens up when ‘she’ realizes that ‘her’ son accepts ‘her’ for whom she is. Mitzi.

“Look is that a girl no that's a boy”, this is what most people thought of Nancy Hart she was the girl who dressed as a boy.

She believed that even though males and females at obvious differences physically, but emotionally one is subdue to move across the spectrum and the meanings come from actions. In every part of The Second Sex there are examples of existentialist belief that each individual, regardless of sex, class or age, should be encouraged to define him or herself and to take on the individual responsibility that comes with freedom. Even though he brags that she cannot experience sexual satisfaction without him. Denise’s strength comes from knowing her climax was because she fought Sergius in bed, not because she has given in to him, she worked just as hard as he did. The androgynous relationship these two have, is written in war.

Thirdly, queers challenge the categories as well as binaries of sexual and gender by questioning the categories and binaries’ reasonability. Queer theorists concern about how and why the categories of gender and sexuality are shaped, thinking the main reason is to better control people so as to achieve political goals. As de Lauretis (1991) stated, the existing strategies of homosexual, which is created based on the existing categories of gender and sexuality, is to ensure the “ center” integrated. Moreover, they reject and question the usefulness of categories. According to

In Max’s experience of being intersexed, Max suffered a subjective horror regarding his sex. Max was born with both genitalia, but upon the surgeon’s decision of removing Max’s male genital, he grew up facing dissonance between his gender and sexuality. He constantly felt discomfort when trying to start his relationships, often feeling something was wrong or off. When he found out his sex, he said that he was a monster. In contrast Max’s experience, Koh, rather than having an internal conflict in herself, chose to embrace who she was, a ladyboy. She believes that she does belong in the social constructs of gender, but rather suggesting that it makes no difference. She found a man she loves and is willing to get married even though she was a

During an episode of The Cleveland Show a man sleeps with a character who turns out to be transgender and is literally sickened by this fact. Although not a television show, The Crying Game is partially responsible for bringing this idea to the general public. Serano references this movie in “Whipping Girl”, which shows a similar repulsed reaction when the character reveals she is physically male. Serano also states “the media hypersexualizes us by creating the impression that most trans women are sex workers or sexual deceivers” (Serano, 16). They are either deceptive by tricking us with their penises, or they are pathetic and ugly, which makes them look like a failed woman.

The central conflict of the book Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides is gender identity which is shown through Calliope’s struggle with determining and accepting her true gender as a hermaphrodite. The conflict also affects other characters as it causes grief, confusion, and leads to. Calliope’s first encounter with her gender identity crisis was when she develops feelings and sexual attraction to the Object which is stated in “Jerome knew what I was, as suddenly I did, too, for the first time clearly understood that I wasn’t a girl but something in between. I knew this from how natural it had felt to enter Rex Reese’s body, how right it felt, and I knew this from the shocked expression on Jerome’s face”(375). The experience of having intercourse with Jerome and fantasizing being in Rex’s position shows that Calliope isn’t just a female but something in between and that adds more to her suspicion and confusion of her actual gender. This also affects other characters as it leads up to Calliope having a sexual relationship with the Object which reveals the Object’s true feelings towards Calliope and her actual sexuality. She also has another encounter with her gender identity when she discovers that she’s biologically a boy who had been raised as a girl. In the file by Dr. Luce, it describes Calliope’s condition with the description “ As the girl’s gender identity was firmly established as female at that time

     At first, as I was watching the movie, I was confused as to why Teena wanted to dress up at as a man and be called Brandon. I thought that maybe she was just lesbian that