https://padlet.com/jasonmmiller1975/j4trhrfmpraq Movie about transgender boy/man en-us 2019-11-04 05:01:50 UTC 2019-12-12 07:53:56 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/File.png jasonmmiller1975 https://padlet.com/jasonmmiller1975/j4trhrfmpraq/wish/408008343 Judging a book by its cover, I assumed this movie was about a boy who was traveling somewhere. I also thought by the stern look on his face that something bad happened. Probably kidnapped, raped, or killed.]]> 2019-11-07 12:23:34 UTC https://padlet.com/jasonmmiller1975/j4trhrfmpraq/wish/408008343 jasonmmiller1975 https://padlet.com/jasonmmiller1975/j4trhrfmpraq/wish/408010730 Wow! Only 20 years later? You would think that, as the sheriff, something like this happening in your town you would make sure it never happened again. You'd be wrong. Sure, the sheriff eventually gets people to come in to train his deputies, but not because he went out and looked for it. I think he felt obligated, but would have preferred to just "leave it in the past."]]> 2019-11-07 12:31:11 UTC https://padlet.com/jasonmmiller1975/j4trhrfmpraq/wish/408010730 jasonmmiller1975 https://padlet.com/jasonmmiller1975/j4trhrfmpraq/wish/408015110 I found it interesting that Hillary Swank was criticized because she took the role playing a trans-man when she is a cisgender woman. Especially considering all of the good things that came out of the film. The director was also criticized because she's a cisgender lesbian. I'm guessing, but maybe the trans community wasn't as large when the film was made and it was much harder to find a trans person to direct the film or star in it? ]]> 2019-11-07 12:44:21 UTC https://padlet.com/jasonmmiller1975/j4trhrfmpraq/wish/408015110 jasonmmiller1975 https://padlet.com/jasonmmiller1975/j4trhrfmpraq/wish/408018829 Yet another actress who is afraid of the backlash for saying anything about the films she's been in because she's not LGBTQ. I wouldn't care what the orientation of the person portraying me in a film is. As long as they're doing it in good faith and to the best of their abilities, I don't care. Someone like Chloe Sevigny, however, should be commended for taking a chance on a role that could have destroyed her career. The fact that she took the role, and many other roles like it, shows that she actually cares about the LGBTQ community. ]]> 2019-11-07 12:52:38 UTC https://padlet.com/jasonmmiller1975/j4trhrfmpraq/wish/408018829 jasonmmiller1975 https://padlet.com/jasonmmiller1975/j4trhrfmpraq/wish/408027310 Three people were killed that night in 1993, but only one wasn't mentioned in the movie. Phillip Devine. A black man with only one leg. Why was he not included? Not even mentioned at the end of the movie? Was it because he was black? ]]> 2019-11-07 13:11:26 UTC https://padlet.com/jasonmmiller1975/j4trhrfmpraq/wish/408027310 jasonmmiller1975 https://padlet.com/jasonmmiller1975/j4trhrfmpraq/wish/422827119 Interesting take on the movie with a lot of self-reflection. The fact that they had to put a disclaimer at the beginning apologizing for the mistake of labeling Teena Brandon as "butch" instead of "Transgender" or "male" shows how difficult the subject is to navigate. Also, that the author considers this movie a "romance story" is pretty sad. ]]> 2019-12-11 16:46:26 UTC https://padlet.com/jasonmmiller1975/j4trhrfmpraq/wish/422827119 jasonmmiller1975 https://padlet.com/jasonmmiller1975/j4trhrfmpraq/wish/422836504 According to this article, Matthew Shepard, the young, gay man who was killed 6 years after Brandon, was killed for drugs, not because he was gay. Why is that relevant to a discussion on "Boys Don't Cry?" The movie wasn't made until the year after Shepard was killed which made national headlines. He came from a prominent family, unlike Brandon, and he was gay, not trans. All things that made Shepard's story more "palatable" to the American public. ]]> 2019-12-11 16:59:41 UTC https://padlet.com/jasonmmiller1975/j4trhrfmpraq/wish/422836504 jasonmmiller1975 https://padlet.com/jasonmmiller1975/j4trhrfmpraq/wish/422842988 Was a gay man who was tortured, beaten, set on fire, and left for dead in a small town in Wyoming. Captured the nation's attention and helped set the stage for future legislation to protect the LGBT community. Unlike Brandon's mother, Shepard's parents stood by their son after his death and never "misgendered" him. ]]> 2019-12-11 17:09:22 UTC https://padlet.com/jasonmmiller1975/j4trhrfmpraq/wish/422842988 jasonmmiller1975 https://padlet.com/jasonmmiller1975/j4trhrfmpraq/wish/422855377 I think it's telling how society views, or at least how society used to view, the transgender community, when it's practically impossible to find accurate statistics from only 20-25 years ago. While not all of the people in this report were killed because of their gender, it does seem to represent a higher than normal percentage of violence against the trans population. ]]> 2019-12-11 17:28:02 UTC https://padlet.com/jasonmmiller1975/j4trhrfmpraq/wish/422855377 jasonmmiller1975 https://padlet.com/jasonmmiller1975/j4trhrfmpraq/wish/423118272 In one study, 1 in 2 transgender people will be sexually assaulted in their lifetime. In another, that rises to 66%, or 2 out of 3 people. The rate goes up even more when the transperson is also a person of color. ]]> 2019-12-12 05:56:33 UTC https://padlet.com/jasonmmiller1975/j4trhrfmpraq/wish/423118272 jasonmmiller1975 https://padlet.com/jasonmmiller1975/j4trhrfmpraq/wish/423120724 I can't imagine what it feels like to have your child violently murdered, but to not honor him/her by continuing to misgender Brandon doesn't endear JoAnn to the LGBTQ community. That being said, I'm a little torn on what should be put on Brandon's tombstone. On one hand, I feel like I would want to put the name I gave my daughter at birth, but on the other, it's a disservice to Brandon to not put the name he wanted to go by. The epitaph says, "Daughter, Sister, & Friend."  ]]> 2019-12-12 06:17:21 UTC https://padlet.com/jasonmmiller1975/j4trhrfmpraq/wish/423120724 jasonmmiller1975 https://padlet.com/jasonmmiller1975/j4trhrfmpraq/wish/423122939 As someone who has personally dealt with movie producers taking liberties with the truth, I can attest to the anger that is felt when things you know to be false are put in a movie. It's even worse when it's a story about friends of yours who have been killed. I understand the reasoning the producer has for changing and omitting details that, to the people who were there, are not insignificant, but that doesn't make it any easier. ]]> 2019-12-12 06:36:25 UTC https://padlet.com/jasonmmiller1975/j4trhrfmpraq/wish/423122939 jasonmmiller1975 https://padlet.com/jasonmmiller1975/j4trhrfmpraq/wish/423126684 The author, Carolyn Gage, doesn't buy in to the notion that Brandon was transgender. Gage, herself a lesbian, states that "gender dysphoria" due to PTSD caused by incest when Brandon was a child is to blame for Brandon's behavior. She also states that a friend of Brandon's said Brandon's response to "Brandon" was, "Brandon was gone. Her name is Teena." That exchange happened between Brandon's beating and Brandon's killing a week later.]]> 2019-12-12 07:05:42 UTC https://padlet.com/jasonmmiller1975/j4trhrfmpraq/wish/423126684 jasonmmiller1975 https://padlet.com/jasonmmiller1975/j4trhrfmpraq/wish/423131132 This book, by author Aphrodite Jones, was the inspiration for Boys Don't Cry. Jones maintains that the film company, Fox, tied up her book instead of making a movie from her writings like she was told. According to the reviews, Jones goes into detail about the people involved in the "Teena Brandon" story, regardless of how far removed from Brandon they were.]]> 2019-12-12 07:27:46 UTC https://padlet.com/jasonmmiller1975/j4trhrfmpraq/wish/423131132 jasonmmiller1975 https://padlet.com/jasonmmiller1975/j4trhrfmpraq/wish/423133919 We've come a long way in just 20 years. Boys Don't Cry was chosen by the Library of Congress on December 11, 2019 to be preserved forever for its "cultural, historic, and aesthetic importance to the nation’s film heritage." Pretty significant when you look at the other films that were included; one of which was made in 1903. With an average wait time of 51 years until these films were inducted into the Library of Congress, Boys Don't Cry's acceptance was relative quick.]]> 2019-12-12 07:40:01 UTC https://padlet.com/jasonmmiller1975/j4trhrfmpraq/wish/423133919