I Am Poem Video Blog

Venus Boyz

I think by missing the first half of this documentary made me less understand the true concept that this documentary is trying to bring forth. Before seeing this film, I thought it was about solely "drag kings" but after watching the second portion of the film it really is about both drag queens and kings. What was interesting to me is that this is the first time i have actually heard the term "drag kings." I know there are people in the world who are women and dress up as men, but never gave them the name "drag kings." It amazes me how someone can be so ridiculed by society but even so, that someone doesn't conform to societal standards. This is similar to the other groups who are forced to conform to these standards but resist this. Groups such as, homosexuals, minorities, and others groups who struggle due to societal standards. This movie gave me a new out look on gender because I never knew there could be so many identities and in fact one shouldn't have to conform to any identity, they should be their own person.

Pressure To Be Someone You Are Not

In the story Reviving Ophelia by Mary Pipher, the protagonist, Polly, had a lot of pressure to be someone she is not. When she was an adolescent, she played "boyish" games such as Marauders where she showed her fellow marauders rituals to become "brothers". Since she was young, the children around her have not separated by gender so they do not know the difference of sexes. So this is why it is not weird by societal for girls and boys to play together and think that they are of the same gender when they are that young. But when she ages to her teen ages, society forces her to be more lady like, so she is forced to wear make up, be infatuated with romances, and stand in the shadows of males. She tried to keep her childish and boyish ways but society (the boys and girls in her school) ostracized her because she wasn't lady like so she was pressured to be someone shes not in order to be popular and liked by her friends.