Boys Don't Cry

To summarize the movie briefly Teena Brandon was a 21-year old woman whom impersonated a man. After getting herself into some trouble with the law as well as a brother of one of her “girlfriends” from home she quickly latches on to a new s

The most astonishing part of this movie was the interrogation that “Brandon” went through with the police officer after he had been raped. The police officer wanted to know why she hung out with boys and why she kissed other girls. He did not seem at all interested in catching the people that were being accused of rape! Pharr says that, “the word lesbian is still fully charged and carries with it the full threat of loss of power and privilege, the threat of being cut asunder, abandoned, and left outside of society’s protection.” (p. 395). For the same reason that the officer didn’t seem that interested in John and Tom’s alleged rape, is the same reason that they were not arrested before the took the life of Tenna Brandon!

et of welcoming people that she meets in a bar one night. Candace, John, Tom and Lana become Brandon’s new family in Fall Creek, Nebraska. Although Brandon seems to have made some new friends, they are not what someone would define as accepting or open-minded. John and Tom both possess very short tempers and had just recently gotten out of prison. The strangers seem to take to Brandon because she starts a fight with a man about three times her size the first time they meet her. The only problem is that they all believe that Teena is a man. Eventually all

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