... questions for the viewer to think on long after the credits roll. The comfortable boundaries of gender and sex are pushed to their limits. Watching this movie, you can feel yourself in each characters shoes, even when you don't agree with anything that character stands for. I"d like to give a brief ... Labels can be demeaning; they can come with a stigma. Thankfully this movie never resorts to those, instead showing how she feels. Viewers are almost forced to focus on the idea that sex and gender are not the same. Sex is only the biology of who you are, gender is the collective things y...

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... hair short, stuff a sock into her pants, passed as a man, renamed herself as Brandon Teena, and was later raped and murdered by her friends when her identity was discovered. The movie "Boys Don't Cry," narrates the true life story of Teena (AKA Brandon), which clearly shows that gender and sexual orientation are independent of biological sex. Transgendering and homosexuality are two ... concepts depicted in the movie that are not accepted in our society. Many times, these concepts will lead to oppression, blatant acts of hatred, violence and lack of support from society towards these mi...

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