tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19118742874806452802024-03-21T15:11:39.709-07:00Lions and Tigers and Queers, Oh My!Queer readings of kids' films that will either blow your mind or ruin your childhoodAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02179767490730835893noreply@blogger.comBlogger24125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1911874287480645280.post-75386686569767467512015-09-22T15:27:00.003-07:002015-09-22T15:27:47.605-07:00Inside Out<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span lang="EN-GB">Inside Out<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Film released 2015<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Directors: Pete Docter, Ronaldo Del Carmen<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Writers: Pete Docter, Ronaldo Del Carmen,
Meg LeFauve, Josh Cooley, and a couple other peeps<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Starring: Amy Poehler, Phyllis Smith,
Richard Kind, Bill Hader, Lewis Black, Mindy Kaling, Kaitlyn Dias<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Rated: PG<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB">SPOILER
WARNING! PROCEED AT YOUR OWN RISK! SERIOUSLY! ALL THE SPOILS!<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB">Grade:
5/5<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">I’m back! Did ya miss me? Well, I missed
you. Where else am I supposed to channel all of my suppressed inner queer child
feels? Speaking of feels (perfect segue?)…<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">let’s
take a big queer look at Pixar’s newest installment in their hopelessly lost
and miraculously found series: <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Inside Out</i>!</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">If you live in a box in the middle of
nowhere, then you probably don’t know what the movie is about. I’m here to help
all the poor queer misanthropes out there. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB">Our
story begins</span></b><span lang="EN-GB"> with Riley (Kaitlyn Dias), a happy little girl who
lives in Minnesota, loves hockey, her family, her friends, and lives a pretty
darn joyful tomboy life. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Cue the actual subject matter of the movie: Riley’s
inner emotional life, literally. Pixar introduces us to Riley’s emotions: Joy
(Amy Poehler), Sadness (Phyllis Smith), Fear (Bill Hader), Anger (Lewis Black),
and Disgust (Mindy Kaling). Joy is the ruler of Riley-land and she’s loving
life bossing around the other emotions and making sure Riley stays – you guessed
it – joyful. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">That is until Riley’s parents decide to uproot and move to San
Francisco for Dad’s new job with a startup. The move throws Riley’s emotions
totally out of whack and Sadness starts to challenge Joy’s chiefdom, which she
does not take sitting down. When Sadness touches a core memory (I would explain
this but it’s complicated and you should just watch the movie dumdum) and it
turns from a joyful memory to a sad memory about missing her old life in Minnesota,
chaos ensues leading to Joy and Sadness getting accidentally ejected from
headquarters and they end up between the shelves of Riley’s long term memories.
Riley is left without the ability to feel either Joy or Sadness and Anger,
Disgust, and Fear can’t hold down the fort. Joy and Sadness meet Riley’s old
imaginary friend, the awesome BingBong, and try their darnedest to get back to
headquarters before Riley runs away from home! </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Okay, whew, that’s the basic
plot. Let’s get into the queer stuff.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB">First!</span></b><span lang="EN-GB"> Major points for female representation! We have not one, not two,
but THREE female protagonists (depending on how you categorize protagonist in
this movie)! We’ve got Riley herself, Joy, AND Sadness all presenting as
female. This movie is only Pixar’s second with a female protagonist (<a href="http://lionstigersqueersohmy.blogspot.co.uk/2015/06/brave.html" target="_blank">Brave</a> was
the first, duh) and they’re going whole hog this time a-round. Despite most of
the story and writing team being almost entirely male (ugh, Pixar, get with the
program already), the female characters are complex, well-imagined, and all
around relatable depictions of women. You go Pixar!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB">Second.</span></b><span lang="EN-GB"> There’s been a lot of internet talk about how gender factors into
the movie. We get a sneak peak at some of the emotional inner life of the other
characters in the movie (primarily Mom and Dad, but there are a ton of others
too) and the genders of everyone’s five primary emotions seem to align with the
characters' genders, except for Riley’s. For Riley, Joy, Sadness, and
Disgust are female while Anger and Fear are both male. People have taken to the
internet to discuss what this means. Is Riley trans? Queer? Genderfluid? Genderqueer?
Non-binary? WHAT DOES THIS MEAN?!? Well, I hate to burst your hopeful little queer
bubble but here’s a quote on the topic from the one and only Mr. Director Pete
Docter, courtesy of the IMDB trivia page:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">When
asked about the genders of the emotions, </span><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Verdana;">Pete
Docter</span></span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;"> said, "It
was intuitive. It felt to me like Anger's very masculine, I don't know why ...
Sadness felt a little more feminine and </span><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Verdana; text-decoration: none;">Mindy
Kaling</span></span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;"> as Disgust felt
right ... with Mom and Dad, we skewed them all male and all female for a quick
read, because you have to understand where we are, which is a little phony but
hopefully people don't mind!"</span></span><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB">Womp
womp womp...</span></b><span lang="EN-GB">But I still think there is hope! Docter is basically saying that he only made everyone else's emotions one gender because of exposition...But I
think it’s actually way more nuanced than that, even if he doesn't know it. But I don't completely agree with the discussions happening
online either.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Disclaimer: This opinion is mine and mine alone as a cis gender woman who does not have a mental illness. Please feel free to chime in with your opinion if you disagree with the following theory. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><b><span lang="EN-GB">That said, here’s my take:</span></b></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">I have found that my gender identity is not at
all tied up in my emotional life. My emotions have a much stronger connection to my
gender <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">expression</i> rather than my identity.
I am and always will be a tomboy. I am happiest when I get to live comfortably
within that expression. I am unhappy when I’m forced out of that comfort zone
and, for example, am forced to wear a dress, skirt, or anything like that.
Gender identity and gender expression are two totally different things. I am a
woman but I tend to wear mens clothing. That doesn’t make me trans*, that makes
me a tomboy, as per my personal preference for that label. I am a female and I
am a tomboy. That identity and that expression are not contradictory or in
conflict, they actually compliment each other quite nicely. I think that the
genders of Riley’s emotions represent femininity vs masculinity instead of
female versus male. Riley’s emotions are personifications of concepts and
concepts inherently have no gender. They are actually genderless (so they are
actually, technically non-binary). But they <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">present
</i>as either feminine or masculine. Rather than her emotions representing
Riley’s gender identity, I think they are a manifestation of her gender
expression, aligning with her clearly identifiable tomboy proclivities. Riley
is a girl with a slightly masculine expression, that’s why 2/5 of her emotions
present as masculine. As for the other characters, their emotions’ gender
ratios align with their gender expressions. Mom dresses femininely and her
emotions are all female presenting; dad dresses masculinely and his emotions are
all male presenting. This idea applies to all the characters whose emotions are
shown, even the dog! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Okay, there’s a lot to unravel in there. I’m
gonna leave it at that for now cause I could write a thesis on that topic
alone. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB">Moving
on. </span></b><span lang="EN-GB">This is a big one: mental health. This movie is
basically a giant PSA for kids that growing up is hard and it’s okay to feel
your feelings, even when you are sad, or mad, or happy, or scared, or disgusted,
and that KIDS’ FEELINGS ARE LEGITIMATE. So often kids’ emotions are disregarded
because young people are just that, young. But young people are also <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">people</i> with rich inner emotional lives.
And because kids are also people with these huge inner emotional lives, they
also need to take care of their mental health, the same way adults should.
Riley can’t function properly or process the huge change that is going on in
her life because she can’t feel either Joy or Sadness. Both are equally
important. And Joy’s journey throughout the movie, coming to accept that Sadness
is a necessary part of Riley’s emotions is SO IMPORTANT. Everyone needs a good
cry every once in a while, am I right? This movie is putting mental health
front and center in an incredibly accessible way. I really hope this helps kids
who are depressed and have serious mental health issues identify what is
happening to them and get them to seek help, knowing that it’s okay to talk
openly about their feelings. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">And last but certainly not least, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">THEY MADE A TASTEFUL EXPLICIT GAY JOKE!</b>
I can’t remember the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">exact </i>quote but
Fear says something about being scared of bears attacking Riley, and the other
emotions are like, “there aren’t any bears in San Fransisco,” and Anger says
that he saw a bear walking down the street earlier and I almost died of shock/happiness/laughter.
This joke was 1) hilarious, 2) super casual and nbd, and 3) AN EXPLICIT GAY
JOKE IN THE MIDDLE OF A HUGELY GROSSING PIXAR MOVIE THAT MILLIONS OF KIDS ARE
SEEING AROUND THE WORLD! This. Is. Huge. And while the joke will most likely go
over most kids' heads, parents will certainly catch it and that’s enough for me.
One small step for gays, one giant leap for gay-kind.</span></div>
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</span></b><span lang="EN-GB">BingBong. He’s my hero. Also, his flying wagon is
powered by rainbows, which is just the best thing Pixar has ever thought up. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></b><span lang="EN-GB">Joy and Sadness. The perfect yin-yang. They’d make
a well-balanced couple, maybe?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB">Favorite
Moment: </span></b><span lang="EN-GB">I lol’ed so hard when Sadness, Joy, and
BingBong were in the abstract thought chamber. That was some seriously funny
intellectual humor and I’m a total sucker for nerdy stuff like that. I’m
really glad they put that in a kid’s film.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><a href="http://lionstigersqueersohmy.blogspot.co.uk/2015/05/harry-potter-and-sorcerers-stone.html">CLICK HERE TO READ ABOUT HARRY POTTER ANDTHE SORCERER’S (PHILOSOPHER’S) STONE!</a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Mk, let’s return to the wizarding world and
the second instalment of JK Rowling’s gift to humanity. God is a woman and her
name is JK Rowling.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">We’ve covered the queerness of Harry <i>literally </i>coming out of the closet, the
queerness of wizardry, the beginning of Hermione’s war against the patriarchy,
and the gayest gay of them all, you guessed it, Dumbledore, and now we need to
talk about a couple of things that come up in the second book that just make
the series that much queerer.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">First up, <b>Dobby and the house elves</b>. </span></div>
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biggest thing the movie leaves out is the genius of <b>SPEW</b>. For those of you plebeians
who are not in the know, SPEW stands for the Society for the Promotion of
Elfish Welfare and it begins Hermione’s single-handed pursuit to emancipate
house elves. SPEW has a (mostly) consistent presence throughout the series and
I’ve always been super disappointed that it got left on the cutting room floor
because it is seriously genius and it establishes Hermione as a passionate
activist. House elves are about as queer as you can get. They are essentially
an enslaved population, taken advantage of by wizards. So much queer oppression
going on. When Dobby meets Harry and he’s actually the first person <i>ever </i>to even say one nice thing to Dobby
and care about his wellbeing and all he does is politely offer him a seat, you
know there’s some hateful bigotry going on in the background of this poor
character’s life. I don’t think this one needs much more explaining; the
queerness here is pretty explicit. I mean, he wears a pillow case for goodness’s
sake.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Next, we really get a better sense of the
<b>Weasley’s economic status </b>in this book/movie. They’re a huge family squeezed
into this tiny house that barely fits all of them. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">They have to buy second hand
everything and they work hard for what they do have. But what’s important in
the depiction of their economic status is that, while it is sometimes a source
of shame for Ron, they are an incredibly happy family. Harry even envies them
and the life they lead. Mr. Weasley loves the work that he does and is
incredibly passionate and together, they persevere to make it work. Their
poverty rarely reveals itself as a set back. On the contrary, their family
becomes idyllic through Harry’s eyes. Queer points for the Weasleys!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Before I get to the big queer issue of the
book, I wanna talk about <b>Hagrid</b> for a little bit. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">We get a bit more of his backstory
in this book, although not all of it, but I want to talk about him anyway and
maybe reference some stuff that we learn about in other books. In <i>Chamber</i>, we learn that he was expelled
from Hogwarts as a teen because Tom Riddle (aka young Voldy) framed him for
being the heir of Slytherin and killing Moaning Myrtle. And he gets shipped off
to Azkaban in this book because they think he was the one who re-opened the
chamber. We don’t learn explicitly until book four that Hagrid is half-giant,
but the discrimination he faces in this book (and honestly in most of the
others) establishes his queer status before we understand the full extent of
his queer identity. I think it is important to acknowledge it here because of
the parallels it makes to ableism. Hagrid is often treated like a lower being
than the rest of the wizarding community. He’s looked down upon, called an “oaf,”
and generally faces a lot of demeaning bigotry. His half-giant status not only
establishes him as outside of pure blood wizards, but also within another
species category that is generally thought of a intellectually inferior to wizards.
There’s more to talk about once we get to <i>The
Goblet of Fire </i>and <i>The Order of The
Phoenix</i>, so I’ll save the rest till then. Just know that Hagrid is hella
queer. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">The big one in this instalment is the
beginning of the <b>pure blood versus muggle-born debacle</b>. This is where we first
hear the slur, “mudblood.” </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">And the whole Chamber of Secrets thing is laced with
near genocidal rhetoric. The heir of Slytherin is out and about again and on
the hunt for muggle-born blood. This pure blood/muggle-born clash basically
drives the plot of the entire series with Voldemort’s obsession with
essentially, purifying the entire wizarding world (cue the allusions to Hitler
and WWII). It’s the racial debate of the wizarding world, and its queerness is
overwhelming. Malfoy’s bullying of Hermione brings the issue into full focus
and we get to see the horror of the issue unravel through Harry’s eyes. Any
queer kid getting bullied at school can relate to Hermione’s experience with
Malfoy and her struggles with prejudice just because of who her parents are.
AND SHE’S STILL THE BEST WITCH IN HER CLASS! If that’s not overcoming adversity
then I don’t know what is. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">-<b>Lockhart is totally queer.</b> But he’s a
pretty crumby guy so let’s not talk about that. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">-I’ve always thought there was a bit of an
<b>undertone of mental heath</b> going on with Harry being about to hear the snake
through the walls and with Ginny and her dependence on Riddle’s journal. Not
quite sure what to make of it though. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">-<b>lol, Ron’s fear of spiders</b>. Not only is it
totally relatable, but it also subverts gender stereotypes. Ron would be
screaming like a little baby while Hermione swats at spiders in their kitchen. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><b>MVQ</b>: Dobby. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><b>OTP</b>: Still looking at me and Hermione…I
mean really, who doesn’t ship themselves with Hermione?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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with Harry’s smelly sock. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Wallace and Gromit: <i>A Grand Day Out </i>and <i>The Wrong Trousers</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Aardman Animations <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Released 1989 (<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">A Grand Day Out</i>), 1993 (<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Wrong
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<span lang="EN-GB">Starring: Peter Sallis<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Unrated<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><b>Today we’re going old school.</b> And British. We’re
looking at two of the original Wallace and Gromit shorts today: <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">A Grand Day Out</i>, and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Wrong Trousers</i>. I was going to watch
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">A Close Shave</i> too, but that short is basically
the reason why I don’t watch horror movies and while I’m supposedly an adult, I
couldn’t bring myself to watch it, it’s also the least gay of all the original shorts
and it’s my blog I can watch if I want to (or not, in this case).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">I loved these shorts as a kid. The charm of
the stop animation, the simplicity of the characters, their overwhelming Britishness,
and how totally gay they are make for some excellent 20-minute storytelling. <b>Wallace
and Gromit at are basically the English version of Bert and Ernie.</b> They are
domesticated male companions who share a love of cheese! You can’t get much
better than that. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><b>These two shorts chronicle their charming
inter-species relationship</b> (intersectionality points anyone? Inter-racial
metaphor maybe?), it’s ups and downs, and emotional twists and turns. Before we
get started, I want to mention this inter-species thing. I’m definitely not
talking about equating gayness and bestiality and that whole anti-gayness
arguement. There’s actually some interesting scholarship on fictional
human-animal relationships as metaphors in queer coming of age stories. Kathryn
Bond Stockton talks about girls and dogs (think movies like Lassie) as codified
lesbian relationships. So…there’s that.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Grand Day Out</b> </span></i><span lang="EN-GB">is the first ever Wallace and Gromit
short film and I couldn’t get enough of it as a kid. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">The story is simple. Wallace and Gromit are
trying to figure out where to go for the upcoming bank holiday (that’s a long
weekend for all you American dweebs out there, jk HAPPY almost FOURTH OF JULY!).
Wallace realizes they are out of cheese. OH THE HORROR! And he wants to go on a
cheese vacation! Cause, duh. They decide to build a rocket ship so they can
taste some delicious moon cheese, cause everyone knows the moon is made of
cheese. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">They get themselves to the moon (which apparently has oodles of
gravity) with Wallace’s inventing genius brain and sample its cheesy offerings. </span>But there’s a robot on the moon! And it really doesn’t want them to steal any
moon cheese. While they escape in their rocket ship, the robot tries to
stowaway, but it messes up while trying to keep them from going and it gets all
robot-y sad until it fashions itself a pair of metal skis from parts of the
rocket ship that got left behind and everyone is happy. Wallace and Gromit head home with their
cheese-y conquest.</div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">This first look at the brilliance of
Wallace and Gromit introduces us to their <b>charming dynamic</b>. They do everything
together and are the very definition of true companionship. They invent
together. They holiday together. They picnic on the moon together. And they
share an epic love of cheese. <b>#relationshipgoals </b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">If that’s not gay AF, then idk what is. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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with Wallace and Gromit’s morning routine full of funny Wallace contraptions
like the bed that turns into a slide and slips him straight into his chair at
the breakfast table where another contraption dresses him while he eats his
toast. The simple brilliance. I really wanted that machine as a kid. It would
have made mornings so much easier. And then it’s Gromit’s birthday! Wallace
presents him with a pair of electronic trousers he can wear and do cool things
in like walk on the ceiling. And then they get a new roommate? Still a bit iffy
on how that part happens, oh well. It’s a penguin! Yup. But it’s an <i>evil </i>penguin who takes over Gromit’s
room and basically ruins everything. The penguin traps Wallace in his own
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Gromit spies on the penguin and figures out that it’s
trying to steal diamonds from a museum! The penguin’s a jewel thief! And it’s
going to make Wallace steal the diamond while he’s wearing the trousers!
Penguin mayhem ensues and Gromit ends up saving the day! Yay Gromit! Boo
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and Gromit live in simple domestic bliss. Their routine is down pat. Gromit
knits while Wallace reads the morning paper. Ah, wedded bliss. I think it’s
fascinating (despite perpetuating gender roles) that Wallace and Gromit take on
these gendered stereotypes of married life, even though they are both male (and
supposedly in a non-romantic relationship). Any romantic parallels magnify when
the penguin comes into the picture. It’s totally mimics the break up narrative.
Gromit gets ousted from his room by the penguin, then gets kicked outside into
the dog house where he watches Wallace and the penguin have a nice candle-lit
dinner. Gromit packs up his things in a bandana, ties it to a stick (FYI, it is
very difficult to get this to work, my 5-year-old self can attest to it), picks
up a picture with him and Wallace, cries all the sad break up tears, and leaves
his home in the rain. </span></div>
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and makes up with Gromit and all is right with the world again. <b>They are OTP
through and through. </b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">The Princess Diaries<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Walt Disney Pictures<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Film released 2001<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Director: Gary Marshall<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Writer: Gina Wedkos<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Based on the books by Meg Cabot<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Starring: Julie Andrews, Anne Hathaway,
Hector Elizondo, Heather Matarazzo, Mandy Moore, that guy from Brink, Sandra
Oh!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Rated: G</span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB">Grade:
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<span lang="EN-GB">Not another TWEEN movie! Let’s take a queer
look at that old favorite, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Princess
Diaries</i>. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Can you believe this was Anne Hathaway’s
big film debut? Neither can I. ALSO JULIE ANDREWS FTW! Btw, did you know that
Whitney Houston was a producer on this? Cool, right?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Now that I’m done fangirling over the
powerhouse actors in this movie, let’s get on with it. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">First, let’s get a few things straight (wink
wink). If you were a tween during the late 90s/early 2000s, then you might have
been obsessed with the original books series (like me). </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">'Sup Meg Cabot</td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<span lang="EN-GB">There were a few things
that the movie didn’t get quite right that I want to point out quickly. Whether
or not they contribute to the movie’s queerness, eh idk, you can be the judge
of that. The two biggest things you need to know are 1) Mia’s dad isn’t dead,
he was just kind of an absent father until they had to tell her about the whole
Princess thing. Ultimate uncool dad move. And 2) the grandmother in the books
is actually a horrible human being that Mia hates and she has tattooed eyebrows
that gave me nightmares. Ugh. These changes make sense for the movie’s story
arc, but what I liked about the original books was Mia’s rebellious, fuck the
man, attitude, and she really loses that in the movie. Having her dad die instead
of just being absent puts a sentimentality and “excusable reason” on her
rebellion, which lessens Mia’s queerness. And the grandmother (if memory serves
me, I think she had to call her grandmere?) served as an antagonistic figure on
whom Mia could throw her frustrations. As much as I love Julie Andrews, the
conflict between traditional norms/the strictures of being royal and Mia wanting
to be a normal freaky teenager get diluted. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Anyway, on to the film. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Mia is so very queer. She and her bestie
Lily Moscovitz (the awesome and OUT Heather Matarazzo) are outsiders at their
high school. </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Who's that dude messing up our bestie pic?</td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<span lang="EN-GB">They look at the popular, uber-hetero, kids with admiration and
disgust; that particular mixture of feelings only present in the teenage mind
when you still gave two fucks about your popularity status (right?). Mia is
invisible and weird to her classmates. She pukes during her public speaking
class and gets laughed out the door. She’s awkward and clumsy, not to mention
the glasses and untameable hair. She’s invisible, crushing on
cool-guy-douchebag Josh from afar, wishing she wasn’t queer, and wishing for
the popular kids’ normalcy. It’s hard out there for a queer.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">But Mia’s got some things going for her.
She lives in an abandoned firehouse (LITERALLY THE COOLEST THING EVER) with her
artist mom whose idea of a night in is throwing darts at water balloons full of
paint, </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Take that patriarchy!</td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<span lang="EN-GB">and she works part time at a rock climbing place. Her life isn’t really
as bad as she makes it out to be. Despite her frustrations, her queer life is
actually pretty cool.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Then, everything changes. Julie Andrews
comes to town and tells her she’s next in line for the throne of Genovia. Oof. This
little queer girl is a bonafide princess. You can’t get much more normative and
traditional than a princess, no matter whether you are talking about fairytales
or IRL royalty. The whole movie ends up being about Mia’s identity and her
queerness battling the normative expectations closing in on her life. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Here are the two things I want to look at
with this. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">First, the big beauty transformation.
Hellooooooo Anne Hathaway.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">bow chika wow wow</td></tr>
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<span lang="EN-GB">What’s telling here is her reaction to the makeover.
It makes her super uncomfortable. She gets really defensive when Lily sees her
new ‘do. And when she gets to school she doesn’t want to show off her new look,
she hides it all under a hat. When someone finally steals the hat off her head,
her newfound normative beauty makes heads turn. People start to notice her, but
it’s not really what she wants. She doesn’t know what to do now that she’s no
longer invisible. She’s lost some of her queerness and she’s having a hard time
adjusting. She’s starting to conform to normative beauty standards and it feels
weird, unnatural even. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Next, her decision to become a princess
(after she tries to run away). I’m not so interested in the whole legacy,
father part of the storyline. I want to focus on how Mia eventually comes to
terms with her queerness and this new normative world she must navigate. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The defining moment here is when she smears
ice cream all over popular-girl Lana’s (Mandy Moore in her early 2000s prime) pristine
cheerleading outfit. Mia decides that, after the whole beach party/Josh fiasco,
there are parts of the normative world she doesn’t want to participate in. The
part that’s frivolous and fake and judgemental and basically just awful.
Instead (and after quite a bit of turmoil), she decides to take advantage of
the position she has been handed within the normative world. She decides to use
her queerness to infiltrate and invade that normative world. She decides to “care
about the other 7 billion people out there instead of just [her].” She decides
to be an advocate and voice for the people. She realizes how much power she has
access to and that she can use that power for good.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I think this is an incredible model for how
those with enormous privilege should use their voices to lift up those 7
billion+ people who do not have the same power/resources/rights/etc. You go
girl!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">As you wish, Julie Andrews</td></tr>
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<span lang="EN-GB">MVQ: Mia’s mom! She’s the coolest. I mean
the paint-balloon thing! The firehouse! Genius.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">OTP: Lily and Mia. Does a ship name for
them exist? Mily? Lia?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">The Little Mermaid<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Disney Animation<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Film released 1989<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Directors: Ron Clements & John Musker<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Writers: John Musker & Ron Clements<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Based on the fairytale by Hans Christian Andersen</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Music & Lyrics: Alan Menken & Howard Ashman<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Starring: Jodi Benson, Pat Carroll, Samuel E Wright, Kenneth Mars<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Rated: G<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB">Grade:
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<span lang="EN-GB">We’re back to the classics today!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Let’s dive into the deep with this one. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">First, we’ve got the walking and talking
human world with Prince Eric and his regal cohorts. Then, we’ve got the
swimming and fishies of the underwater world, complete with trident.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Queer vs norm is always difficult when we
are dealing with two worlds because the main character usually transitions from
one world to another. Let’s start at the beginning with Ariel. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Evidence of Ariel’s queerness lies in her
love for Eric (it’s kind of creepy stalker love, but oh well), Trident’s
reaction to it, and finally Ursula. Let’s break it down.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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is a total misfit</b> amongst her royal mermaid family. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She’s late for her singing debut, she doesn’t
hang out with her fellow mer-teens. She’s also a total hoarder. But most of
all, she wants to be where the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">people </i>are.
Not <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">mer-</i>people. People-people. She
dreams of a place completely out of her reach, outside of her world. She dreams
of a home for her queerness. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b>“Part of
Your World” is Ariel’s ode to her queerness</b> and her longing for a place where
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I whip my hair back and forth</td></tr>
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<span lang="EN-GB">It reminds me of the
period in my life where I was out to myself and started exploring my queerness,
but I was still hiding my <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">L Word </i>Netflix
history and hadn’t really come out yet. I collected gay culture, researched,
and read anything Google would point me to on “how to be a lesbian,” but I wasn’t
actually a part of that world yet. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><u>Side note</u>: I wonder about the implications
of a trans* interpretation here, of a girl who grows up feeling like she is
somehow in the wrong body; that she should have legs instead of a fin….interesting.
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This little piggy went to the gay bar...</td></tr>
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<span lang="EN-GB">And <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">major
</i>points to Ariel for taking up the hero’s mantle and<b> saving Prince Eric</b>, her
damsel in distress. At first I thought this was really subversive and cool, but
taking another look at it, Disney is mostly just abiding by ancient mermaid
mythology where the mermaid saves the drowning human-dude. Well, points for
sticking to a vaguely feminist history of mythology? <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Lose some weight, why dontcha?</td></tr>
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<span lang="EN-GB">On to <b>dear old dad</b>. When King Trident finds
out about her secret human love and her collection of bits and bobs and
thingamawhatsits, he <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">flips his shit</i>.
His reaction to Ariel’s forbidden love (sound familiar) represents old school
homophobic ideals that are still very real. This mentality gets out kids kicked
out on the street, or in Ariel’s case, left out at sea. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">And who comes to save her? <b>Ursula. Or, The
Drag Mother Supreme</b>. Did you know that Ursula’s character design was modeled off
of the noted drag queen Divine?!? Cool, right? </span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Weeeeerk</td></tr>
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<span lang="EN-GB">But, she’s <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">another</i> queer villain. Ugh. Again? Disney? I’m getting pretty tired
of this trope. At least she has a kickass song? But what’s interesting about
her very clear queerness in her animation is that she facilitates Ariel’s transition
from the underwater world to the human world. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Ursula acts as a kind of queer guide. While
she fulfills Ariel’s queer wish (within the underwater world) to get rid of her
fins in lieu of legs, she forces Ariel to maintain a queer status (in the human
world) by taking her voice. Ariel’s differently-abled-ness (and obvious
cultural naivety) keep her queer. And that’s all Ursula’s doing. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">But, despite Ariel’s queerness, <b>her
character just completely falls flat in the second half of the movie.</b> </span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">My bow is as big as my face...</td></tr>
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<span lang="EN-GB">She loses
all her agency (not that she had tons to begin with) and drive and the whole
thing turns into a bitch fest between her and Ursula as her human alter-ego and
the movie gets way less interesting and a little emotionally scarring between
the lack of consent in “Kiss The Girl” and Ursula turning into a ship-wrecking
monster.<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">But <b>Sebastian always manages to keep it
real.</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">THE HILLS ARE ALIVE</td></tr>
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<span lang="EN-GB">MVQ: First half of the movie Ursula, not human-Ursula
or monster-Ursula. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">OTP: Sebastian and the French cook. It’s
the classic he’s-mean-to-you-because-he-has-a-crush-on-you schoolyard scenario.
Except the stakes are a little bit higher.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02179767490730835893noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1911874287480645280.post-12028388893527834042015-06-05T06:10:00.000-07:002015-06-05T06:10:02.905-07:00ACTUAL REPRESENTATION: Steven Universe<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Let's shake things up a bit, shall we.<br />
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I'm gonna mix up the schedule a bit and once a month I'm gonna do a post about <i>actual </i>LGBTQ+ representation in kids' media. Honestly, I wish I could do it more often, but there just isn't enough material to cover :( Maybe one day...<br />
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As you may have caught on, <b>a lot of what I've been talking about here is made up mostly from my imagination</b>. The queer representation I talk about in the films/tv shows/books/whatever for kids isn't <i>real</i>. Because this kind of representation barely exists, I decided to create it for myself.<br />
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But the <b>times they are a-changin' </b>(albeit slowly). And there is <i>some </i>LGBTQ+ representation out there for young people. AND I WANNA TALK ABOUT IT!<br />
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For my inaugural Actual Representation post, I wanna talk about my favorite tv show right now: <b><i>STEVEN UNIVERSE</i></b>!<br />
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It's on Cartoon Network, created by Rebecca Sugar (CN's <i>first ever female creator!</i>) and it's awesome. Click my face to learn more about the show and it's awesome LGBTQ+ representation in kids' media (you should also subscribe to my <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCpySgXBpE9-d_x0CFm5Ip7g" target="_blank">YouTube Channel</a>).<br />
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<b>This moment is seriously ground-breaking! </b>The show is already so queer in its representation of women as positive role models, and alternative family structures (plus they're aliens and Steven is half alien and that definitely sounds non-normative to me) that throwing Ruby and Sapphire's relationship into the mix is just the gem on top of a perfect banana split. </div>
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What's cool about <i>Steven Universe</i> and Garnet's story is that while Ruby and Sapphire's romantic relationship has been confirmed by the creators, <b>their relationship is totally out in the open</b>. They are clearly and explicitly in a strong, stable, romantic relationship and it's NBD. There is no shame from the series itself or the characters about the relationship. Shows like <i>Adventure Time </i>and <i>The Legend of Korra</i> hint at romantic same-sex relationships within the cartoons themselves (Bubbline and Korrassami) but they've only been revealed (or made canon) by the creators. I'm super skeptical of shows doing this because how many kids do you know watch these shows and immediately Google whether the creators have said if those characters are in same-sex relationships? Maybe I'm wrong but I think it unlikely, as internet-savvy as kids might be these days. </div>
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<b>What do you think about Steven Universe and its LGBTQ+ representation for kids? </b>I can't wait for the show to come off hiatus and for Steven to officially meet Ruby and Sapphire and for the characters (not the creators) to talk about the relationship.<br />
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ALSO, I've started contributing to <b><a href="https://vproud.tv/conversation/3220/drawing-outside-the-gender-lines-is-rebecca-sugar-s-steven-universe-paving-the-way-for-lgbtq-representation-for-kids?utm_source=LA060115&utm_medium=Contributor&utm_campaign=StevenUniverse">VProud.tv</a> </b>(an awesome new troll-free video platform started by former YouTube/Google Exec Karen Cahn that's for women, by women, and aims to start honest conversations on the internet!) and you can join the conversation I've started about Steven Universe there. Ok, plugging done.<br />
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that?!? <b>Pixar’s first and only</b> (up until this summer’s release of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Inside Out</i>) <b>female-led film</b>. I love you
Pixar, but you really need to get better with the whole representation thing…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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other people have to say about this one. I wish it was my favourite Pixar
movie, truly I do. But, it’s just not. That’s not to say that it’s a bad movie.
By all standards, it’s a good movie. The animation is gorgeous (as always) </span></div>
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Merida is such a rebellious bad-ass. </span>But it’s not great. And I don’t expect
anything less than greatness (in terms of storytelling) from Pixar. <b>It’s good,
but it’s not as good as you want it to be.</b> I’ve been trying to pin point why I
feel this way, and I’ve maybe found an answer. Let’s start at the beginning.</div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><b>I <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">love
</i>the first part of this movie.</b> It’s super feminist and interesting and queer and breaks all kinds of stereotypes. You’ve got this mother/daughter thing, dealing
with the old versus the new. Merida is this adventurous, tomboy teen (although
I wish she didn’t always have to wear dresses, that would have bothered me as a
kid) who goes around shooting stuff with her bow and arrow, climbing mountains
on her horse, drinking from the waterfall of fire, and generally kicking major
ass. </span></div>
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although she definitely has her own moments of queerness. Here’s where they differ:
Merida is all about freedom and adventure and expressing herself with her curly
ginger locks blowing in the gales, while her mother channels those same impulses
through the strictures of her tradition. She adheres to the normative code of what
princesses and queens should and should not do and tries to confine Merida to
those rules. Momma queen is able to take those rules in stride and totally
dominate within that world. <b>The mother/daughter feud that springs from their
old versus new ways is the common struggle of the generations</b>, particularly
between generations of activists. Think Act Up Fight AIDS and their aggressive
campaigns versus today’s Marriage Equality movement which wages its battle
through politics and policy pushing. It’s not a perfect parallel, but I think
you get the idea.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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tournament thing</b>. I really love the visual metaphor here of her hair getting
covered up by that weird hood thing she has to wear with her confining fancy
dress, and she keeps pulling one tiny ringlet of ginger curl out from under it
even though her mother keeps tucking it back. Brava, Pixar. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Strong metaphor for
Merida’s personal expression and individuality. The tournament itself is your
typical patriarchal BS, but then Merida wins her own hand through a sneaky
loophole and some insane archery skills. WHICH IS SO AWESOME AND FEMINIST AND I
WISH THIS MOVIE CAME OUT WHEN I WAS A KID!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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find the Will of the Whisps (magic stuff) to get her to understand where she is
coming from. And then she accidentally turns her mom into a bear…While she does
visit a witch-ish character, that just doesn’t really make up for how much I
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think they introduced the magical aspects of the world very well. And they
completely drop the really interesting feminist/queer stuff in lieu of this bear-transforming
thing that happens. <b>The plot had so much potential!</b> And they just drop it all
because they want to do this weird mother/daughter oops I turned you into a
bear and now we need to undo the thing that I did so you can be human again
plot. Ugh, boring. Do any Pixar movies even explore father/son relationships?
No, I don’t think so. (Well, they kind of do in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Finding Nemo</i> but that still manages to be an awesome adventure
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Viking film with a male protagonist, he would have been going on adventures and
doing cool Viking stuff, not turning his mom into a bear and then trying to
undo that mistake. That’s probably why <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><a href="http://lionstigersqueersohmy.blogspot.co.uk/2015/05/how-to-train-your-dragon.html" target="_blank">How To Train Your Dragon</a> </i>is the better Viking movie. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Merida runs away from home after the tournament to fight dragons (or bears,
whatever) and and see the world and do everything a boy can – skipping all the
bear-transforming nonsense and actually meeting people on her travels and
finding out what it is like to be an independent woman in this world and making
some self-discoveries along the way - and then when she gets herself in too
much of a pickle, her mom would show up to save the day and reveal herself as
the bad ass she truly is and female empowerment and bridging the generations
and YAY. It would end the same way, with the marriage thing chucked out the
window and Merida would let her hair fly free as she rides with her newly liberated
momma by her side. That would have been an epic movie. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Kiki’s Delivery Service</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Studio Ghibli (Walt Disney Home Video)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Film released 1989 (Rereleased by Disney in
1998)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Director: Hayao Miyazaki<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Writer: Hayao Miyazaki<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Based on the book by Eiko Kadono<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Starring: Kirsten Dunst, Debbie Reynolds,
Phil Hartman, Matthew Lawrence, and lots of Japanese voice actors (for the
Japanese version, obvi)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Rated: G<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b>Grade: 4.5/5 (only because there are no openly LGBTQ characters)<o:p></o:p></b><br />
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<span lang="EN-GB">We’re going to JAPAN this week!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><b>Miyazaki</b> is HANDS DOWN one of the best
animated storytellers of our time. Period. While I love <i>Spirited Away</i> and fell back in love with him with <i>Howl’s Moving Castle</i>, <i>Kiki</i> will always hold a special place in
my heart as my childhood favourite. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I'll have what he's having</td></tr>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Confession: Before last night, I hadn’t
watched this movie in eons. And boy was I missing out. </span><br />
<span lang="EN-GB"><b>This movie is a feminist
<i>masterpiece</i></b>. It’s one
of those hidden gems, buried under years of watching male-driven animated
features, but I am here to resurrect your worn VHS of yesteryear. Press stop, rewind, wait for an hour, annnnnnd let’s
play!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><b>Quick recap</b> for those who forgot the plot
(like me a mere 24 hours ago). For those of you who have yet to discover this
glorious piece of Japanese cinema GET ON THAT SHIT! If I could find it on the
internet, so can you.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">We start by meeting Kiki, our thirteen
year-old <i>female </i>protagonist (how many
times do I get to say that? Too few, that’s how many) who is a witch, which is
a totally normal thing in this world! Here, witches leave home to train for a year
in a foreign city on their thirteenth birthday. So Kiki jets off on her mom’s
broom with her best sassy feline friend, Jiji. They find a pretty coastal city
(the animation was inspired by a bunch of European cities like
Stockholm, Lisbon, Paris, and Milan) where they are initially put off by big
city life. They eventually find a friendly pregnant woman, Osono, who let’s
them stay in her spare attic room in return for keeping an eye on the shop and then Kiki decides to start her own delivery service! She basically just flies around
on her broom like a one-woman postal service, making lots of friends along the
way. The film follows the trials and tribulations of a young witch just trying
to find her place in the world. And the animation is gorgeous, btw.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I am Kiki! Watch me flyyyyyy!</td></tr>
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<span lang="EN-GB">First, let’s talk about how <b>the characters
in the film are basically ALL women</b>. There are only four. I REPEAT ONLY FOUR!
Recurring male characters. ONE OF THEM IS A CAT AND ANOTHER BARELY SPEAKS! Holy
guacamole. No wonder I liked this movie as a closeted seven year-old. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Next, <b>Kiki is a witch</b>! I’ve <a href="http://lionstigersqueersohmy.blogspot.co.uk/2015/03/snow-white-and-seven-little-people.html" target="_blank">already talked a bit about</a> how entangled witches are in lesbian cultural symbols, history, the
whole she-bang (did you enjoy that pun as much as I did? Maybe not…moving on). Modern
example: Willow in Joss Whedon’s <i>Buffy
the Vampire Slayer</i>, historical example: all that horrible stuff that went
down in Salem, Mass way back when (and all the witch burning in Europe). Maybe I'll do a separate post on that...<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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are in a world of witches. Kiki’s a burgeoning witch, her mom is a witch who
whips up a damn good potion, and witch traditions are well-known facts.
Being a witch who does witchy things is totally <i>normal</i>. But then Kiki takes off and leaves home, she finds a place
where she is the only witch. Being a witch isn’t so normal anymore. She has to
adjust to her newfound isolation. What interests me is the witch cultural adage
here that this year of training (read: isolation) is a necessary part of
becoming a full-fledged witch. (How many times can I say witch in one post?) When I think of someone who must undergo a year
of training for whatever skill they are trying to cultivate, the narrative is
that they go off to train <i>with </i>someone,
usually an older and wiser mentor figure. But not in Kiki’s world. Her teacher
is her isolation. Her teacher is her queerness in an unfamiliar world. She must
learn to survive and thrive as the only one of her kind. And boy does she
struggle, but she comes out stronger for it. How fucking prolific is that?<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<b>THIRTEEN YEAR-OLD GIRL is allowed to leave home by herself for a full year</b>.
Now, this is just totally unheard of in our modern world. Young people are
rarely given any kind of agency over their own lives, let alone a young girl. It’s
refreshing to see a young strong willed and totally independent young person
take control over her life and thrive. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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own delivery business and she makes money doing it! That’s a huge feat in
itself. And the fact that young girls can watch <i>another young girl</i> take the initiative and start her own relatively
profitable business is HUGE. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Now here comes the <b>lesbian speculation</b> (you
knew it was coming). Kiki meets a lot of interesting people on her deliveries.
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<span lang="EN-GB">There are the <b>two older women</b> who live in a fancy
house. The house’s owner, only known as <b>Madame</b>, calls on Kiki’s services to
deliver a herring pie (I guess that’s a thing?) to her niece for her birthday.
Madame lives with <b>her “friend” Barsa</b> who runs around helping them make the pie
and the reason for her presence is never discussed. I guess you’re
supposed to think she’s a maid of some sort? All I know is that they are definitely
big ‘ol homos. Dispute me, I dare ya. These two are lovely little old ladies
living out their days together in their big fancy house away from judgmental prying
eyes. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">And there’s <b>Ursula</b>, the kick-ass artist who
lives with the crows (yeah, she’s a bird lady) in the middle of the forest who
ends up becoming a close friend to Kiki and gives her important advice when she’s
down in the dumps and (spoilers!) loses her flying powers for a hot sec. Ursula
is the coolest. And rewatching the movie now, it is refreshing to see a
representation of a young <i>queer </i>twentysomething
being a friend to her young compatriot. Ursula lives alone in the wilderness
with no man in sight. She’s a free artistic spirit in touch with nature. And she’s
not afraid to talk about her struggles, both personal and artistic. She tells
Kiki about her art and her self-doubt and reveals her complexities as another
vulnerable and complicated woman. What a good role model. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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about the boys in the movie. <b>The <i>mere four</i>
male representations</b> include: a cat, Osono’s (the pregnant baker’s) muscley
husband who barely speaks and pretty much just makes bread the whole movie,
Kiki’s father who is a lovely human who is only in the first scene and the
epilogue, and Kiki’s “romantic” interest (they’re only thirteen so he’s more of
a friend interest), Tombo, whose advances she totally brushes off. Although his
relentless pursuit of Kiki is a little creepy, he actually ends up being a good
friend to her, he’s got these cute little glasses (I’ll always dole out some
extra points for my fellow glasses-wearers), and <i>he’s the damsel in distress during the climactic moment of the movie! </i>Kiki
pulls a superhero move and saves his life, literally catching him mid-air as he
falls to his death from a rogue blimp. Pause to appreciate the brilliant gender
role reversal. All hail Miyazaki, the secret feminist genius. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><b>Fun fact courtesy of IMDB</b>: The film takes
place in an alternate reality version of the 1950s Europe where WWI and WWII
never happened! Talk about utopic!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><b>MVQ</b>: Osono, the pregnant baker, is the
story’s unsung hero, supporting Kiki and her business ventures, taking care of
her when she’s sick, and putting a roof over her head. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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street who frequents the bakery. My theory is that they had a nasty breakup over
Ursula’s need to move to the forest to commune with nature and the pretty lady
didn’t want to sacrifice her career in fashion. Just a theory. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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How To Train Your Dragon<o:p></o:p><br />
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<span lang="EN-GB">DreamWorks Animation<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Film released 2010<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Director: Dean DeBlois and Chris Sanders<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Writer: William Davies, Dean DeBlois, and
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<span lang="EN-GB">Based on the book by Cressida Cowell<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Starring: Jay Baruchel, Gerard Butler,
Craig Ferguson, America Ferrera, Jonah Hill, Kristen Wiig, and David Tennant (Who
knew?)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Mk. This one is another story of the queer “other.”
There are lots of kids’ movies that take on this trope, some good, some bad,
but this one is particularly intriguing when it comes to breaking down gender
roles and femininity versus masculinity. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">WHAM! Right off the bat: alternative family
structure (which gets <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">even more </i>interesting
in the sequel, but that’s for another day). Our protagonist Hiccup (poor little
Viking, seriously, they had to name him Hiccup?) has been raised by his giant
Viking father his whole life with no mother in sight. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Hiccup’s dad is the leader of the Vikings
and a celebrated dragon hunter. He’s a giant dude. Hiccup on the other hand is
a scrawny little boy. He can’t hold an axe, let alone kill any dragons. He’s
basically the laughing stock of the whole Viking village because of this. Here’s
where we get queer. Hiccup is not the Viking (read: man) he should be. His
father tells him, “stop being all of you.” That’s harsh, bro. And “from the
time he was born, he was different.” Sounds queer to me. Hiccup has to deal
with <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">toxic ideas of masculinity </i>and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">gender role constructs</i>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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the ideals of masculinity placed on him by his environment, but he just can’t.
He’s labelled inadequate. But he does his best to compensate with his
creativity! He invents things! He wants to prove himself within the confinement
of the given environment (ie the norm): manly Viking men kill dragons.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But when he finally encounters the Night Fury
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Excalibur!</td></tr>
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<span lang="EN-GB">He’s just not that kind of
Viking. Hiccup starts to think outside the box, outside the construct. This is
Hiccup’s queer aha! moment. He realizes that he cannot conform to the normative
mode of manly Viking men who kill dragons. He accepts himself as a tiny Viking
boy who <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">trains</i> dragons. He finds his
success outside the norm, within his queerness. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Lil' Bub Toothless</td></tr>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Hiccup is not the only one who is working
outside the norm. We find this in the dragon Toothless, too. Toothless has
learned through his/her (I don’t actually think Toothless gets gendered in the
movie, not sure though. BUT HOW COOL IS THAT!?!) experience and encounters with
humans, that it’s a kill or be killed world out there. Toothless also actively
struggles with this construct, this norm. They become friends when they both
accept the queer notion that they <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">don’t
have to kill each other. </i>Their friendship proves that PEOPLE CAN CHANGE! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Don't send a boy to do a girl's job</td></tr>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Also, Astrid is a total feminist fierce
independent lady. Hiccup’s crush on her is awesome for young boys to see a male
character infatuated with a positive female role model. And she’s obviously
good for young girls watching the movie.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">What’s the take away on this one?
Masculinity is more complicated than manly Viking men who kill dragons versus
tiny Viking boys who train dragons. And it’s good to question social norms
because you might just make a friend out of it </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Wingdings; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-char-type: symbol; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-char-type: symbol; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;">J</span></span><span lang="EN-GB"> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">MVQ: Toothless. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">OTP: Astrid and the girl twin. Why not?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Favorite Moment: This:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Sorry this was a short one, I’m totally
bogged down with work for my MA. Next post is gonna be up on Tuesday instead of
Wednesday. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">ALSO ALSO ALSO! I’m taking requests! Shoot
me an email at <a href="mailto:thelamerest@gmail.com">thelamerest@gmail.com</a>
and I’ll add it to the list!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">The Sisterhood of The Traveling Pants</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Warner Bros.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Film released 2005<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Starring: Amber Tamblyn, Alexis Bledel,
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<span lang="EN-GB">Every once in a while I’m gonna do a post
about TWEEN ENTERTAINMENT! Let’s kick off the first one with a little <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Sisterhood of The Traveling Pants.<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">I loved this movie as I was growing up (I
even read the books, which are about as decent as tween books get). Why?
BECAUSE IT FEATURES 4! Yes, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">4</b>!
FEMALE PROTAGONISTS who have a deep, meaningful friendship. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Some queer topics covered in the movie
include positive female friendships (duh), alternative family structures,
mental health issues and suicide, consent, privilege, body positivity, and
able-ism stigmas. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Let’s get cracking.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">First, there’s the premise: 4 diverse young
female friends can all fit into the same pair of jeans. In the scene where they
try them on, Carmen makes a big deal out of her being the biggest of the girls
and puts them on to prove that there is no way they’ll fit her as she slips
them on with no struggle. So. Much. Body positivity! This scene says that what
ever your body type, you are perfect for these jeans. The movie’s metaphor for
the bonds of friendship literally and figuratively embraces each girl’s
differences. Man. This movie was kinda ahead of its time.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">The girls start off as typical female
tropes: there’s the quite artistic one, the loud Hispanic writer, the sardonic
filmmaking rebel, and the beautiful blonde athlete. But we learn that these
girls are far more than their stereotypes suggest. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Let’s talk about the girls individually. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">First, Lena: the quiet artistic one. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">She’s
probably the least queer (read: interesting) of them all. She gets the classic
love story where she falls for the foreign Greek charmer (God the actor’s
accent is horrible) despite her shy nature. Her storyline follows her trip to
visit her Greek family on the beautiful island Santorini (I mostly watch her
sections for the landscape, tbh) and the love story. As she falls for Kostos
she discovers her love for drawing and metaphorically (and literally, seeing as
this is a tween movie, subtlety is not within genre) lets her hair down. He
totally awakens her sexuality, which is seriously empowering, watching her take
control of her body as a young woman is invigorating. Her trip to Greece
reminds me of the camps I would go to during the summers in high school where I
could discover who I was outside the comfort zone of my family and school. That’s
where I figured out I was gay. That’s where Lena figured out she is an artist,
and a proud woman.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Second, Tibby: the sarcastic filmmaking rebel. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Personally, </span>I always thought
she was gay. Her relationship with Brian, the geeky video game kid, always felt
like an after thought. I also love her sassy sarcastic humour that I can
totally relate to, so maybe I’m projecting, but that’s pretty much all this
blog is…Anyway, her story is a different kind of love story. Tibby’s story is
about Bailey, my absolute favourite character. The headstrong girl next door,
wise beyond her years, who we find out is dying of cancer. It’s heavy <i>heavy </i>stuff. But it’s one of the most
honest portrayals of a terminally ill young person before John Green’s <i>The Fault in Our Stars</i> finally came
around. And I’d say being a kid with cancer totally qualifies as a queerness
outside of the healthy norm. Tibby’s relationship with Bailey changes her for
the better and not just in a cheesy way. Bailey teaches her true compassion.
She makes Tibby a better artist and a better human as they go about their days
interviewing people with seemingly weird and mundane lives who turn out to have
fascinating stories and passions. We could all stand to learn something from
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<span lang="EN-GB">Next, Bridget. The blonde athlete. And total tomboy femme. </span></div>
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just take a moment to appreciate how damn beautiful Blake Lively is. Ok? Done?
I’ll give you another minute. Man, did I have a crush on Bridget. And she has
the most complex story by far. She’s the beautiful extroverted blonde athlete whose
life seems perfect from the outside, but she’s got some <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">serious</i> demons. We find out pretty early on that her mother
committed suicide (while it’s not said explicitly, it’s heavily implied) and
suffered from what the book outlines as Bipolar Disorder. Bridget’s storyline opens
up an interesting discussion of mental health and dealing with grief. She
struggles to understand what her mother went through, why she killed herself, and
if she is like her mother. This movie gets so many points for the mental health
discussion, which movies for tweens rarely explore, especially in the early
2000s. We can also look at her relationship with Eric, the older counsellor she
has a fling with at soccer camp and loses her virginity to. Oh man. This is <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">complex</i>. First of all, she explicitly
tells him that she is 17, and he’s in college, so I’m pretty sure that’s
illegal statutory rape… The whole relationship is forbidden from the start, but
she pursues him anyway. And when they finally hook up, she starts a downward
depression-riddled spiral. There’s a nice opportunity for a discussion about
consent here which the story doesn’t really take up, which is definitely an oversight,
but it at least acknowledges the fallout and the emotional consequences Bridget
faces when she leaves soccer camp. I think they actually start a serious
relationship in the books, or something like that, but don’t quote me on that. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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family structure going on. Her white father left her mother when she
was young and this summer she’s going to live with him for a month. She finds
that he’s shacked up with a pretty blonde white woman and her porcelain son and
daughter. Here’s our complicated depiction of class, race, and privilege: queer
versus norm. This storyline is the most direct conflict between these two
worlds. Carmen feels completely out of place in her dad’s new whitewashed world
that she runs away from her embarrassing bridesmaid dress fitting and throws a
rock at her dad’s window when she sees them all sitting down to a nice dinner
like she never even ran off. She tells her dad that he was a dick for not
telling her about his fiancé (true), that it felt like he was erasing her from
his life, and that he is embarrassed by his half-Hispanic daughter and her
mother. This phone confrontation is totally heart-wrenching. The end of the
film (spoilers!) takes us to her dad’s wedding where she swallows her pride and
publicly joins him and his fiancé at the altar as her dad brings her into his
new family. I don’t know what that says exactly about race and class and
privilege and all that, but Carmen’s story opens up a dialogue about mixed race
families, the racial stigmas, complications, and personal struggles that come
along with it. I honestly don’t know if another narrative like this exists
because this topic can be unsettling and the film really doesn’t shy away from
the plot in the books (if my memory is at all reliable). <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">All in all, powerful movie about positive
female friendships and there’s so much complex queerness that it’s almost
overwhelming. It covers so many bases in each of the girls’ storylines that
there’s a little queerness for everyone. I just wish one of them had a coming
out story. That would have been the cherry on top.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02179767490730835893noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1911874287480645280.post-63840093783100402952015-05-02T17:35:00.003-07:002015-05-02T17:35:51.424-07:00Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span lang="EN-GB">Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone
(Harry Potter and the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Philosopher’s </i>Stone,
for the Brits)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Bloomsbury (UK) & Scholastic (US)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Book released 26 June 1997 (UK) & 1
September 1998 (US)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Written by JK Rowling<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Warner Bros.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Film released 2001<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Director: Chris Columbus<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Writer: Steve Kloves<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Starring: Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint,
Emma Watson, Richard Harris, every British actor ever<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Rated: PG<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b>Grade: 5/5</b></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><o:p><br /></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">I, like many a Millennial, grew up on Harry
Potter. I went to midnight showings. I re-read the books over and over and over
and over again until my copy of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The
Goblet of Fire</i> broke into sections that I would take to school with me to
re-read again between classes. To a queer ten-year-old bespectacled me, his
distinctive frames made my slight blindness seem cool for a change. To this
day, I am still constantly re-reading. I’ve lost count. You could say I treat
Harry Potter books like a devout Christian treats their bible. No hyperbole. Diving
into the world of Witchcraft and Wizardry will never get old for me. I’m still
waiting for that letter from Hogwarts. I think going to grad school in London
was my way of attempting to fulfil that fantasy. I got as close as I probably
could to that dream at the studio tour. I cried. It was beautiful. I’m a sucker
for nostalgia, if you couldn’t tell from the fact that I’ve been watching two
kids movies a week for the past few months…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">But enough about me. LET’S GET TO HARRY
POTTER!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">The first one is by far the queerest of
them all. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">HARRY LITERALLY LIVES IN A CLOSET HIS
ENTIRE CHILDHOOD! <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Let me repeat: <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">he lives in the closet</i>. Got it? Good. (Okay, yes technically it's a "cupboard" but that's basically a closet, right?)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Oh woe is me</td></tr>
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<span lang="EN-GB">The Dursleys are the definition of the
patriarchy/norm. First off, they keep Harry in the closet. And there is some
intense oppression going on here (alongside the child abuse and class
commentary). Dudley complains about numbers of presents in the double digits as
Harry eye rolls behind him while being sure not to burn his precious birthday
breakfast sausages. The Dursleys abuse and mistreat Harry because he is a
wizard. He is not their definition of “normal.” They abuse and oppress and hide
him in a closet because he is queer. My most vivid memory of my mom reading the
first book to me was Hagrid’s pounding on the door to the cottage in the middle
of the lake where the Dursleys and Harry went to hide from the onslaught of Dumbledore’s
letters. That knock meant Harry’s saviour had come at last. “You’re a wizard, ‘Arry.”
The four magic words. Might as well be: “You’re a queer, ‘Arry.” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I AM THE ONE WHO KNOCKS</td></tr>
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<span lang="EN-GB">WIZARDS ARE QUEER! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">JK Rowling is a genius (duh). She’s spread
the queer message to billions of kids all over the world, and the patriarchy
never saw it coming. Who would suspect a boy wizard, right? <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Harry goes on his journey of queer discovery
with Hagrid, learning the ways of the wizards and their whole underground world. </span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I will never look at a stick the same way again</td></tr>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Finally he’s found a place where he fits in and is even <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">famous</i>. What?!? Harry’s fame takes on a life of its own throughout
the series but in the first book, it serves as validation of all the hurt he
went through at the Dursley’s hands. Talk about sticking it to the man. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s the ultimate coming out party. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The whole wizarding world knows his name. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Then he goes off to Hogwarts. And he meets
Hermione on the Hogwarts Express. She was definitely my first feminist icon. If
you haven’t seen this awesome Buzzfeed video yet, click it now. Hermione is a
boss ass witch. She taught me that if I knew the answer to a question in class,
I should raise my damn hand and use my brain. That girls aren’t just supposed
to be princesses, which is what every other kids’ story shoves down girls’
throats. Hermione taught me conviction and strength and I can’t pay her enough
homage. Hermione is my hero. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Does she know the answer, or does she need to pee? We will never know.</td></tr>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Ron is the token ginger. Also, his class
status gives him an interesting intersectionality (including his queerness as a
wizard) rare for a white heterosexual guy. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Weasley. Ronald, Weasley.</td></tr>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Here’s the part you knew was coming:
Dumbledore. One of the rare canonized LGBTQ characters in kids’ media. He’s by
far the wisest and most powerful wizard in the wizarding world. And he’s a big
ol’ gaymo. AND his sexuality is totally NBD. Which is rare for an LGBTQ
character. Depictions of out characters easily fall into the trap of their
queerness being their defining characteristic. They become caricatures feeding
harmful stereotypes. But I do wish JK had at least mentioned or slipped it somewhere
in the books. Even though it’s canonized, Dumbledore isn’t technically out in
the actual content of any of the seven books. That would have given his
sexuality a powerful position in a global story. Even if it was unintentional, there
is a hierarchy to the content surrounding the Harry Potter world. The books and
movies are raised high above all. Not one word in the books or one line in the
movies even hints at Dumbledore’s sexuality. A parent who is reading the books
to their kid could easily get through the whole series without mentioning it
and the kid would be none the wiser unless they take to the internet for
themselves. That process takes up far more time than adding in a sentence to one
of the prized tomes. More on this in a later post. RIP Richard Harris, the superior Dumbledore. </span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">That's why his beard is so big, it's full of secrets!</td></tr>
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<span lang="EN-GB">There’s a lot more I could talk about. The
wizarding world is a vast queer cornucopia. But I’m gonna save some of the
goodies for the rest of the series. (If you were wondering, I’m saving Malfoy
for book #2). So, until the next one.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">MVQ: Harry’s glasses. I love that JK gave
him this little imperfection that, surprisingly, can’t be cured with a simple
spell. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">OTP: Me and Hermione. Mhmmmmmm<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Favorite Moment: “You’re A Wizard, ‘Arry.”
That whole scene is excellent. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02179767490730835893noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1911874287480645280.post-35563827313137883562015-04-28T14:48:00.003-07:002015-04-29T09:45:28.984-07:00Beauty and the Beast<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span lang="EN-GB">Beauty and the Beast</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Disney Animation<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Released: 1991<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Directors: Gary Trousdale and Kirk Wise<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Writer: Linda Woolverton<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Starring: Paige O’Hara, Robby Benson,
Richard White, Jerry Orbach, David Ogden Stiers, Angela Lansbury<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Music & Lyrics: Alan Menken<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Rating: G<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB">Grade:
2.5/5<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Going back to the classics today. I always
felt an affinity with Belle. I was a huge bookworm when I was little and I seriously connected to her love of
literature. She’s probably the only female Disney character I saw myself in as
a kid. So let’s get to the queering!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">wheeeeee!!!</td></tr>
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<span lang="EN-GB">First we should talk about the opening
sequence. One of the best beginnings of a movie, in my humble opinion. And it’s
got some cool feminist/queer undertones. Not only does it establish the Prince,
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">the ultimate patriarchal symbol</i>, as a
spoiled brat, he gets punished for being mean to a witch/hag (read: lesbian)! Yup!
The whole plot of the movie gets kick started with a lesbian cultural symbol
cursing a patriarchal cultural symbol. How ‘bout them apples?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">You'll take my rose and you'll like it goddamnit!</td></tr>
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<span lang="EN-GB">On to Belle: she’s a total outsider. The
entire first song that establishes the world of the film is <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">all about how much of a weirdo she is</i>. She’s
a queer nerd, despite her normative beauty. She gives zero fucks. She
couldn’t care less what everyone thinks. Especially
Gaston. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Let’s talk about Gaston. Honestly, I think
he’s the most interesting character in the whole movie. Sounds strange coming from
me? You might be thinking: “Lindsay, what are you talking
about? He’s Disney’s most obvious patriarchal symbol.” Yessssss, but there’s a twist!
I think he’s actually <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">performing</i>
masculinity. </span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Werk it girl</td></tr>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Gaston is projecting a patriarchal persona and he’s overcompensating
<i>so</i> hard. In his performance of masculinity he’s actually criticizing its
tropes. The “Gaston” song hits so many stereotypes in a single verse. High Disney camp at its best. And Gaston clearly doesn’t want to marry Belle
because he loves her. He wants to marry her because he thinks they would <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">look </i>good together and fulfil heteronormative
societal expectations of him and his manliness and her and her beauty. I’m
pretty sure that Belle is his dream beard. Also, since Gaston is the villain,
the movie essentially sets the patriarchy as the villainous obstacle to true
love. I’m down with that. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">I want to take a moment and talk about the
scene where Gaston goes into Belle’s house to get her to marry him. </span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Leave room for Jesus</td></tr>
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<span lang="EN-GB">This scene
is really disturbing on a number of levels. First, that it’s super rapey.
Second, that the only way that Belle can get out of this dangerous situation
with Gaston is by using her sexuality as a weapon to lure him toward the door
so she can boot him out. That’s a pretty fucked up thing to teach kids in a
Disney movie: That men don’t respect women’s consent at all and the only thing
women can do to help themselves is to use their looks, cause that’s all that
women are good for, right? Uuuuuuuugh. Ok, rant over. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">The movie does redeem itself somewhat in
its overall message of inner beauty over outer beauty and that’s definitely a
queer message battling normative ideas, but then the Beast turns
back to a pretty prince and kinda ruins the whole thing…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">There’s also Cogsworth. He’s definitely got
some queerness going on in those gears of his. I’m pretty sure he’s been pining
over Lumiere for a while now. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Would you light my caaaaaaaandle</td></tr>
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<span lang="EN-GB">MVQ: Maurice! (Belle’s dad). He did a damn
good job raising Belle in such a narrow minded little town.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">OTP: Gaston and LeFeu. Oh yeah, that’s
definitely happening.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Favorite Moment: Belle’s reprise of the
opening song. “I want so much more than they’ve got planned.” I totally looked
up to Belle’s ambition as a kid and this is a really liberating moment for her.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02179767490730835893noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1911874287480645280.post-29490754100979393772015-04-24T12:41:00.001-07:002015-04-24T16:23:00.349-07:00Toy Story<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span lang="EN-GB">Toy Story<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Pixar Animation Studios<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Released: 1995<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Director: John Lasseter<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Story: John Lasseter, Pete Docter, Andrew
Stanton, Joe Ranft<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Writers: Joss Whedon, Andrew Stanton, Joel
Cohen, Alec Sokolow<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Starring: Tom Hanks, Tim Allen<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Music & Lyrics: Randy Newman<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Rating: G<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB">Grade:
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<span lang="EN-GB">Oh man. This movie. This is THE animated
movie. It launched Pixar’s epic reputation. It convinced me that my toys led
double lives. It’s. Just. Incredible. Genius. Beautiful. Heart warming. All the
things!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Let’s see if it’s queer.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">As much as it seriously pains me to write
anything resembling a negative comment about this movie, I have to acknowledge
that there are only two female characters in the whole movie (according to my
very diligent watching). Bo Peep (ugh, not very feminist) and Andy’s Mom (whose
name we never even learn). Major deductions for lack of diversity. Pixar
generally needs to get better at gender representation. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Moving on.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">The norm versus queer thing is a bit weird
in this one. Pixar has lots of fun when it establishes norms in worlds that are
primarily non-human. To figure out the norm here, we have to look at our
position as viewers. The norm here is our world’s norm: the human perspective.
Even though humans are not our primary characters, they still control the world
of the toys and everything is dictated by their reality. Toys are a vulnerable
population, their fates determined by human whim. Even though the toys make up
the primary characters of the story, they hold a queer position in the human
world. Their aliveness is an interruption, a deviation. In the normative world
that we know, inanimate objects do not walk, talk, think, let alone feel love. So
the idea of toys being alive: totally queer. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Let’s talk about Buzz. His character arc is
real queer. He arrives in Andy’s room believing he is an actual astronaut. He
believes in this fiction with his whole being. The fiction here is not only
that he believes he is a real astronaut, but the nuance that he believes he is
a real <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">human </i>astronaut. His ignorance
is bliss. He believes he can fly. He believes he can touch the sky. For most of
the movie he lives in his happy, bubbly normative world. Then reality finally hits
when he sees his commercial and the bold letters, “THIS IS NOT A FLYING TOY.” I
well up every time he tries to fly through the window and smashes to the
ground. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Poor Buzz. This realization is Buzz’s queer Ah Ha! moment (I talked
about this in my <a href="http://lionstigersqueersohmy.blogspot.co.uk/2015/04/the-prince-of-egypt.html" target="_blank">Prince of Egypt</a> post). In this moment he realizes his
queerness. He realizes he is not a real (human) astronaut. He is a toy. He is a
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">queer </i>toy. And in this he realizes
the hierarchy of queer versus norm and that being <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">just </i>a toy is lesser than being a <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">real </i>astronaut. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">But what’s great about this story is the
message the movie drives home: THEY ARE NOT <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">JUST
</i>TOYS. Being a toy, being <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">someone’s </i>toy
is an incredible thing to be. Being queer is an incredible thing to be. Flying
is not as cool as falling with style. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I'm the king of the world!</td></tr>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Don’t believe me? Let’s look a bit closer
at the Woody versus Buzz tug of war over Andy. Bear with me on this one. I want
to liken kids’ relationships with their toys to romantic relationships. Think
about it. You love them and they love you unconditionally, even if they are
alive. You take them everywhere. You sleep with them (not like that, get your
head out of the gutter). <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Andy even
plasters his walls with posters of them and tons of merch. I’ll confess: my
relationship with my Teddy bear is the most stable romantic relationship of my
life. Yes, I am a grown woman who still sleeps with her childhood teddy bear.
And now the internet knows way too much about me. When Buzz replaces Woody as
Andy’s favorite toy, the storytelling treats it like a break up. There’s a
whole montage of Woody’s heartbreak. Woody tosses Buzz out the window because
he’s the jealous ex. </span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Who THOT?</td></tr>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Rewatch the movie and try to tell me its not structured
like a classic rom-com love triangle. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Linking the queerness of toys to the toys’
romantic relationship with their kids shows us that queer relationships are no
less important than norm relationships. The story flips the queer versus norm hierarchy
on its head prioritizing queerness and queer relationships. That being someone’s
toy is a special thing to be. “Being a toy is a lot better than being a space
ranger.” Cool, right? Is the ending secretly pro-polyamory? I’ll let you be the
judge of that one. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">I also want to mention Sid’s toys. </span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">We come in peace!</td></tr>
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<span lang="EN-GB">A queer
subplot? I think so. At first they seem weird and totally terrifying, but they
end up being really nice! They fix Buzz! Their story hits home the toy versus
human, queerness versus norm. Sid’s toys are totally an oppressed population.
No contest. Interesting to note that this <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Toy
Story </i>movie is the only one in the trilogy (soon to be 4-parter!) where
toys reveal their aliveness to humans. Not sure what that means. Just thought I’d
point it out. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Something I had never noticed before my
recent rewatch is that the movie represents alternative family models and it’s
totally NBD. There’s never any sort of mention of Andy’s dad, or lack thereof. Andy’s
Mom is a single mom raising two kids and it needs no explanation. I’ve watched
this movie many times and this is the only time I have ever noticed it. What a
cool queer discovery!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">AND finally, Rex is a total sissy. But I
think that’s probably the most obvious queerness in the movie. I just love that
this supposedly terrifying carnivorous dinosaur is the least ferocious
character ever.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">TINY T-REX ARMS!</td></tr>
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<span lang="EN-GB">MVQ: Buzz gets the queer struggle.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">OTP: Woody and Buzz, obvi.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">ummmmm....</td></tr>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Favorite Moment: When Buzz and Woody fly. I
have so much nostalgia for the first time I ever watched that scene. Incredible
storytelling/animation moment. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Epic<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Blue Sky Studios<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Released: 2013<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Director: Chris Wedge<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Starring: Amanda Seyfried, Josh Hutcherson,
Beyoncé Knowles, Aziz Ansari, Christoph Waltz<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Writers: James V. Hart, William Joyce,
Daniel Shere, Tom J. Astle, and Matt Ember<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Inspired by William Joyce’s book <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Leaf Men and the Brave Good Bugs<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Rating: PG<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB">Grade:
3/5<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">TODAY IS EARTH DAY! Happy Earth Day
everyone! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">In honor of Earth Day I’m gonna take a
queer look at <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Epic</i>!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">This movie kinda slipped through the cracks.
It’s by the same studio that did <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Ice Age</i>
and they’re gonna come out with the new <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Peanuts
</i>movie soon which is crazy exciting. Keep an eye on them.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">I wanted to do this particular movie on
Earth Day because THERE’S SO MUCH PRETTY ANIMATED NATURE! Seriously. The
animation is gorgeous. If this review-ish blog posty thing doesn’t convince you
to watch it, I hope the pictures do. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">It’s difficult to distinguish what is norm
versus queer in this movie. We are dealing with two worlds: human and forest.
But the two worlds aren’t really juxtaposed as queer versus norm because they
aren’t in conflict with each other. The main conflict sits within the forest
world and the human world comes into play when the Leafmen need help to defeat
their enemies, the Boggans. Buuuuuut there are definitely specific characters
we can talk about.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">First, let’s look at the characters in the
human world: MK and her dad. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Exposition for their situation is that MK is
moving back in with her dad since her mom died. He lives with his three-legged
dog in a house in the middle of the forest and all he does is look for these
tiny forest people he believes exist, despite essentially losing everyone in
his life because of his obsession. I’ve got some questions about dad. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The whole thing about alienating people in his
life because of his weird obsession, I think he’s a gay dad who came out later
in life and that’s the real reason mom and dad separated. I like what this
interpretation does to the movie. It makes the father/daughter story much more
complex, making their arc entirely about MK coming to terms with her father’s
queerness now that her mother is gone and accepting him and his weird forest
people obsession. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">On to the forest people! BEYONCÉ PLAYS A
QUEEN! </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Beyoncé is literally <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">the queen</i>.
All hail Queen Bey. Which is cool for a number of reasons. 1) Beyoncé. 2)
Beyoncé has magical nature powers that are fly as fuck. And 3) She’s a <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">female </i>political leader with magical
powers AND 4) She’s a POC (person of color). Look at all that
intersectionality!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">We are also introduced to the Leafmen and
this world of forest creatures. In the big crowd scene we see all different
types of forest people, from little daisies, to slugs, to those stick insect
things. Loads of diversity in the forest population, which is really cool
representation, even if it’s just of fictional species. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">A few other forest people characters to
mention: the snail and the slug who take care of the magical pod. They fit into
the Timon and Pumba trope of gay male parental figures. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Also, Nim Galoo. He’s mostly just a big
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<span lang="EN-GB">The movie as a whole isn’t super queer. But
it’s super Earth Day-y! The whole conflict is all about growth versus decay and
beauty versus rot. It’s pretty straight up evil versus good without a ton of
nuance. But I guess you could talk about how nature is good and pretty and how
being queer is a natural thing and is therefore beautiful…IDK, this one is a
stretch. But I stand by my gay dad theory.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">MVQ: Beyoncé. Always Beyoncé.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">OTP: MK and Queen Tara. Because Beyoncé. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Avatar: The Last Airbender<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Nickelodeon<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">2005-2008<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Creators: Michael Dante DiMartino and Bryan
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<span lang="EN-GB">Starring: Zach Tyler, Mae Whitman, Jack De
Sena, Dante Basco, Jessie Flower, and Mako<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Rating: TV-Y7<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB">Grade:
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<span lang="EN-GB">Water, Earth, Fire, Air. Long ago the four
nations lived in harmony, then everything changed when the Fire Nation
attacked. Dun dun duuuuuuuuun.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Let’s queer a TV show!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Because this is a TV show, there’s a lot
more material to cover. I’m going to do my best to get to everything, but I’m
mostly going to look at the characters. Please add comments with anything I’ve
missed. I know there are some rabid Avatar fans out there, so have at it. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Here are the three queer big ones:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Aang. The two-part pilot really gives him a
nice queer foundation. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Not only is he the one and only Avatar, he’s also an Airbender,
an essentially extinct population wiped out by a mass genocide led by the fire
nation one hundred years ago. He is literally the last of his kind. He is
completely unique in this world, which he would be any way if he were just the
Avatar, but his Air Nation heritage puts him over the edge for
intersectionality. Being the Avatar might not seem like it is a queer position,
but it totally is. He’s completely outside of the norm (single-element benders).
What’s counter-intuitive here is that his queerness is celebrated, even
worshiped because his queerness makes him more powerful than other benders. Aang
is essentially this world’s version of a superhero. I have a theory that all
superheroes are queer in some way. Superheroes are a utopian version of
queerness where, for the most part, their differences and deviations from the
norm are widely celebrated because they use those powers (special skills,
whatever) to help normative people and better society through their queerness.
Cool, right? <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Back to <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Avatar</i>.
We also hear Aang say things like, “I never asked to be the Avatar.” Aang just
wanted to be a “normal kid” like the other Airbenders he grew up with. Sound
familiar? A lot of the first season is dedicated to Aa</span>ng learning about being an
Avatar and embracing his true identity in order to reach his full Avatar
potential to take down the Fire Lord and save the world! That’s a queer coming
of age story if I’ve ever heard one.</div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">His journey throughout the series is a beautifully crafted arc of the redeemed anti-hero
with lots of wrong turns and revelations along the way. His backstory is rich
and complex. Let’s look at that for a sec. When we meet Zuko, he’s the epitome
of the angry young man. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The notorious
banished prince wears his public shame one his face in the burn scar he got
from the duel (Agni Kai) he lost against his father. Zuko gets exiled with his
Uncle Iroh (who also has a <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">ton </i>of
queer potential), the sage zen master. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Who else gets banished for standing up
to their parents and losing? That’s right. Queer kids. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Finally, there’s Toph. Her queerness is far
more obvious. She’s blind. She’s differently abled. She’s also crazy feminist.
She gives zero fucks. And she has SO MUCH AGENCY. Gotta love a girl with agency.
I mean, we do meet her as The Blind Bandit in a bender version of a cage fight.
She’s seriously so badass. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Did I even mention that (Spoilers!) <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">she’s the first person to figure out metal
bending!?! </i>You go, girl. What’s cool about Toph and her queerness is that
her blindness is what makes her better at Earthbending than anyone else. The
whole thing where she can see through Earthbending is incredibly empowering.
And this is a thing that can actually happen in real life! (Not the Earthbending
part, obviously. I wish.) There’s this guy, Daniel Kish (nickname batman) who
is a blind man who can ride a bike because he taught himself how to echolocate!
Listen to the podcast about him. It is mind-boggling. The podcast talks about
this a lot, and I think Avatar was trying to get at this too: blindness and
differently-ablednesses are societal constructs. People who are blind can adapt
to the world around them and their inability to see but they usually do not
because their ability status immediately positions them as lesser than those of
us who are able-bodied. We are all conditioned to help a blind person cross the
street because we believe that they cannot do so safely without our help.
Daniel Kish definitely does not need help crossing the street. And Toph does
not need protection (unless she hurts her feet somehow). <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Avatar </i>provides a fresh take on how we perceive and treat people who
are differently-abled. It’s about time. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">I also wanted to give a quick shout-out to
the Kyoshi Warriors. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">We meet them really early on in the first season and they
immediately challenge Sokka’s/the audiences’ preconceived gender roles. Avatar
Kyoshi is also pretty cool. I can’t remember if she’s the only female avatar
who comes up before Korra. Whatever, female avatars are awesome!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">MVQ: Gotta go for a tie between Zuko and
Uncle Iroh. They’re the perfect pair.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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episode instead. “Zuko Alone,” Book 2, Chapter 7. It’s a really important
episode for Zuko’s arc and we learn about his mother and a huge chunk of his
backstory. Also, the animation on this one is gorgeous!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Home<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Dreamworks Animation<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">Based on the book <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The True Meaning of Smekday </i>by Adam Rex<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">WARNING! I will try my best not to spoil
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<span lang="EN-GB">Guys, I was so close to ugly crying during
this one. It’s definitely not an <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">incredible
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moments. AND IT’S SO QUEER!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">THE PROTAGONIST IS FEMALE AND A YOUNG PERSON
OF COLOR! </span>WHAAAAAT! Unprecedented. That’s honestly the reason why I wanted to
see the movie. And I was super surprised to find out that basically the whole
creative team are a bunch of white dudes. Which is kinda…weird? Whatever, good
for them. Finally some white dudes are advocating for queer voices! My biggest
complaint about the movie, honestly, is that the title is horrible. They couldn’t
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<span lang="EN-GB">Now to the story: we are first introduced
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<span lang="EN-GB">Oh is not your ordinary Boov. It’s actually really
interesting how the movie introduces us to this culture through Oh’s
perspective. Oh’s queerness is immediately present as we realize that he does
not fit in, despite his blind optimism. Because we learn about this world from
the queer perspective, the audience is left to connect the dots that make up
the normative culture. The queer perspective gets prioritized over the norm
perspective. That’s so cool! It also created a bit of a brain puzzle, trying to
figure out why the other Boovs ostracized Oh so much when he seems so likeable
to the audience. There are parts of Oh’s queer story that really hit <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">home</i>. (Spoilers! If you’re really a
stickler…) Oh throws a party for his neighbours , but no one shows up. The
other Boovs tiptoe past his apartment, careful not to let him know that they
are just outside. Oh comes outside to find other Boovs, even wandering into
another apartment, but he can’t find anyone to come to his party becase they
are all hiding from him behind the couches. This scene (was it supposed to be
comedic?) was actually kinda hard for me to watch. The cruelness of it really
got to me. I’m glad the creators didn’t shy away from an honest portrayal of
bullying. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Then we meet Gratuity “Tip” Tucci, our
human protagonist played by Rihanna who KILLS it, btw. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">(Spoilers again!) So,
when the Boov are running away from the Gorg, they arrive on Earth and “relocate”
the entire human population to Australia. Pretty intense, right. Tip and her
mom get separated during the relocation process and Tip gets left behind with
her cat, Pig. The whole objective of the movie is to get Tip reunited with “my
mom.” Not only do we have TWO WOMEN OF COLOR represented in the film, one of
whom is the protagonist who has total plot driving power, we also see an
alternative family structure with her mom as a single parent. There is never
any mention of a dad, that he died, that he left, etc. It’s a non-issue. The
focus here is on a loving mother-daughter bond, and a functional two-person
family. BOOM. YES. MIND. BLOWN. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Then we get to the part where Tip and Oh
meet. I won’t spoil all that for you, but all you need to know is they basically
go on a road trip in a floating car. Sound good? <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>At first, they realllllllyyyyy don’t like each
other. Being from antagonist species doesn’t really help the initial friendship.
But they eventually learn to like each other. They take selfies and jam out. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">This friendship between queers is an awesome representation of collaboration
across queer boundaries. Often, different kinds of queerness get sectioned off
from each other culturally. Black culture is separate from gay culture, which
is split into gay male culture and lesbian culture, latina/o culture is
separate from trans culture, and so on an so forth. Intersectionalities make
these separations even <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">more</i>
complicated and narrow. Oh and Tip’s friendship builds the queer bridge between
marginalized cultures. Even if a misfit alien and a young human girl of color
have nothing in common from the outside, they share a queerness that bonds them
beyond any cultural divides. I’ve found this to be true in most of the close
friendships I’ve had in my life. I gravitate towards people who understand and
identify as queer (explicitly or implicitly) in some way. Queers just get each
other. Tip and Oh’s friendship also shows the power these collaborations can
have. If queers would just bridge the divide and join forces, all those queer
voices together could be much <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">much</i> louder
than the normative folks. I think this is the real reason movies like this are
starting to be made with queer protagonists. The entertainment industry is
hearing the queer voices, particularly on the internet. Those voices are only
getting louder. And that’s how progress happens, folks. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">MVQ: Tip gets the win on this one. Did I mention
that Rihanna <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">kills.</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">OTP: Oh and Pig the Cat. Pig just fits so perfectly on top of Oh’s head.
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">Starring: Julie Andrews, Dick Van Dyke<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">Writer(s): Bill Walsh, Don DaGradi<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">Based on the book series by PL Travers<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">Rating: “U” – whatever that means<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b>3.5/5</b></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">Honestly, I really had no idea she existed </span>(or that she was a she) until I saw
Saving Mr. Banks, which is actually a pretty beautiful movie although it takes
some serious liberties and skates over some of Walt’s more unseemly personality
traits. PL completely disapproved of the movie adaptation of her books which is kinda sad.
And she had an “ambiguous” relationship with a woman (Francis Burnand) for more
than a decade. So….I’ll let you make your own conclusions on that. Even with
Disney’s liberties on the story, the feminism (and lesbian undertones) are not completely
lost in the adaptation.</div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">Let’s skip over Dick Van Dyke for the most part.
Bert is charming, but that’s pretty much it. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">He’s got some class undertones
going on, but his accent is so offensively bad that he just ends up being a
caricature of a working class Englishman of the industrial revolution. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">This movie isn’t so much queer as it is
feminist. Which is pretty cool coming from this era of Disney. I think credit
needs to be given to the source material for a lot of that. There are really
interesting extreme contrasts of feminist and patriarchal tropes. Let’s dive
in. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">But first, a short love letter to Julie Andrews:
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">Oh, Julie. My dear, dear, Julie. How I’ve loved
you through the years. And how I wish you were my nanny. Your sweet songs,
ability to clean without picking up a single thing, and bottomless carpet bag; you
had me at a Spoonful of Sugar.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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a suffragette. ONE OF THE FIRST SONGS IS “SISTER SUFFRAGETTE” CALLING FOR WOMEN’S
VOTES! That’s AWESOME! </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">She’s an outspoken feminist who wears a sash in almost
every scene she’s in. And Mary herself is pretty damn feminist. She won’t take
no for an answer from Mr. Banks. She almost blatantly disregards him on a
number of occasions. She provides an unwavering female voice of authority and
leadership. The nanny of all nannys. Pretty great role model for kids, gotta
say. As much as the movie tries to hint at a Bert and Mary romance, she never
really gives in to his hinting and advances. I’d speculate that she’s actually
performing heterosexuality and not engaging in it as she participates in hetero
dating tropes in the fantasy sequence. </span></div>
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seen one. Even when men faun over her, she remains unmoved. And she’s not
afraid to get dirty when it’s called for. I always loved the moment when she
powders her nose with dirt and gives military marching orders to Bert and the
kids before “Step in Time.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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do with banks, really. It’s not only an extremist depiction of patriarchy, but
of the rise of capitalism. This movie is actually kinda Marxist! Mr. Banks’
first song, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">right </i>after “Sister
Suffragette” is soooooo patriarchal and stuffy. He likes his wife at home, his
kids with the nanny, his food made by his cook, and his life in perfect order.
But his ideal of his life is far removed from his immediate reality. His wife is
a feminist, his kids are troublemakers, and every hour on the hour his house
suffers a minor earthquake from the canon that goes off from the crazy ship
captain and his first mate who live next door. On to the Bank. The old crotchety bankers are
set in their ways and terrifyingly so. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">This movie teaches kids to be scared of
old white men bankers! I’m glad Disney chose to portray the true villains of
the world (oof, this is getting way more political that I thought). The old
white dudes CORNER poor little Michael to snatch up his tuppence to put into a
bank account. I can totally relate to Michael. Finances are scary. I would have
run away too. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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caught in their glory years. Two crazy old men still living together = gay men
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This guy is so damn happy he floats! Sounds pretty gay to me.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">The ending is important to talk about in how the
movie reconciles the feminist and patriarchal tropes. Mr. Banks flings off the
oppressive shackles of his banking job, grabs his kids and his wife to go fly a
kite. The film lands somewhere between the feminist and patriarchal themes.
While the patriarchy gets subverted, feminism doesn’t exactly win in the end.
It kinda, just drops off actually. With Mary Poppins taking off, we lose our
feminist protagonist, and Mrs. Banks can’t hold her own to Mr. Banks’
storyline. He even gets a PROMOTION from the BANK! Ugh. A true win for the
feminist narrative would have happened had they gone to fly a kite to celebrate
women getting the vote in the UK due to the suffragette efforts. But nope,
thwarted again by Disney.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">MVQ: Uncle Albert. He’s just so happy and gay!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">Starring: Val Kilmer, Ralph Fiennes, Michelle
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Mirren, Steve Martin, Martin Short<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">THIS IS FOR ALL MAH JEWS OUT THERE! Happy
Passover, Pesach, whatever floats your boat. I’m pretty bias because my Long
Island Jewish family is huge and we had those stereotypical ginormous Jewish
Seders that I always thought were really boring, but actually were really
awesome, but Passover is definitely in the top 5 of awesome holidays. There’s
excellent food, good company, comforting traditions and rituals, AND a great
story to boot.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">Before I start talking about the movie, I want
to address this first. I’m not really a religious person. I identify as
culturally Jew-ish. That said, I’m going to be look at this story as a story
with no other religious weight attached to it outside of cultural symbolism and
context. From my perspective, God is just another character. I apologize if I
offend anyone by writing out their name. My intention is not to offend. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">Now you might be thinking…this is a biblical
story…how can that be queer? OMG IT’S SO QUEER! This is legitimately my favorite
bible story and it’s because of how queer it is. It’s the ultimate story of perseverance
through oppression and an interesting introduction to activism. The Egyptians versus
the Jewish slaves. The norm versus the queer. Also, it has an insane all-star
cast. Hello, Sandra Bullock. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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His whole life he has ignored this fact. He’s been one of them, growing up with
mountains of privilege, tearing through the city on his chariot with no regard
for anything other than winning a race against his “brother.” </span><br />
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of that changes and the life he has known comes crumbling down around him. He finds
Miriam in the street after chasing Tzipporah (who is an awesome feminist
character with tons of chutzpah, btw) and Miriam flips that switch in his brain. “You were born of our
mother Yocheved, you are our brother!” It's that OMG-I'm-totally-queer-and-have-been-since-I-was-a-tiny-little-swaddled-baby moment. He runs to the palace’s hieroglyphics and
finds out the truth about how the Jews are treated by the Egyptian monarchy. He
was found in a basket in the river because his mother wanted to spare him from
the slaughter of male Jewish children. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Woah. </span><br />
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">That’s some heavy stuff to find out.
That essentially his entire life has been a lie. </span><span style="color: black; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">“All I Ever Wanted,” speaks to that queer
moment of recognizing that you are not of the norm, and how wrong it
is that something can even be “norm” and prioritized over any other way of
being. This is the liminal moment of transformation where he is still hanging
on to everything he knows and loves before moving on to a hard but fruitful
future as someone with a queer identity.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: black; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">This realization boils over when Moses goes to the construction sight
for Ramses new temple and sees the guard beating an elderly Jewish slave. Moses
pushes the guard off the scaffolding and kills him. And Moses runs away into
the desert. This is his public coming out, if you will, as a Jew. He aligns
himself with the queer, oppressed population in his personal identity and
politically. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">Then comes the hippy dippy part of the movie when Moses joins the Jewish
nomads, looks at his life through heaven’s eyes, gets married to the girl he
objectified when he was a Pharoah’s son, becomes and shepherd, and takes too
much acid and hears God speak to him through a burning bush…”Through Heaven’s
Eyes,” should be the pro-gay religious anthem. It uses the religious idea of heaven
to promote equality. WOAH! Something religious AND pro-gay/pro-equality? These
things exist and they are awesome.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">Then Moses goes back to Egypt with his magical staff. Um? Phallic symbol
much? I think God is overcompensating or something. </span><br />
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<span style="color: black; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">He wants his long lost
Pharoah brother dude to LET MY QUEERS GO! But, surprise surprise patriarchy, he
doesn’t do it. But Moses doesn’t give up asking. He continues to advocate for
the oppressed queer population. If only all activist movements had a fancy
magical staff that could enact God’s wrath in the name of equality. Alas…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">Something I’m really glad this adaptation did was not to sugar coat the
ending where <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>God sends down the tenth
and final plague killing Egyptians’ first born sons. This shows the cost both
sides must pay in these conflicts between queer and norm. Pharoah was stubborn
for too long and he paid the price. Think of it as a warning to the patriarchy.
You burn us, we burn you. It’s not the most non-violent approach, but it gets
the point across.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">It’s also the final showdown.
Ramses is just a plain dummy for trying to run after all those queers. He gets what was coming to him. For once the patriarchy is the bad guy and he gets his comeuppance. And then
they sing “Miracles.” “There will be miracles / if you believe.” The final
optimistic message of the movie. The queers can persevere and prosper. All you
have to do is believe.</span></div>
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That big old bear just wants everyone to love each other. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">Favorite moment: There are a lot of awesome moments and it’s hard to
pick just one. “Through Heaven’s Eyes,” is a close second, but I’m gonna have
to go with “All I Ever Wanted.”</span><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02179767490730835893noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1911874287480645280.post-44686988036233875432015-04-08T04:05:00.000-07:002015-06-04T07:58:50.713-07:00Monsters, Inc.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span lang="EN-GB">Monsters, Inc.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Pixar Animation Studios<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Released: 2001<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Director: Pete Docter<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Starring: John Goodman, Billy Crystal, and
Steve Buscemi<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Composer: Paul Newman<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Rating: G<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB">Grade: 3/5<o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
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<span lang="EN-GB">This is my first Pixar post! Are you
excited? Cause I definitely am. They are so good at telling beautiful stories
that hit you right in the feels. But are they good at telling queer stories? I’m
on the fence. But <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Monsters, Inc. </i>might
convince you otherwise.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">We’ve got this world full of monsters that
live inside your closet who scare children so they can power their world
through screams. Basic premise. Pretty economic idea. But it’s got some cool
queer stuff going on. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Stay with me through this one. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">I want to propose an allegory. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">So we’ve got this world of monsters
established as our norm. The humans and the human world are not normative, aka representing
a queer presence as a sort of alternate/separate universe. The monsters are
terrified of humans and anything to do with them. Even a sock is a huge
contaminant. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">I want to look at the first time we see the
monsters’ fear in action. The big orange monster dude (I can’t remember his
name, does he even have a name?) comes out of his door, feeling good, when
suddenly his sidekick/manager dude sees that a human sock is stuck to his back.
CODE 2319! CODE 2319! The CDC (Child Detection Agency) rushes in, shaves off
all his orange fur, and leaves him in a plastic dog collar, completely nude and
humiliated in front of all his colleagues. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Can I get some privacy...maybe?</td></tr>
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<span lang="EN-GB">I want to read this as an allegory for the beginning
of the gay rights movement. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s not a
perfect allegory, but whatever. Let’s just pretend, shall we?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">We are in an arcane (thank glob) world
where homosexuality (humans) are terrifying. Even coming into contact with one
is highly dangerous. Let’s call that wide spread homophobia. When word gets out
that Boo, a tiny human, has come into the monster world, she causes a
panic/riot in the restaurant scene where Mike Wazowski is trying to have a nice
dinner with his girlfriend, hello heterosexuality. This riot reminds me of
Stonewall. This is the first huge collision between normative culture and queer
culture, shaking up hierarchies and perceptions, leading (eventually) to the
civil rights movement we know today. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">'Sup guys?</td></tr>
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<span lang="EN-GB">The relationship between Boo and Sully
shows this evolution. Because he has gotten to know a human personally, he sees
that humans are not dangerous and he comes to care deeply for one adorable tiny
human. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">To go back to the moment between the big
orange dude and the CDC, I’m reminded of the humiliating punishments LGBTQ
people were subjected to by governments (and still are, hello Russia, and a
bunch of other countries). Think anti-sodomy laws, and forced castration. It’s
some humiliating and terrifying stuff. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">But let’s think of happier things. Even in
the face of adversity and horrible conditions throughout queer history, we have
to move forward with positivity and a hope for the future. At least that’s how
I keep going. Also I do fun things like queering kids’ movies.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Anyway…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">The exciting thing about this allegory is
that it totally makes fun of homophobia and that arcane society. It completely
turns normativity on its head. In our world, humans are the normative and
monsters, aliens, the things of a child’s imagination, are queer, they are
outside of societal constructs because they are of the imagination. In <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Monsters, Inc</i>, monsters are the
normative and a tiny little girl causes a HUGE commotion. That’s just so
absurd. Tiny little girls pose absolutely no threat to anyone ever. That’s why
the premise is brilliant. It’s also pretty radical. If we equate Boo with this
queerness, then the film is saying that a queer person is just as innocuous and
non-threatening as a tiny little girl. And no one in their right mind, no
matter how conservative they are, can be scared of a little girl. Unless she’s
the girl from <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The </i>Ring. She’s pretty
scary. She even has to dress up as a monster to <i>pass! </i>The movie shows us a world where our normative is treated as a kind of
queerness. That’s pretty cool.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Also, there’s the whole thing about screams
and how they power the monster world which then turns into laughter powering
the monster world and actually being more effective than screams. I’m gonna
pull the queer shame versus queer pride card again. We can talk about how despite
the oppression of queer populations , society was still functional, but when
queer pride started coming around and queer voices began contributing to
popular discourses, culture began to expand. Although there is still a long way
to go, this parallel shows that the productivity of non-oppressive culture is
beneficial not only for queers, but for society as a whole. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">How’s that queer interpretation for ya?</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><b>MVQ</b>: <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Boo. She fights homophobia with cuteness. That’s
definitely the best way to do it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><b>OTP</b>: Boo <3 Sully, but in a father/daughter kinda way, ew get your mind out of the gutter<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><b>Favorite moment</b>: The
final moment when the final piece of Boo’s door goes in and Sully’s face just
lights up with pure joy. I die everytime. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Walt Disney Pictures<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Released: 1998<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Directors: Tony Bancroft, Barry Cook<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Starring: Ming-Na Wen, Lea Salonga, BD
Wong, Eddie Murphy, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Music & Lyrics: Jerry Goldsmith<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Rating: G<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB">GRADE: 4/5<o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
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<span lang="EN-GB">This post is in honor of the live-action
version of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Mulan </i>that Disney just
announced!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></i><span lang="EN-GB">is an interesting one. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">First off, let’s address how awesome this
film is for diversity. There are very few Asian protagonists in American
mainstream media, let alone aimed at kids, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">let
alone</i> with a female at the helm. So hats off to you Disney. Diversity
points for you Disney, you go Disney. And none for the patriarchy <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Second, this film is a <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">fascinating</i> meditation on gender roles. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Let’s start with the fact that it’s set in
ancient China. Not sure what dynasty. It’s been a while since I’ve brushed up
on my Chinese history. Apologies to my high school history teachers. The
culture we are dropped into is highly conservative and family oriented with
incredibly strict gender roles. But this culture might look a bit familiar. The
entire opening montage is Mulan being shoved, poked, and prodded by her family
members scrubbing her down and painting her up in the day’s ideal of
beauty.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Now, I’ve never participated in
a beauty pageant, or debutante ball or anything like that, but if <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Miss Congeniality </i>is evidence enough,
this beautifying process is not so far off from what we still do today as a
means of achieving idealized femininity. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">And Mulan is terrible at all of it. She is
not the ideal feminine figure. She may be beautiful, but she doesn’t make the cut
simply because, at heart, she’s a tried and true tomboy who feels clownish in a
dress.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Her gender expression does not
match what people/society are telling her. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">The quintessential ballad of identity. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s
not difficult to read a trans narrative into the song. “Who is that girl I see
/ Staring straight / Back at me?...When will my reflection show / Who I am
inside?” Ummmmmmm…how much more queer can you get, honestly. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">There’s also the cross dressing. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Sure, the
motivation behind it is to save her father from imminent death should he rejoin
the army, but not once does she act uncomfortable in her male garb. She
stumbles a bit in her masculine performance, but not once does she make
commentary on how it is wrong to cross dress, or for a woman to act like a man. She even binds! Now, female protagonists
cross-dressing is not a particularly new revelation. Women in Shakespeare’s
comedies cross-dress all the time. There’s a whole history of it in classical
storytelling dating back to multiple cultures of ancient mythology. I’m
definitely not an expert, so I won’t pretend to be, but what interests me the
most is that any negativity toward cross dressing presented is forced upon her
by the strict societal gender code when she is found out and nearly executed. In
fact, the most famous sequence of the film “I’ll Make a Man Out Of You” and her
victory climbing to the top of the post is an incredibly radical act that <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">proves</i> with absolutely no concessions that
women are not only equal to men in that they can achieve what they can, but
that women might even be superior to men. Woah. Take that, patriarchy. </span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">How's the weather down there?</td></tr>
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movie is clearly feminist, grapples with gender expression, and leaves room for
interpretations on gender identity.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">There are also some interesting moments on
sexuality. She doesn’t really seem interested in the whole match maker debacle.
She’s just doing it to bring honor to her family, not for her own
benefit. When she takes a bath in the river and sees all the boys running at
her, willies akimbo, she says, “I never want to see a naked man again.” Yup.
Direct quote. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">And she joins in on “A Girl Worth Fighting For.” I thought she
was fighting for her father. Turns out she might swing the other way.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If you want to talk about the ending and how
she <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">allegedly</i> ends up with Shang, I don’t
know. I think the whole romance plot here is a bit of an after thought. This
story isn’t about romance, it’s about empowerment, and this subplot just gets tacked on
at the end. Sure, he does spare her life when he finds out she’s a woman, but
she also saved everyone’s lives, so the claim for romantic intrigue there is
frail. Disney felt the need to give Mulan a heterosexual love interest which
just sucks. Probably to appease the patriarchy. DON’T GIVE IN DISNEY! JUMP OFF THAT BANDWAGON!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Aside from the half-assed romance, the ending
of the film is a triumph, proving that Mulan is a total badass. </span></div>
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SHE
LITERALLY SAVES ALL OF CHINA AND THE WHOLE COUNTRY BOWS DOWN TO HER INCLUDING
THE EMPEROR! That’s insane! An entire population bowing down to a woman? It’s
unprecedented.<br />
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Can you tell I like this movie? And then, especially with the trans
considerations in mind, the ending could be taken as a utopic depiction of
governmental acceptance and a huge disruption of patriarchal superiority. Although, the trans interpretation does fall apart a
bit when Mulan comes back to save China with her hair down and presenting as
female, though with a more masculine air about her. But Disney isn’t quite
there yet, even 17 years later. Someday
soon there will be an<i> out</i> queer
protagonist. Someday…<br />
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<span lang="EN-GB"><b>MVQ:</b> Mulan. Honorable mention goes to the
Emperor for defying the strict gender codes and choosing to acknowledge her
accomplishments. Real rulers haven’t really done that throughout history…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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cricket. They make a good team. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><b>Favorite moment:</b> “I’ll
Make A Man Out Of You” and climbing the post. I always wanted to try it as a
kid, but it’s really hard </span><span style="color: black; font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-char-type: symbol; mso-hansi-font-family: Times; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-char-type: symbol; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;">L</span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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WATCH THE VIDEO VERSION!</div>
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<span style="color: black;">Spy Kids<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">Dimension Films & Troublemaker Studios<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">Released: 2001<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">Written & Directed: Robert Rodriguez<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">Starring: Antonio Banderas, Alexa Vega, Carla Gugino, Daryl Sabara<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black;">GRADE: 4.5/5<o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
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<span style="color: black;">Remember this movie? I loved this movie as a kid and rewatched it
recently thinking I was going to be disappointed, but NO! It’s actually wayyyy
better watching it now as an adult-ish human person. It’s SO<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> QUEER</i>! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">Here’s a <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">quick recap</b>:
The movie follows the Cortez family: Gregorio (um, awesome name, right),
Ingrid, Carmen, and Juni. </span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">Mommy Spy and Daddy Spy were international spies who
got married and went under cover when they had kids. So think of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Mr & Mrs Smith </i>as its prequel. Basically,
spies start disappearing and Mom and Dad Spy go looking for them and get caught
so it’s left to the kids to save alllllllll the spies. Alan Cumming plays
Floop, who is a villain (gonna talk about him in a hot sec) and is the host of
a kid’s show and an inventor who is working for an evil dude who is paying him
to create an army of robot children to take over the world. You know, normal
stuff. New kid spies Carmen and Juni end up saving their parents and happily
ever after blah blah blah. Just go rewatch it (it’s on Netflix!).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">Spy Kids has a few things go for it. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">First! <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Daddy Spy is
Mexican!</b> We’ve got an interracial marriage AND mixed race kids.
INTERSECTIONALITY BONUS POINTS! Looks like we’re off to a good start.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">Next, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Juni</b>. Poor little
Juni. He’s not just bullied by the awful white boy in his class, the bullying makes
him so stressed out that his hands sweat and cause warts, making the bullying
worse </span><span style="color: black; font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Times; mso-char-type: symbol; mso-hansi-font-family: Times; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-char-type: symbol; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;">L</span></span><span style="color: black;"> That’s no fun. So he’s definitely got
some othering/queering story stuff going on. There’s this one really awesome
moment when Daddy Spy is dropping Juni off at school and sees him get bullied and he goes into a dream sequence where he confront’s the Daddy Bully and punches
him in the face because he’s an international spy and he can do that, but instead he just stays in the car. It’s a sad moment but it feels very real and
heartfelt and I’m sure lots of parents of queer kids can relate. Also, the
actor pulled a bit of a Neville Longbottom:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">Things get better, kids.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">Next, the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">women</b> in this
movie are pretty kick-ass. Carmen is fiercely independent (if a bit rebellious)
and has so much agency the whole time they are dodging all the people who are
after them. Also, when Daddy Spy tells Mommy Spy that he’s gonna go off on a
mission, she totally puts her foot down and insists that she go along with him.
Look at that outspoken feminism. </span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">(I also totally had a crush on Carmen as a kid, fyi. She looks like this now so...)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">Here’s the big one! <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">FLOOOOOOOOOP</b>. </span>Floop. Floopy Floop. What an awesome character name. AND he’s played by out <i>bi</i>sexual actor Alan Cumming (bisexual
visibility points! Wanna watch a cool thing about bisexual erasure? <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YHwdLZldThU" target="_blank">Click here</a>!). </div>
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Besides that, evidence for queerness comes from
how damn campy he is! He hosts a kids show called Floop’s Fooglies where the
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<span style="color: black;">I mean, come on. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">For the first 45 minutes of rewatching this movie, I was really
disappointed because I thought Floop was just <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">another</i> queer villain character to add to the ginormous list. BUT
NO! Well, yeah he still does bad villainy stuff, but (spoilers!) we actually
learn that he doesn’t really care about the villain stuff, he really just wants
to make a good kids’ show which is kinda adorable. His evil minion Minion is
the actual evil one. Floop helps Carmen and Juni defeat Minion at the
end of it all. That’s pretty cool. Dismantling the gay villain trope one
character at a time! Major points on that one.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">AND THIS MOVIE IS SO <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">CAMPY</b>!
ALL THE CAMP! ALL THE BONUS POINTS!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">In sum, this movie is way better than I thought it would be upon
rewatch and I seriously recommend it since it’s up there on the queer scale.</span></div>
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<b><span style="color: black;">MVQ: </span></b><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><u1:p></u1:p>FLOOP!</span><span style="color: black;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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OTP: </span></b><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><u1:p></u1:p>Floop and one of his Thumb Thumb henchthumbs. I mean, do I
have to explain that one?</span><br />
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Favorite Moment:</span></b><span style="color: black;"> <u1:p></u1:p>When
Floop realizes the error of his ways! Also there’s an awesome surprise George
Clooney appearance that’s pretty epic.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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this week. Real old school. <i>Snow White </i>is pretty much the
first movie primarily made for kids back when movies were still talkies and
Walt Disney was just another white dude. It's been a long time since I've
watched this one and upon reviewing...I've got some thoughts (surprise surprise).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The <b>original Grimm Bros
fairytale </b>is not all that different. The biggest indiscretions are that the
evil stepmother actually enacts three ruses to kill Snow White. First tying
SW's shoe laces so tight (a bit of a stretch, I know) that it cuts off her
circulation and she faints, next by poisonous comb, and finally by the infamous
poison apple. The next difference is when she first finds the dwarves' house.
In the Grimm's version, she eats their food, drinks their wine, and sleeps in
the seventh dwarf's bed. A bit like Goldilocks. Actually, a lot like
Goldilocks. And finally, the prince doesn't wake her up from "true love's
kiss" he pretty much just picks her up and that does it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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chat about <b>Snow White</b> before we kick off our queer reading. SHE’S SO ANNOYING.
She has absolutely no agency in her life/story. The only thing she contributes
to the plot is that she’s too pretty. When she does contribute to the story all
she does is clean…And half the time she’s just being a crazy person who talks
to animals. SHE CAN’T DO ANYTHING WITHOUT HELP FROM TINY WOODLAND CREATURES!
She’s one of the least feminist characters I’ve ever encountered, and that’s
saying something.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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because there really isn’t much to go on with this movie. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><b>The Seven Little
People </b>(the PC term, btw):<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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early depictions of marginalized populations, much like the “Seven Dwarves” in
this movie can lay foundation for damaging stereotypes that take a long
loooooong time to overcome. But on the other hand, visibility is an important
step toward nuanced and thoughtful portrayals of marginalized peoples. Whatcha
gonna do? Be smart about depictions of marginalized populations. It’s that
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Probably my favorite character in the movie. I’ll tell you why. He’s
non-verbal. Not only is this characteristic incredibly endearing, I think it’s
really telling. I’m going to make a bold statement: I think Dopey is somewhere
on the Autism Spectrum. He’s probably high-functioning non-verbal. Now, this
interpretation of the character has some problems. First, his name. “Dopey,”
and the insinuation that he’s stupid/dumb is emblematic of terrible societal perspectives
of people on the Spectrum. That sucks. He’s also a used as a comic relief at
his own expense for most of the film and doesn’t have much agency. But there are
some cool things too! In my experience, kids on the Spectrum <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">love </i>Disney and animated movies (<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/09/magazine/reaching-my-autistic-son-through-disney.html" target="_blank">read this awesome article</a> about a boy on the Spectrum who understands the world
through his love of Disney sidekicks). Now this is obviously a generalization,
but I think it’s super important for a non-verbal kid on the Spectrum to see a
character like him/her in a Disney movie, particularly a character who is well loved
and cared for by those around him. And how could you say no to that face?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Interesting that the following two characters have most of the agency in the
movies. Hmmmmmm…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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makeup doe. The sculpted eyebrows? The obsession with Snow White’s feminine
beauty? That weird hood thing? I think she’s a fabulous drag queen.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I don’t
think it’s so farfetched. Ursula’s animation in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Little Mermaid</i> was actually based on the famous drag queen
Divine (more on that in a future post). So why not the Evil Stepmother? She’s
also technically a witch since she has magical powers. She also turns into a
hag at the end of the movie when she gives Snow White the infamous poison
apple. The connections between witches/hags and queer/lesbian culture go way
wayyyy back. For a modern example just look at Willow and Tara in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Buffy The Vampire Slayer</i>. If you haven’t
watched it, shame on you. Give it a quick Google. I’ll wait…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Stepmother is a drag queen with a bad case of green-eyed monster syndrome for
Snow White.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Finally, <b>The Prince.</b> He
represents the norm: male patriarchy, royal privilege, white, etc. But,
something’s a little different about his animation. He looks a little…feminine.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="http://www.buzzfeed.com/kristinchirico/the-prince-is-very-pretty#.xmGeajjlo" target="_blank">BuzzFeed</a> thinks he looks
like Liza Minnelli. I think he looks like a butch lesbian. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">So, if we take these two
ideas (Evil Stepmomma as drag queen and The Prince as a butch lesbian) we get
an interesting, nuanced look at gender struggles in the queer world. Both
characters’ motives center around Snow White and her feminine beauty, the Evil
Stepmomma is jealous of it and wants it for herself, and The Prince objectifies
it. The Evil Stepmomma dies in her pursuit and The Prince succeeds in swooping
in and saving the day with true love’s kiss. The drag queen who goes from the
masculine to the hyper feminine is doomed, while The Prince goes from feminine
to hyper masculine and wins the heart of the damsel in distress. Basically, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><b>the patriarchy wins</b></i>. Ugh. Bleh. Not a
very progressive queer message.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">MVQ: </span></b><span style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">DOPEY! I think I've
sufficiently explained my love for Dopey.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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OTP: <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">All Seven Little People.
They've gotta come out as poly. I'd read that fanfic.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Favorite Moment:</span></b><span style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I really enjoy the song
"Someday My Prince Will Come," but I hate the lyrics (and Snow
White's singing voice). I like to change the lyrics to "Someday My Butch
Will Come."<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">WATCH THE VIDEO VERSION!</span><br />
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I've rewatched it many times over the years and it just gets better and better.
So let's dig in, shall we? Warning: spoilers ahead (If you don't know the plot
of this movie I have no idea what planet you are living on or the situation of
your depraved childhood, but you've seriously gotta get on that).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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plot, characters, yada yada, first I have to get something big out of the way.
This movie is about <b>talking animals</b>, not humans. So…this presents a
complication to my queering mission. What is the difference between normative
and queer in this animal world? Well. It’s not <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">really </i>an animal world. This animal world has a lot of human additions. The whole royalty thing? Not really how lion prides work. Actually,
female lions pretty much run the pride; hunting, taking care of the cubs, defending
land, all that kinda stuff. Male lions are actually sorta helpless. Mufasa
being king of the pride, that’s plain old human patriarchal systems talking. So
if we want to define what normative is in this animal world, let’s look to the
royal family and the patriarchy that’s been constructed there. Where patriarchy
leads, heteronormativity usually follows. The first family (Mufasa, Sarabi, and Simba)
is the quintessential normative nuclear family disguised as lions. They have
yellow fur – the lion equivalent to whiteness – they are privileged as royalty,
straight, and able. And to top it off our protagonist Simba is male. That’s the normative
side of it all. Now let’s get to the queer stuff.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b>Scar</b>. HE’S NOT WHITE (yellow, whatever)! His fur color is much darker than Simba and Mufasa (maybe
he was adopted? Who knows?). It’s more of a dark reddish-brown than this world’s
normative yellow. That’s the first clue. He’s also never EVER pictured with a
lady friend. So he can’t be presumed straight. That leaves room for queerness to
swoop in and do its work. (Bonus points for intersectionality!) But poor old
Scar is a bit repressed. He’s got some hella serious gay shame going on. Represented
by the huge scar on his eye that <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">gives
him his name.</i> I don’t think it’s too far of a leap. I like to think he
got the scar from being bullied as a cub for having different colored fur, but
that’s just me. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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long line of queer villains in kids’ films. I’ll probably talk about that a lot
in these posts. In many of these cases, the queer villain trope pretty much
sucks and is more than detrimental to queer visibility. But this movie is an
exception. That’s because of Timon and Pumba.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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do I start? They’ve always given off a Bert and Ernie kinda vibe. Not to
mention the fact that Timon is voiced by out actor Nathan Lane. AND that they
are an inter-species couple (intersectionality points!). Plus, the whole hakuna
matata thing? Aka no worries aka don’t care what people say aka we’re here we’re
queer and that’s a-ok. When little Simba turns up all sad and orphaned in the
African desert left for dead by his dear gay Uncle Scar, Timon and Pumba stumble
to the rescue. They come in with their hakuna matata attitude and successfully parent
Simba from a cub to a lion. Simba has gay dads! How freakin’ cool is that?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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queer representations: Scar with his gay shame, and Timon and Pumba’s happy
coupledom. What does all this boil down to? <b>Gay shame = downward spiral ending
in death by vengeful hyenas. Gay pride = happy ending earning a spot on Pride
Rock next to your adoptive son who has successfully ascended to his rightful
throne. </b>Sounds pretty damn queer to me. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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queer):</b> Poor Scar. I’m gonna give this one to him because he deserves something
good in his sad shame-filled life. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Can’t Wait To Be King.” All time favorite Disney song. Sorry to all those “Circle
of Life” fans. Not only is it catchy, but it’s a pretty good theme song for
aimless Millennials who just can’t wait for financial stability.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02179767490730835893noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1911874287480645280.post-39306529115621806042015-03-02T04:33:00.004-08:002015-06-04T07:57:35.716-07:00Alexander Doty - Blog Inspiration<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<b>UPDATE (13/4/2015): I'm no longer using The Doty Method. I've moved toward a rating system out of 5. But Alexander Doty is still a cool dude!</b><br />
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I've created a permanent page to house this information but I thought I'd post it as well.<br />
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This is my queered version of the Bechdel Test that I am calling The Doty Method, named for the late academic Alexander Doty.<br />
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For a film to be considered queer it must...</div>
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(white, male, straight, educated, privileged, english-speaking, able)</div>
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<b>3. And question those norm vs queer positions </b></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">The queer badge of honor.</td></tr>
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<b>Alexander Doty </b></div>
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I've named my method for the late great Dr. Alexander Doty (1954-2012) a pioneering queer film theorist. In his second book, <i>Flaming Classics: Queering the Film Canon </i>he asks how stories might be understood as queer. He demonstrates this with an AWESOME queer reading of <i>The Wizard of Oz </i>"as a fantasy of a teenage girl on the road to dykedom" with Glinda representing the femme and the Wicked Witch of the West as the butch (Doty). Woah. I know, right? You should definitely give it a good read. The chapter is called "My Beautiful Wickedness." Worth it, I promise. You will never watch <i>Oz </i>the same way again. Oh, and that's where the name of the blog came from, duh.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">Auntie Em? What's a lesbian?</td></tr>
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<b>What is queer?!?</b></div>
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Queer means SO MANY DIFFERENT THINGS! Queer can be very confusing. Trust me, I would know. I'm gonna break it down for you.<br />
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"Queer" is most often associated with the LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans*) community, specifically those who fall somewhere outside the genderbinary of male/female, or are not heterosexual. <i>BUUUUUT </i>(here's where it can be tricky)<i> something that's queer isn't always LGBT.</i> In fact! Something that has LGBT content isn't inherently queer.<br />
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Queer is a much bigger umbrella term for anyone/thing/etc that is outside the pervasive norm (white, male, straight, privileged, educated, english-speaking, and able). So that means, yes, LGBT characters are usually queer, but a character who is from a lower class background (*cough* Aladdin *cough*), or is differently abled (*cough* Hunchback *cough*) could be considered queer as well. This kind of queerness outside LGBT individuals is particularly important when talking about intersectionality. While someone who identifies as LGBT might already identify as queer, someone who is female, working class, and a person of color would also be considered queer.<br />
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SO this means that I am not only looking for LGBT shenanigans in kids' entertainment, I'm also looking for different ways stories present any kind of queerness to kids. But I'll be a bit more heavy handed on the LGBT stuff, cause that's my bias.</div>
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Want further reading? There's a ton. Pick up anything in the queer theory canon. You should really start with Foucault, but he's a bit dense. I'm partial to Eve Sedgwick and Judith Butler, but I'd also recommend bell hooks (POC feminist stuff), and J. Halberstam (female masculinity). That should give you a good jumping off point.</div>
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