Riot Act
For the second documentary in the series that we watched last week was “Riot Act”. “Riot Act” is a documentary about transgendered bands or members of a band being transgender. I found it very informative. I had never known there were bands out there that consisted of all transgender people. I mean, why not? I just never thought of it. But everyone can form bands, it doesn’t matter your gender, sexuality, etc, it just matters if you can play some instruments or sing a few songs.
I remember a part in the documentary where a lot of the people talked about how they felt about how they are perceived and also how they like it. It was also discussed how others perceived them. I found it interesting that some of them were worried about how they would sound if they took hormones, etc. I guess it could change their voice from a male, deep sounding voice to a high pitched female voice or vice versa. Or if I remember right it could even ruin their voice?
This documentary relates to our course this semester because, for one, we have been talking about our master status. And people who are transgender, which is their master status. Regardless when someone looks at them, or talks to them etc, they first notice that they are transgender. Secondly the entire course is about being deviant and people who are transgender are looked at as deviant. They are not white, male, straight, etc so they are looked at as different, deviant. Thirdly, we just got done talking about deviant bodies and transgender people have a deviant body. They don’t look like a typical male or female (sometimes they do).
I look forward to the last two videos that we are going to be watching. These first two have been very informative and awesome to watch.
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