Extra Credit 3

Orchid

The third documentary in this film serious was called “Orchid.” I really liked this documentary actually. There was a lot that I liked about it, but one main thing was that the sisters did it themselves. They didn’t get some high tech, high paying, video team to do it, they did it themselves which I thought was really good and really creative.

This documentary was about intersex sisters that wanted to get out there and tell everyone about their disease. Their parents made them hide it the whole entire time they were growing up. There was even a time that they didn’t know each other had it. They had a middle sister that doesn’t have AIS but has the genes to possibly pass it on to her kids. At first their parents, especially their mom, would not participate in the documentary. She didn’t like the fact that the sisters were not hiding it anymore. But then one day she received a letter saying that she was ready to tell her side of the story. So the documentary goes on and they travel around Australia. They meet up with someone else that is intersex as well, just a different type of it. They end up going into a thrift store and the clerk was asking questions of why they were filming, etc. Phoebe was a little hesitant to tell, but she said that was the whole reason why she was doing this documentary was because she wanted her story out there. They ended up meeting up with two of their friends that had met years ago that are both intersex as well. She met them online when she was looking for other people like her.

She has a husband that loves her dearly. But they had to come to the realization that they could not have kids of their own because of her AIS. They went through the process of adoption and after the long and hard process got adopted and at the end of the documentary they had their little girl.

This documentary relates to class in a few different ways. Also in some of the same ways I have talked about in my previous extra credit papers. But one way is that we talked about deviant bodies. And as sometimes it is really hard to tell if someone is intersex, other times it’s not. So we look at these people as deviant because they do not look like every other man and women. Also, this is their master status. We don’t look at anything else except the fact that they are intersex. They are different than the typical white, male, etc etc. I also found it interesting when the husband mentioned that when he found out about her AIS, he thought that maybe he was gay. Or did this mean that he was gay. But he didn’t sound like it would have been a bad thing if he was. But at the same time for him to even think of that means that maybe he was like “Oh no, I may be different then everyone else.”

All in all, I really liked this documentary and I am looking forward to the last one in the serious next Thursday!