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I chose to do my response paper on the movie Boys Don’t Cry. I spent a lot of time thinking of what I could do that would be interesting to both you and me when this movie came on TV. I recorded it and watched it three times over the next two days. This movie makes many bold statements about gender vs. sex and poses a lot of questions for the viewer to think on long after the credits roll. The comfortable boundaries of gender and sex are pushed to their limits. Watching this movie, you can feel yourself in each characters shoes, even when you don’t agree with anything that character stands for. I’d like to give a brief overview while avoiding going into details quite yet. I’ll fill in more details and opinions following this summary. This movie is based on the true story of Teena Brandon. Teena, a lonely girl who would rather be a boy, cuts her hair and sticks a sock down her jeans. She then moves away from everyone who knows him. He meets another group of young men and women who would probably be described as “trailer trash”. Teena Brandon is now Brandon Teena. Brandon tried to learn how to be a man from his friends John and Tom and begins to date Lana. He tries to fit in by getting into fights, drinki