Comments on: Intersexuality – XXY http://www.blacklooks.org/2008/12/intersexuality_-_xxy.html Fri, 12 Mar 2010 23:43:54 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Soirore http://www.blacklooks.org/2008/12/intersexuality_-_xxy.html#comment-114066 Soirore Tue, 16 Dec 2008 13:18:25 +0000 http://www.blacklooks.org/2008/12/intersexuality_-_xxy.html#comment-114066 For me the film's focus was Alex's father's feelings about her* situation and how her* becoming a man was preferable to becoming a woman. I was disappointed that masculine perspectives were given preference throughout which undermined the whole issue of growing up intersex. The shop assistant's perspective further adds to this. What the film showed was that if Alex did nothing (ie not take hormones) then she* would become more masculine. It's as if the default for people were male and any degree of femaleness has to be learned, practiced and demonstrated to be valid. I don't think this is a trans friendly or female friendly film really. Alex was treated badly by a paranoid society and the character was treated badly by the script. *I use her because at the time she identifies as a girl For me the film’s focus was Alex’s father’s feelings about her* situation and how her* becoming a man was preferable to becoming a woman.
I was disappointed that masculine perspectives were given preference throughout which undermined the whole issue of growing up intersex. The shop assistant’s perspective further adds to this. What the film showed was that if Alex did nothing (ie not take hormones) then she* would become more masculine. It’s as if the default for people were male and any degree of femaleness has to be learned, practiced and demonstrated to be valid. I don’t think this is a trans friendly or female friendly film really.
Alex was treated badly by a paranoid society and the character was treated badly by the script.

*I use her because at the time she identifies as a girl

]]> By: The F-Word Blog http://www.blacklooks.org/2008/12/intersexuality_-_xxy.html#comment-114060 The F-Word Blog Tue, 16 Dec 2008 11:18:22 +0000 http://www.blacklooks.org/2008/12/intersexuality_-_xxy.html#comment-114060 <strong>Intersexuality - XXY...</strong> In XXY, a film from Argentina, Alex, the film’s protagonist, is a 14 year old intersex child who comes face to face with society’s prejudice.1 The close knit community of this small fishing village is populated by people this child would ha... Intersexuality – XXY…

In XXY, a film from Argentina, Alex, the film’s protagonist, is a 14 year old intersex child who comes face to face with society’s prejudice.1 The close knit community of this small fishing village is populated by people this child would ha…

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