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 First off, I would like to say this a very beautiful assignment to complete. Gender is the range of characteristics pertaining to and differentiating between, masculinity and femininity. Not all females want to dress like a girly girl and not all males want to dress masculine. In the video with Judith Butler, it shows the difference between what performed and performative gender is. Performed means gender is there before the performance and performative means that gender is the performance itself. Gender won’t exist until it is performed. Judith Butler stated a good point she states that “Think about how sissy boys or tomboys have to functions around others”. To me, she made a point by saying that because sissy boys are going to be called gay because of how they may dress. People see that it is more feminine clothes so of course others will assume their sexuality. Tomboys are going to get asked if they are lesbian because of how masculine they may be dressed. In this society today if your behavior contradicts your gender you may expect some problems or consequences along the way. You don’t have to wear skirts just because you’re a girl because personally, I know a lot of girls who really don’t like wearing skirts and rather wear some shorts or jeans. The moral of the story everyone is different, and everyone will forever have their own opinions. Watching the music video “How Do You Sleep?” by Sam Smith brought more common sense to gender. The ideas and values that are conveyed by this video are that it is better to be comfortable with what you are. No matter your sexuality, race, or gender you should accept the way you are. Sam Smith says in How Do You Sleep, “I’m done hating myself for feeling, I’m done crying myself awake, I’ve gotta leave and start healing”. To me, this means to start accepting the person you have become in life and embracing it. The effect that the setting has is that it shows how embracing and accepting the video is. When the beat drops and all the men start dancing it gives a more powerful stand. To me, the dance is used to show more emotion throughout the choreography. The angles are used to show everyone, the dancing really shows out to me there is a lot of good emotions that flow with the music. One-shot that showed out is when Sam Smith was being carried by the man. It was like a figure of speech trying to get through a message saying people can pick up other people. The gender that is represented in this music video is men, but most likely opinions will be given that these men are about the LGBTQ community. All of this goes back to Judith Butler’s theory about gender performance. Bulter states something in others,” a woman asked if I was a lesbian because of the way I had dressed and when I told her no, she was obviously shocked”. This whole topic goes back to the was prejudice. Prejudice is an opinion that is not based on reason or actual experience. Any topic could have prejudice like race, culture, and sexuality. The singer is made to seem like a star because Sam Smith is a part of the LGBTQ community and this video, it shows that he is comfortable expressing that to the world now. A while ago Sam Smith did come out as gay it is just now nice to see that he is accepting himself. Throughout this whole lesson gender, sexuality, culture, and race will always have an opinion but we must learn how to pick ourselves up and accept who we are.

 

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