Gender Troubles: The Butches | movie | 2016 | Official Trailer
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00:00 [music]
00:16 You're trying to survive and move through a world that's really giving you constant messages that there's a normal way, there's a proper way for you to show up being female.
00:29 And if you don't show up that way, there are consequences.
00:33 My mother, she knows who I am and knew who I was and also I think thought I might grow out of being a tomboy.
00:41 I definitely grew into it and you know, sometimes tomboys grow up to be big bull daggers and that was me.
00:48 I'm worried about how my students perceive me on the first day of class, where they can't figure me out or where they're like,
00:57 "Oh, sir, I mean, ma'am, I mean, I hate that, that's so awkward."
01:03 And I hear my father say, "Those women are disgusting. Women like that just want to be men."
01:10 I was thinking, "Does he not get me? Does he not see who I am? Or was that some kind of warning? I don't know."
01:19 I feel nervous at work, like in my own workplace, trying to use the restroom.
01:26 Having someone call you a name because they're putting something on you and they're putting their shame, the guilt, the nastiness,
01:36 all of that into that word, "bull dagger." It's a nasty word. It's a bad word.
01:42 But if I say, "I'm a bull dagger," you have no power over me.
01:46 [Music]
01:56 [Silence]