After watching "The Years of the Dog Face", the most impressive thing is the director's description of children. Many of the plots are very similar to my own personal experience, so I was particularly touched by some of the plot arrangements in the film, especially the plot settings of the little girl trying to hide her identity as a girl.
Exclusion or even trying to cover up their female identity may be the behavior of every girl who grows up in the group of boys. In other words, children who grow up with heterosexual partners will have some troubles and discomfort when they begin to develop gender awareness. I have been a music student since I was a child, and I have to participate in rehearsal in the orchestra. There are more boys in Western orchestras, so many of the playmates around him in childhood were boys, and there were many fights with boys in childhood. Parents always say "how wild like a boy".
Before puberty, although I knew that boys and girls were different, I didn't have a clear understanding of gender, and getting along with boys was very natural and relaxed. However, in the upper grades of primary school, with the advent of puberty, the sense of difference between boys and girls becomes more and more obvious. On the one hand, it comes from changes in the body, and on the other hand, it is more constantly prompted by the external environment.
Age is often the criterion for judging whether a person is "appropriate" or "inappropriate" to do something. For example, when people see an image of two young children kissing, they think it is cute, but if the same scene is placed on an 11- or 12-year-old child, parents will start to worry. Therefore, there will always be people around this age group reminding "now that I can't do anything with boys when I grow up." At this stage, the consciousness of "gender and receptacle inseparable" begins to form.
And "men and women are not married" is a socialized concept, and children do not have this awareness before they are "shaped". Just like the little girl in the play, she shows the little boy her developing breasts without any scruples, and the boy helps her "hide" her breasts, everything is natural. When I was young, I also felt that physical contact with boys, sleeping in a bed, etc. was natural, but all of a sudden, everyone told you that it was not allowed, and there was a clear "cognitive dissonance". For girls who are surrounded by heterosexual playmates, "how do I get along with boys" has become a troubling question. Sometimes I can't help but think, "If only I were a boy, I wouldn't have to be so troublesome." But this kind of thinking just stays on the ideological level for me, and doesn't cover myself like the little girl in the play. gender into action.
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