Ch 7 Blog Post #3

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKZ9um4SRnA

Above is a link to a movie that is a family favorite, Too Wong Foo. This is a story about men in drag and how they change the lives of people in a small town they stop in. Chapter 7 states that your appearance and artifacts helps express your gender identity and helps others put you in a group and develops expectations a s a result. When these men arrived in a small town, they were all decked out in their woman attire complete with suitcases of clothes, shoes, makeup etc. Obviously the people of this town had no idea what to make of them and had seen nothing like it. They were skeptical. Many of them actually thought they were woman. They dressed differently than the woman in the town. They wore more expensive looking clothes with vibrant colors and jewelry. The townspeople didn't know what to make of them and just thought they were women from the city (which they were) that were going to wreak havoc on their sleepy town. But, they actually helped the lives of many of the women in the town.