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[Trigger Warning: cissexism, bullying, strong gender binarism]
Found a really striking music video on tumblr called "Little Game" by BENNY. One of my friends posted this on hir tumblr and I was totally floored: http://youtu.be/WNr3x1kVVEc

I can't believe that an artist who's only 15 years old was able to create a video that has such powerful visuals about the gender binary and gender roles!

This is AWESOME! The imagery is REALLY powerful, if Benny directed this himself he has some really seriously excellent artistic vision and execution. I love seeing young adults finding creative ways to question and break down societal structures that they're told to just take for granted.

I love that video - and the song too, played it far too many times when I first found it :p . And the comments, last time I looked, are pretty amazing too.

This song is amazing, both in what it portrays and the comments below it. It is truly astonishing how well it frames events, and how the people's responses on a semi-anonymous place seem. The idea of the water glass and even the fish in the same space but differently colored really resonates.

Wow. The song is spectacular! The visual presentation of gender is very stark!

In contrast to the above posters, I actually do not see the video as "breaking down societal structures", but as a creative expression of bullying behavior against non-conforming individuals that do not fit in their assigned gender roles. This does not necessarily mean that present gender roles must be torn down, but the tendency to work within a rigid framework (as opposed to being flexible) is not always feasible. I can go on forever talking about the importance of gender roles and why I am cis-gender and cis-sexual, but I won't, because that would be off-topic here.

It also might not be so appropriate unless what you wanted to talk about is why they are personally important to you: our readership here is highly diverse, and includes many users who are intersex, transgender or gender non-conforming, so we need folks to be sure and talk about these issues bearing that diversity in mind.

Heather wrote:It also might not be so appropriate unless what you wanted to talk about is why they are personally important to you: our readership here is highly diverse, and includes many users who are intersex, transgender or gender non-conforming, so we need folks to be sure and talk about these issues bearing that diversity in mind.

Nah, it's too off-topic.

Awesome video and song! That's too cool that a 15 year old created that!