An up-close and personal encounter with this influential philosopher and…
Man for a Day
 
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Performance artist and gender activist Diane Torr has appeared on stages around the world as a drag king, performing male characters inspired by philosopher Judith Butler's theories of gender performativity. Now she holds workshops for other women in which they develop their own male characters and live as men for a day in an attempt to better understand the dynamics of gender in contemporary society.
MAN FOR A DAY brings us inside Torr's workshop in Berlin. The artist guides a group of open-minded women from diverse backgrounds-an Angolan single mother, an Israeli lesbian, a young German beauty queen, among others-through the theoretical underpinnings of her work, and helps them develop male characters of their own.
Insisting that each participant ground her character in observation, Torr takes them out to the streets of the city to watch men, noting their gestures, their gait, and their sense of ownership of the world they walk through. From these models, the women develop personas for their own characters.
Torr then helps them transform themselves: adopting the gestures and physicalities they observed, locating appropriate clothing, and concocting a voice for the character. The women then venture out into the world, travelling among strangers in public spaces, and visiting their own families, as men.
A practical, hands-on exploration of some of the key theories in gender studies, MAN FOR A DAY is an investigation, as serious as it is playful, of how masculinity and femininity are constituted today.
“Touching!” —Der Spiegel
“Provokes new questions about the way men and women interact even in societies that aspire to full equality.” —The Hollywood Reporter
“Candid and humorous!” —Diva Magazine
“Man for a Day brings us inside Torr’s workshop in Berlin as she guides women through the theoretical underpinnings of her work.” —Artforum
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Main credits
								Peters, Katarina (Screenwriter)
Peters, Katarina (Director)
Peters, Katarina (Producer)
Torr, Diane (Host)
Torr, Diane (Performer)
Schönborn, Susann (Performer)
Torhorst, Eva-Marie (Performer)
Schade, Jan Tilman (Composer)
Gut, Gudrun (Composer)
Freyer, Ben (Composer)
							
Other credits
Cinematography, Inga Knölke; editor, Burkhard Althoff; music, Jan Tilman Schade, Gudrun Gut, Ben Freyer.
Distributor subjects
Art; Cultural Studies; Family Relations; Germany; Human Sexuality; Psychology; Sex and Sexuality; Women's StudiesKeywords
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 Good evening, gentlemen, walked
 into the American Society of Man.
 
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 The American Society of Man was established
 in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania in 1989,
 
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 as an organization that
 would protect and preserve
 
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 the rights and privileges of men.
 
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 Now these aren’t any ordinary
 rights and privileges.
 
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 These are God ordained.
 
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 (inaudible) about the half of the
 American society of men to train you,
 
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 and how to gain and
 retain respect as a man.
 
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 I just want to say that this week, it’s
 going to be such an exciting week.
 
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 And I’m in sort of a joy
 that you could all come.
 
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 Eventually, it’s happening
 and I’m (inaudible). And
 
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 this workshop, I started
 teaching in New York in 1989,
 
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 and the workshop is not
 about becoming a man
 
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 instead of becoming a woman,
 
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 it is really about becoming more.
 
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 And… and therefore it will be empowering for
 you because you will have more options.
 
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 Okay, maybe some of you
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 thinking how is this going to happens,
 
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 because we all look so female, no.
 
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 But I would just like to say that the whole construction
 of identity is something which is it’s created,
 
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 it’s not something that happens
 naturally, whatever naturally is. Umm…
 
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 So just as we are constructed as women,
 
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 we could also be constructed as men.
 
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 Do you have any quills(ph), do you
 know what you’re going to be?
 
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 Are you just, so just go
 and try some things up.
 
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 I like people to make their own decisions about
 kind of male clothes that they want to choose
 
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 because that triggers something
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 about the possibility to be more.
 
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 I’m a fashion designer. I have done
 menswear for quite a long time. And
 
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 myself as a man is an idea that I have had
 before, but I’ve never really practiced it.
 
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 Some people think I’m very tough.
 
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 Somehow… somehow they get
 certain idea about me
 
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 which has nothing to do with why. I mean, it always makes me
 laugh because they see me, and they look like I can, yeah,
 
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 if I’m in a tough looking day,
 I can be very, very tough that
 
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 I’m such a sissy.
 
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 But some people reading between
 the lines like my partner
 
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 who looked into my eyes. And
 
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 she got the answers from there.
 
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 She was reading the advertisements. And she
 said, \"Oh, this is so you. This is so you.\"
 
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 And I thought to myself, there is something
 about it that is really mean. I mean
 
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 the times that I want to look very
 feminine, I look like a drag queen.
 
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 And… and I mean somehow
 it’s like really extreme,
 
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 very aesthetic as well. Umm…
 
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 On the other hand, I have this morning’s that I
 would like to look more masculine I like the…
 
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 I think it’s really sexy somehow.
 
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 It’s great. You need to think about…
 
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 I like the jacket. Try it on.
 
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 When you changed into the men’s clothes,
 
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 you looked at yourself in the mirror.
 And you think, \"Who am I?\"
 
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 (inaudible). And then when
 you go on the street,
 
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 you look to see if you find this man,
 
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 you can maybe recognize him in the way that he is
 walking or the way he’s buying something in the shop,
 
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 or the way he’s drinking a coffee or smoking a
 cigarette, you can say, \"Oh, this is my man.\"
 
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 This is your detective work really.
 You all have to be detectives in…
 
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 in finding your man and in how you take
 
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 the character, take him onto
 yourself and become him.
 
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 Man required an easy spectacle
 
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 because they’re not used to being watched.
 Uh… They’re used to being spectator.
 
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 So if it’s there a good study, you
 know, it’s… it’s easy to study men.
 
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 I love observing people, seeing
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 that I can pick up and
 
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 use in the creation of some new character.
 
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 You know, I don’t use the stuff
 disrespectfully, it’s just material
 
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 just like somebody who’s a painter or who’ll
 be looking at a color or looking at a shape
 
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 that they could include in a painting,
 
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 just as being a woman is about a
 performance, being a man is a performance.
 
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 Gender is something, it’s just
 a repeated series of gestures.
 
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 It’s good? Yeah.
 
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 Okay, so now is the arts and crafts
 part of the workshop, when we
 
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 all get to make our own penis and really you need
 to decide how big your penis is going to be.
 
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 There is a condom here which I have used,
 
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 and then you fill this up with cotton wool,
 
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 that’s the penis. Okay.
 
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 Okay, this is the little bump that you have
 
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 which makes me a man. Okay, now I’ll
 demonstrate the breast binding.
 
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 You want to cover the…
 the nipples first here.
 
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 And if you could, maybe hold this for me.
 
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 Then when you start going around,
 and it should be quite tight,
 
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 but not so tight that you can’t breathe.
 Keep going.
 
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 Voila!
 
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 The breasts have disappeared, where
 did they go? Right, oh, yeah.
 
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 My God!
 
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 I just wanna to tell you, we all look really good. There are some
 very basic things you need to learn before you go homeless man,
 
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 because people will look at you like who is this
 person. So you need to learn some behaviors.
 
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 And umm… the first thing I’d say is that
 
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 you need to learn not to smile. Men generally
 they don’t smile unless as a need to smile. I…
 
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 I know how this man smiles.
 You know, he’s a semi smiler.
 
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 Oh, okay, very good session.
 
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 I think when they go out in the
 street for the first time as men,
 
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 it’s in that situation that they find out what they don’t
 know if you like and what they need to figure out.
 
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 I was playing around with ideas of
 gender throughout the ‘80s. And in 1989,
 
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 I was invited by Annie Sprinkle who wanted to use
 images of me transforming from female to male
 
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 in a photo shoot that she was doing.
 
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 I had an appointment to
 go to the Whitney Museum
 
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 to the opening of the biennial, and the
 photo shoot just took so long that
 
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 I had to leave in drag and
 go to the museum and drag.
 
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 And that’s when I discovered that the world
 really does treat you differently as a man
 
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 for the first time, I was amazed
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 suddenly parted and allowed
 me to walk through
 
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 and that never happens as a woman.
 You’re, you know,
 
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 walking along the street of Manhattan, you’re
 always stepping aside to let a man go past.
 
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 But certainly for myself, I discovered
 
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 that I could pass as a man.
 
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 And it was through this experience that I realized it could be very
 interesting if women had this possibility to see themselves as men.
 
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 What kind of a man (inaudible)
 you know, do you have an idea?
 
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 Okay.
 
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 That sounds good. Good
 place to start anyway.
 
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 So when you walk, you have a feeling that your
 foot owns that piece of floor underneath it.
 
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 This is uh… this idea of ownership
 
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 is very much included in a male identity,
 
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 a sense of ownership and umm…
 
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 positioning yourself having uh…
 
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 I own this piece of floor for the
 minute it rests. My foot rests there.
 
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 Men tend to have a lot of their
 
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 energy focused on the
 upper part of the body.
 
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 Often their hips are really tight and held,
 
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 but the upper body is where
 most of the strength is.
 
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 Everything you do from now on is as a
 man, okay? So if you move the chair,
 
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 then you’re going to move the chair as a man
 would move the chair. So I might imagine
 
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 that my whole shoulder girdle
 has all kinds of little
 
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 sacks of sand in them.
 
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 It’s a sense of owning this chair.
 I own the chair
 
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 and that will give a sense
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 body that I don’t normally have.
 
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 His gestures, clear,
 defined, specific, forceful.
 
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 He meant what he said, a man of power.
 
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 And when he moved his eyes, his
 eyes only moved with his head.
 
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 So when he looked to the left,
 his eyes moved with his head.
 
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 And when he look to the right,
 his eyes moved with his head.
 
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 And when he looked up,
 
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 his eyes moved with his head.
 
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 And when he looked down, his
 eyes moved with his head.
 
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 Never move your eyes independently with that,
 you just need to know shifting is a character
 
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 and will not confer you
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 as men is wrong.
 
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 I perform Danny King who is a composite
 
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 of male stereotypes.
 
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 It’s not like I want to be that man, but I, you
 know, I think that you can subvert their authority
 
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 because I’m not really him. (inaudible).
 
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 You know I’m a woman,
 and I’m performing him.
 
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 Danny King specially runs the
 workshop because he represents
 
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 a man who believes in the
 innate superiority of men.
 
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 And therefore his behavior and
 his body language reflects that,
 
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 and this gives…
 
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 Because he’s so extreme, because that when we who do the
 workshop a sense that even this extreme is possible.
 
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 He’s an anachronism, but at the same
 time he’s still with us, you know.
 
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 Look around any company
 
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 where you have man in charge,
 you’ll find Danny King.
 
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 Hi, I’m Danny King, very good
 to see you guys here today.
 
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 I’m coming from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
 I’m married. I’ve got three kids.
 
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 My wife pretty much takes care of the kids.
 And I… I look after them, you know,
 
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 Saturday, I might take
 the kids to the park.
 
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 My wife, she gets a break, you know,
 she gets to sleep in. I’ll make them
 
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 some pancakes for breakfast.
 
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 Uh… My name is Marco, I’m 35.
 I came to Berlin
 
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 because the Israel was always
 too small somehow. And
 
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 I’m homosexual, not in a
 relationship, I enjoy life.
 
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 We’re gonna send our voices to the center of
 the Earth, that’s the idea as we do this.
 
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 Uh…
 
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 Uh… Uh… Uh…
 
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 I think the women really need to practice this. They need
 to practice having a loud voice and stop being ashamed.
 
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 It’s something that they had no
 problem with when they were babies
 
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 to have a loud voice. And
 then now that they’re adults
 
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 uh… they whimper.
 
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 [sil.]
 
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 This is really a great martial art
 for women in this system because
 
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 you… you… if you have a loud voice, you can catch
 you’re opponent, somebody who’s attacking you.
 
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 You can catch them off guard.
 I think that if…
 
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 if you’re going to play
 this guy Ramos, then
 
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 give yourself the chance to have somebody with
 that loud voice so that you can… Practice that.
 
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 Arsehole.
 
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 [sil.]
 
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 This idea of self-defense
 of how to how to umm…
 
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 how to protect myself was something
 that I learned very early on to be
 
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 very observant of male behavior.
 
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 Growing up with a father who
 then became an alcoholic,
 
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 and he was also quite violent. He
 would have these blackout periods
 
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 where he would be lashing out at us, and then
 later on he wouldn’t remember anything about it.
 
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 And it was terrifying to
 live with a man like that.
 
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 And I could feel the glue
 
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 whenever he was around. I
 knew when he was home.
 
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 Ultimately that experience was the
 
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 beginning of an exploration if
 you like that I’ve continued.
 
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 [sil.]
 
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 [sil.]
 
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 My expectation was \"Oh, as a
 man, and I’m free. I’m strong.\"
 
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 And I experienced, \"Oh,
 as this man I’m not.
 
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 So did you, I mean continued
 with your observations.
 
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 Okay, well…
 
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 To create another character, needs to (inaudible) observation
 because otherwise you’re just a woman with men’s makeup on, and
 
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 what purpose does that serve, you know?
 
 00:40:40.000 --> 00:40:44.999
 I don’t really want to stay in that character
 so long because I find it very uh… exhausting.
 
 00:40:45.000 --> 00:40:49.999
 And they don’t really
 like this guy so much.
 
 00:40:50.000 --> 00:40:54.999
 I don’t like man, I am either, but part of the process
 of becoming a man is to get rid of all your female
 
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 distinctions, your judgments
 that you have as a woman
 
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 and take on a male persona which often is… is… No, I
 don’t the way that I’ve here is this guy Danny King,
 
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 it’s not how I behave as a woman.
 
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 And as a woman, I… I would probably not even spent any
 time with this guy. But part of this process is to really
 
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 separate yourself from who you are as a
 woman and become somebody else completely.
 
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 [sil.]
 
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 [music]
 
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 It’s not really about being
 the best man if you like.
 
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 It really is about being able
 to get out of the women role.
 
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 For a lot of women, this is very hard.
 
 00:42:35.000 --> 00:42:39.999
 I mean the reality is that
 everything is visible.
 
 00:42:40.000 --> 00:42:44.999
 So if you have bracelets that are female
 than people will notice that for instance.
 
 00:42:45.000 --> 00:42:50.000
 And if you have female fingernails
 that becomes clear as well.
 
 00:43:10.000 --> 00:43:14.999
 Okay, keep going.
 
 00:43:15.000 --> 00:43:20.000
 [sil.]
 
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 [sil.]
 
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 I believed this character. I believe him.
 
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 And… and this whole thing of uh… being so thankful to
 everybody that we invited you and then speaking personally
 
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 blah, blah, blah. It’s…
 it’s idiotic somehow.
 
 00:44:15.000 --> 00:44:19.999
 You do some things like that men do which is
 sort of lifting up the heels, letting them drop,
 
 00:44:20.000 --> 00:44:24.999
 and it sort of emphasizes. I’m
 here, you know. I’m important.
 
 00:44:25.000 --> 00:44:29.999
 And that’s part of the male gender.
 
 00:44:30.000 --> 00:44:34.999
 Self-satisfied. Sure.
 
 00:44:35.000 --> 00:44:39.999
 It is about you inheriting
 this idea of significance
 
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 which as a woman is very
 difficult to achieve.
 
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 [sil.]
 
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 [sil.]
 
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 [sil.]
 
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 [sil.]
 
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 [sil.]
 
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 [music]
 
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 [non-English narration]
 
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 [music]
 
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 [music]
 
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 [music]
 
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 [music]
 
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 [music]
 
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 [sil.]
 
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 [sil.]
 
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 [sil.]
 
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 [sil.]
 
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 Hi. Hi.
 
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 Hello.
 
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 I’m embarrassing him.
 
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 [sil.]
 
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 [sil.]
 
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 [sil.]
 
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 [sil.]
 
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 [music]
 
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 [music]
 
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 [music]
 
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 [music]
 
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 [music]
 
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 [music]
 
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 [music]
 
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 [music]
 
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 [music]
 
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 [music]
 
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 [music]
 
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 [non-English narration]
 
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 [music]
Distributor: First Hand Films
Length: 59 minutes
Date: 2012
Genre: Expository
Language: German; English; Hebrew
Grade: 9-12, COLLEGE, ADULT
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