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Record W7162629877 · doi:10.59236/emro.v24i8a7835

Grey Area

2022· article· W7162629877 on OpenAlex
Jarvis Sparks

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Bibliographic record

VenueEducational Media Reviews Online · 2022
Typearticle
Language
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicGender Roles and Identity Studies
Canadian institutionsLangara College
Fundersnot available
KeywordsNarrativeTransphobiaMainstreamPower (physics)Social constructionism

Abstract

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Distributed by Good DocsProduced by Laura M. Blair, Keagan Anfuso, Drew L. Brown, Ray Wood, and Anja CrowsbyDirected by Keagan Anfuso and Drew L. Brown2021, Streaming, 35 mins Using diverse personal narratives, The Grey Area explores societal response to masculine women and their breaking of gender norms. The film centers on the experiences of its director – Keagan Anfuso – using incidents throughout her life to show how gender norms are constructed and enforced, as well as the damaging consequences of homophobia and transphobia for masculine women. It weaves in the narratives of several other women in the form of a discussion group in which they describe experiences of rejection, discrimination, misunderstanding and violence that they have faced as women who are perceived, in one way or another, as being too masculine. This film demonstrates the power of personal narrative to create understanding of broader social issues. In relating her experiences, Anfuso begins by discussing different areas of childhood in which gender differences are created and enforced by both adults and children – clothes, toys, appearance, and behavior. She explicitly names and explains societal assumptions that are made about masculine women and connects the firsthand experiences of herself and others to broader issues viewers may have encountered in the news or their own lives, in a way that is both affecting and easy to understand. She and the discussion group participants describe negative experiences they have had due to how mainstream society, their families, and their communities have reacted to their masculinity. The flashback sequences throughout the film have a theatrical quality in contrast to the clean approach of the discussion group scenes that is at times jarring. Nevertheless, this use of life experiences to illustrate the concepts being discussed is effective, especially in the discussion group scenes, where even the physical layout of the scenes – the women sitting together in a circle - serves as a visual cue to connect their shared experiences together. Anfuso ends the film by stating - “I feel proud to be a woman in the grey area”, bringing viewers back to one of the central themes of the film – the importance of being your authentic self, regardless of how others respond to you. While this title focuses on the experiences of masculine women, it also presents a valuable perspective for a broader discussion of gender and discrimination in a women’s studies, LGBT studies, or sociological context. The well-structured approach of the film makes it engaging and accessible to a broad range of audiences. Awards:Best Documentary Short, OUT at the Movies International Film Fest; Best Short Documentary, Jacksonville Film Festival; Best Documentary Short, Through Women's Eyes International Film Festival; Semi-Finalist, Documentary Short - San Francisco Indie Short Festival

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Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.002
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.002
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMeta-epidemiology (narrow), Science and technology studies, Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: Not applicable
GenreCandidate signal: Review · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.601
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0020.002
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.001
Science and technology studies0.0020.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0010.000
Research integrity0.0000.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0170.001

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.114
GPT teacher head0.375
Teacher spread0.261 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it