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In the movie Cusp, we were introduced to Alice and her usual everyday life. She has being giving ways of how to perform gender through life by, her mother, the neighbor, and her friends at school. Her mother tells her she need to be the second adult to take responsibilities in the house hold chores too, because her mom cannot do it all by herself. Her neighbor and her friend on the other hand tell her she needs to put on makeup and dress up to attract men.

For me I think Alice is confused on how to perform gender the way she would feel comfortable of performing it. Power also performed in Alice life a lot too. When her teacher was taking questions in class, the teacher didn’t even bother to see that the girls’ hands were up; because the boys were shouting out the number they wanted to be answered out loud. When the neighbor and her boyfriend had broken up, Alice see that guys can do what ever they wish to do to a lady. When her friend Eliza didn’t want to be friends with her anymore because she wanted to be cool like the popular girls then being with her who is un-cool.

Alice’s faced many frustrations through the “limits� of doing things in her life which are, chores responsibilities, her confrontation with the kung fu boy and watching men taking advantage of women. For example her dad who had left her mom and her neighbor’s ex-boyfriend.

At the end Alice realize that a way to performed gender is through power.