Synopsis
Democracy isn’t a spectator sport.
In an unusual experiment, a thousand 17-year-old boys from Texas join together to build a representative government from the ground up.
2020 Directed by Jesse Moss, Amanda McBaine
In an unusual experiment, a thousand 17-year-old boys from Texas join together to build a representative government from the ground up.
Boys State : le programme, ממשלת הבוגרים, Fiúállam, ボーイズ・ステイト, '보이즈 스테이트' - Boys State, Молодые политики, Những Chính Trị Gia Trẻ Tuổi, 少年邦, 新世代公民
GUYS!! I can now say that I have been featured in an A24 film. Wow, never thought I would say that. For those that have already seen the film, I am the kid that goes up to the stand and proposes that we relocate all Prius drivers to the state of Oklahoma. Wow, what a clip to be remembered by.
But in all seriousness, here is a review of Boys State from someone who actually attended 2018 Texas Boys State.
For the past two years, ever since I attended boys state, I have tried to explain to people what it was like to be there. I tried to explain what the people were like and what the atmosphere was like.…
“Ugh, I hate high school boys” - me posting a review to my audience of mostly high school boys
that ben shapiro wannabe losing his voice after one day of campaigning.. i have to laugh
the only person we do stan is rené, who was quietly listening to one of the forums, eating his planters peanuts, and wearing his tiny glasses on the end of his nose while looking like he’s already served on the supreme court for 30 years. which seems about right bc i imagine being a supreme court justice is about the same level of stress as spending a week with these little conservative boys yelling at each other
You can tell René is going places simply from the fact that he had a gallon of water on him at all times and you know the other boys did not drink a single glass of water in the entire week
if you’re proud to be an american in 2020 please keep that shit to yourself it’s embarrassing
Rewatched for the podcast. What I kept thinking about, as I watched these boys fold politics into displays of unfettered masculinity, is the issue of reproductive rights. Such decisions get made easily and thoughtlessly without women in the room.