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g and distorted. Righteous dismissal does not make the stereotypes go away, and tends to prevent us from understanding just what stereotypes are, how they function, ideologically and aesthetically, and why they are so resilient in the face of enlightened rejection.

How does society get an understanding of its various gender groups, in fiction as in life? Society gets its information partly from what other people tell them, and in film, from narrators and from the thoughts of the characters, but most knowledge about homosexuals is based on the evidence in front of them: what they do, how they do it, what they say and how the

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