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Egbatan, Mine. “Paris is Burning: A Critique of Gender.” Fe Dergi: Feminist Eleştiri. (2011): 16-21. Web. 18 November 2013.
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This makes drags significant in understanding their potential in changing dominant cultural norms based on the assumption that sex is always already gender.
He is male biologically but this does not prevent him from teaching how to model to other women, which shows that biology is not destiny and gender is just performance.
Being real is equated with conforming to what is dictated as right in society, in the film it is mostly conforming to heterosexual norms.
Wanting to look like what they are not in real life is important to understand how they desire to conform to the norms of heterosexuality.
He is male biologically but this does not prevent him from teaching how to model to other women, which shows that biology is not destiny and gender is just performance.
Being real is equated with conforming to what is dictated as right in society, in the film it is mostly conforming to heterosexual norms.
Wanting to look like what they are not in real life is important to understand how they desire to conform to the norms of heterosexuality.
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