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- From: "Amy Young Leith" <alyoung@kiwi.ucs.indiana.edu>
- Subject: Re: Strong women in film (was Re: What do you Am men think about Am women?)
- Message-ID: <1992Nov18.164340.8682@news.cs.indiana.edu>
- Organization: Indiana University, Bloomington
- References: <1992Nov9.050437.20319@leland.Stanford.EDU> <1992Nov11.101812.9978@news.cs.indiana.edu> <1992Nov13.091451.10054@leland.Stanford.EDU>
- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 16:43:29 -0500
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- In article <1992Nov13.091451.10054@leland.Stanford.EDU> farthing@leland.Stanford.EDU (ljf) writes:
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- >I'm saying that I am tired of mainstream films that present lesbians
- >and gay men as stereotypes. Yes, if you see films that target
- >lesbigay audiences, you actually see real queer characters. In
- >mainstream films, though, the queer characters are usually comic
- >relief or perverts getting murdered or murdering.
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- Perhaps I would be more affected by the character if it were in stark
- contrast to the hets in the film. But, they are not. It's not like
- they were playing off the non-hets as being the root of all evil. If
- we had a clean, angelic het police officer ridding the city of
- bi-homosexual scum murderers, then it would be a different story...
-
- amy
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