QuoteShe was in Shrek II also. After the film my two daughters (age 9 and 12 at the time) had a debate over who she was. "That was a man in a dress!" "No, that was the Ugly Stepsister!"
Well,
I now realize that I didn't see that one either, so now I guess I need to rent it.
Kids are always going to question people when they see something they haven't encountered before. Little girls questioning butch women about their identity the first couple of times they meet someone is normal and that situation has been going on for generations. It is also critical for young women that will grow up to be butch themselves. The first time you meet someone as a child, that you can identify with personally is always a type of epiphany, especially so in the queer community.
Meeting one person that is out and about and doing their thing on their own terms in the real world can go a long way to undermining the negative idears sown in the minds of young impressionables by family and authority figures, if your identity is out of bounds with the normative.
What I want to know is who taught those kids that phraseology, "man in a dress." I am not sure children would adopt that terminology on their own if it were not first planted in their mind. Kids might question something out of the norm, but typifying someone as being outside the norn of what they appear to be is a learned behaviour, methinks.
