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Albrecht Dürer, Fig. 3. European Roller wing, 1500.

This is code for a male in North American culture not to display any form of vulnerability or emotion as this can lead to a loss of energy or alienation from the human experience. As a result, many authors have chosen to use classic tales to, among other things, defy the classic tropes. Furthermore, according to Rod McGillis (2003), the early fairy tales were already extremely subversive and contained latent implications. As a result, he contends that the seemingly hegemonic masculinity of narratives is neither simple nor dominant. McGillis asserts that despite the authors' traditional heterosexuality, queerness is implied in a number of well-known stories.

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