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Women In Madame Doubtfire
We recently watched Anne Fine's novel, "Madame Doubtfire”, which came to life in a movie, "Mrs. Doubtfire". Throughout the film, a man disguises himself as a woman in hopes of being able to reconnect with his children after a failed marriage. The disguised woman is hired as a nanny to his children. There is a particular scene where Mrs. Doubtfire performs the Heimlich maneuver to save the man that is possibly going to become the stepfather to Mrs. Doubtfire's children. We know of a man disguising himself as a woman and perform a life-saving maneuver on the new to be stepfather to his children.
Disguising yourself to be something you aren't will lead to humiliation. Mrs. Doubtfire's true identity became known and resulted in humiliation. However,

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