occurred because of patriarchal Hollywood ideas about the depiction of proper behavior, sexual and otherwise, of young women. No interviews could be located which call into question what part the two filmmakers played in the sexual changes, but in several instances, Clowes cites problems that various executives caused for the vision of the film he and Zwigoff created:
             "[They] met with a lot of resistance, mostly from men, who argued that Enid and Becky were not representative of real teenage girls. [Clowes stated,] "They'd say, 'Girls don't talk like this. Girls don't swear. 'It's like this weird patriarchal thing that goes down the line. The guys in charge are very concerned with that. They really refused to believe that these were realistic characters. And then, of course, all the 20-year-old women there were like, 'No, these are realistic characters.'" (Chocano, 2000) "The things that happened [when shopping the film] were all the things you would think of. You think the fiction of Hollywood has to be exaggerated, and it's just not.
             ...