The movie is said to be a critique of stereotyped gender roles and images. Comment on this with regard to the movie.

Not only does cross-dressing give Joe and Jerry a better understanding of women, but it also gives them a fuller understanding of their own identities. In listening to Sugar's perspective on playboy saxophonists from the safety of his disguise as "Josephine," Joe begins to see that his two-timing ways are damaging. By living as "Josephine," he learns to be a more thoughtful and romantically sensitive man. Jerry also learns an important, if more confusing, lesson about himself. While initially, he had thrown himself into his female persona for the sole purpose of reaching a previously-forbidden intimacy with the women in the band, he eventually grows to enjoy living as a lady, and learns something about the confusing and complicated expression of his own gender.

That he so happily embodies Daphne, even when it is clear that he has become the sexual object of another man’s desire, is proof that he is in a process of learning things about his own identity that he would likely have never considered had he not cross-dressed in the first place. While his revelation of identity is somewhat confusing and inconclusive, Jerry finds a new kind of joy in accessing the "Daphne" inside him.