Lesbian subplot?

I'm not gay, but I have always felt that, as a matter of fact, I wonder if in the dressing room something further might have happened between Dinky and her teacher? It does seem like a forced ending.....but all along though he was an integral character and you can tell that he was just not a throw away character. But the teacher...Her relationship with her boyfriend just seemed forced, and I think Roxy was involved with both Jeff Daniels character and Dinah Manoff (ironic last name)'s character and there is a part in the movie where her blonde friend I guess has made breakfast or something (it's been awhile since I have seen this....) and Manoff says thank you but you can't compare to Roxy....yeah definitely something was on....and Melissa Etheridge doing soundtrack was a big thing, I think nobody was ready and most inklings were thrown out and I think Etheridge wasn't 'out' at this point in her career either.

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i'm watching the movie right now, and i checked imdb to see if the writer was a lesbian or something. because it just seemed pretty gay overall. the melissa etheridge soundtrack doesn't help.

I am a stright dude, and I can tell you, thee was definetly a lesbian sub-tone to Dinky's relationship with her teacher. No doubt. But the teacher was hot, I don't blame Dinky.

In my opinon, Dinky felt a strong connection to Jeff Danniels because she thought that he was her real father and Roxy was the real mother. But my thoughts are that the guidance counselor is the real mother and the teacher that the counselor slept w/ was the real father. There was some hesitation when she was kissing the teacher because she didn't really want to tell him that he is Dinky's daughter because of the comments he made towards Dinky earier in the film. That is also why she was acting so friendly to Dinky and wanted to know about her life. She knew that Dinky was her child that she gave up a long time ago.

And the girlfriends, you knew they had done something. It's very obivous. The blonde tag along girlfriend is into women. And best friend to Roxy is bisexual.

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I also didn't really see the lesbian subtext between the teacher and Dinky. Some subtext could be taken out, but I don't think any of it was intentional. The hands scene just seemed like a moment where the guidance counselor was showing that she was there for her and offering her some comfort. However, the dressing room scene was iffy and the scene by the ark was very iffy. I thought at the ark scene there seemed to be more tension than in the other scenes. I think the guidance counselor really cared for Dinky and subsequently Dinky had developed an affection for her (though I can't say if it was romantically or in a motherly/look up to her way). I guess you can take from it what you will, though I did think the romance between the guidance counselor and principal was very forced. They had no chemistry. At least Dinky had chemistry with Gerald. However, I can easily see how people could see Dinky being a lesbian and it wouldn't really be a stretch to imagine. Plus, there were some other lesbian connections in this film that do make me wonder if the writers wanted Dinky to be gay but just couldn't go there at the time.

Also, that definitely was a lesbian subplot between the adults. When the scene where they were talking with the glasses in their hands appeared I was super confused. I was like 'she's talking as if they just had sex.' That totally took me by surprise. The one was married and apparently had a fling with Roxy. I wondered if the married woman was meant to be a lesbian who just hid it by getting married or bisexual. The other was clearly implied to be a lesbian, and there is the scene at the party where the two make eye contact while the married one dances with her husband. Then the other woman spots a girl by her and they keep making little glances at each other. Definitely a lesbian subplot going on (and I don't even think it was subtle! I thought it was made pretty clear that the adults were having a lesbian affair).

I think Gerald having long blonde hair was as close as they could get to having a lesbian relationship.

One of the main themes is about female relationships. Think about the color pink and how its used in the movie in an intimate way. Dinky drops her pink bow on the bus floor and Gerald comes to her rescue.

Dinky is an outcast and doesn't know who her parents are plus she has a terrible relationship with the ultra stereotypical female mom figure who is desperate to convert Dinky to that way.

In the end Dinky stops with the whole black thing...I think it means that she isnt obsessed with the black thing. The confusing thing is that there's also times in the movie when characters conform. Gerald gets his teeth straightened and Dinky is wearing pink in the end.

The guidance teacher is a lesbian for sure. She is also an outcast since she left new york because of the book about self development wasnt successful. So you have two characters very likely lesbian or bisexual, they are both confused about self development, portrayed as outcast or ostracisizing themselves. I think that the writer is the guidance counseler and Dinky: its like a nostalgic memoir between an older and younger self. Thats the serious part of the movie most people clearly missed given the poor rating.

There is a heap of lesbian moments and references which aren't so important but help you to see the writers viewpoint. Some stuff I noticed on my own, like the changing room, the hands under the table and generally the way Dinky interacts with the counselor. My mind may be in the gutter but the most graphic sexual scene is two people having sex on carpet in a carpet store hehe. I didn't even know that the singer is Melissa Etheridge.