Lesbian subtext?

Okay I just wanted to say something after rereading this thread years later.


Disagree about the lesbian subtext if you want, but if these two girls are supposed to be gay, it doesn't change the film. the message is still the same. You deniers seem to feel that if the girls are gay, the movie is cheapened or somehow inferior to a movie about straight girls. That's not true. It can still be good, and the girls can still be attracted to each other. I think the horror at the lesbian subtext is kinda offensive. What's wrong with being gay?

And please, PLEASE stop saying (in EVERY comment)"so two girls can't be good friends anymore without people calling them lesbian?" YES THEY CAN, but in this particular movie the friendship appears to go further. and the sheer volume of people who noticed the sexual attraction proves it's there.

You're not the only one who thought this. Even when I watching it for the first time as a child I thought both girls were different. Wow, some people really have problem with this. Color me shocked because I thought most noticed it too.

Clark's destiny = Superman, Lex Luthor & Lois Lane.

And if it does??????

J.R.R. Tolkien adamantly claims that his books have no themes of World War I at all. However, many readers discern that the books do indeed have such themes. He grew up during that time and participated in the war, whether or not he chose to consciously, subconsciously his life during World War I affected his writings.

Maybe the directors and writers and actors did not see much of a lesbian subtext, maybe some of them did. We as an audience can infer things about a movie. That is why in a poetry class, you can't be wrong unless you can't back up your explanation or you suggest something that you cannot find any meaning to. In my opinion, a lesbian subtext in this film can definitely be backed up.

When I first watched this movie I did not know much about attraction or that girls could be attracted to girls. At an older age I looked back on the movie and definitely saw something more than friendship between the girls. Then I re-watched the movie and found plenty of explanation.

Therefore, though possibly unintended, the film does have a lesbian subtext it seems. Many people agree and see it too.

I can't really see that. I think you're reading too far into it. Is it possible? Well...MAYBE, but I highly doubt it. Generally family/kids' movies don't have LGBT themes to them.

of course! and its not just subtext they say it in the movie
christina ricci: "idk theres something 'different' about her"
hahaha

Every time when I watch Anna Chlumsky in that movie, she REALLY does look like the guy I had a crush on back in high school who was the star quarterback and I'm a guy. Because of that, I think that Jody could easily pass off as being a butch lesbian.

So if the story involved two boys, I suppose that would imply a gay theme also? No? Then why do two female characters automatically imply a lesbian theme?

Face it, the only reason people say there is a lesbian subtext here is because Chlumsky's character wears floppy, unfeminine clothes and has a non-girly haircut.

You all are engaging in stereotypes. That doesn't do much either for your argument or for the way you think people should look, or do look, to fit your preconceptions.