I don't think she's supposed to be anything, actually, but there's an awful lot of subtext in the movie: Missy flirting with Torrance, and looking a little upset at the thought of Torrance liking her brother, as just a few examples.
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i think shes upset a bit cos its her brother and torrence is her friend and at her place to see MISSY. u dont want ur friend being friends with ur sibling. when does she flirt with torrence?!
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Missy never "flirts" with Torrance.
Like you said, Missy was uncomfortable with the idea of her friend and her brother hooking up. Sometimes those situations get sticky, and you either end up losing a friend or feeling like you are betraying a sibling. A lot of people do not want to be in the middle of a situation like that.
People desperately search for gay "subtext" everywhere. Just look around the boards. Just about every board has at least one person asking (hoping desperately) about characters in shows or movies being gay, and manufacturing 'innuendo' that they say leads to it.
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There are many movies where a main character has no love interest. Having too many "love stories" going on at once would just bog down the movie. And how, exactly is she "very fond of Torrence, very fast"? Is it because she is the only one that is supportive when things started to go wrong? She most likely called her brother an idiot because she could see how much they liked each other, nothing more.
People need to stop desperately searching for "hidden gayness" in just about every movie, TV show or even cartoon that is ever made!
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Nobody is "terrified" of a gay character. But people need to stop always trying to read 'gayness' into everything when it is not there.
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Who's terrified? Nobody is saying there is anything wrong with being gay, they are just pointing out the fact that Missy isn't in the movie. And that fact that people actually think she was flirting with Torrance when it never happened just goes to show how people look too deep to make a movie character gay.
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when she walked in the gym for try outs they called her something like an 'ooober dyke' so once a lesbo comment is thrown out to someone people automatically assume that its fact.shes is not gay! : )
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Metro, hetro? Lol she was indeed not gay, just coz someone doesn't show her feminine side doesn't means she's gay. Or you can't wear anything other than trousers coz you are gay
If it that was the case, i'd have to throw my long skirts away
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'BOGUS'
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Is right.
Just because somebody is not feminine does not mean they are lesbians.
So you can tell if somebody is a lesbian by what clothes they wear?
Weird.
Well missy acts different, but she's just got an attitude thats all and she seems quite shy well a little she wasn't comfortable wearing a skimpy outfit coz she doesn't like to wear the clothes didn't mean she was a lesbian right?
What about Sporty girls i got loads of female friends branded things they are not just because they're mechanics or tomboys or sporty or get on with guys or just like comfortable clothes and don't like pink.
So they're lesbians this is really naive.
I was wondering this too!!
She does seem to be a tad miffed that Torrence likes her brother, and remember when torrance and missy were laying in bed and missy put her hand on torrances leg. I think missy liked torrance more than a friend.
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Okay I've never for one second thought she was gay. Just cause her n Torrance are close, and sometime hold hands or hook arms doesn't mean she's gay, Courtney and Whitney do they same, and Missy accuses them of being gay at one point, and I don't think she did it in a "I wanna get in there" way lol.
And if she was jealous of Cliff n Torrance would she really push him to get with her in the living room scene? I think when she asks if Torrance likes Cliff it's more of a "OMG my best friend likes my brother" rather than a"OMG my crush likes my brother". And she semed genuinly happy when Cliff turned up to watch them.
Me thinks not gay.
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The only i can of, as to why Missy was a lil upset seeing Torrance eyeing her brother, is because she knows Torrance currently has a boyfriend, and she doesn't want her brother being played or messed around. Missy is definatly not gay.
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Obvious subtext was obvious.
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I have always interepreted Missy as being straight, but that's just because I am; however, after reading the comments here, I can definitly see how others see her as gay or bi, which are equally valid interpretations, since we never see her dating anyone of any sex. The creators may well have meant for the viewer to make up his or her own mind, which would be cool.
As far as the relationship between Missy, her brother and Torrance goes, I think she was concerned about the implications on her friendship with Torrance, especially since she knew she was already dating Aaron the douche. These feelings of concern for her sibling would be just as valid if she was straight, gay or bi, but if she *was* gay or bi, yeah, that would definitly add another layer to the whole thing, which is an interesting take on it.
By the end of the film, she seems fine about them dating, one way or another; hopefully Missy finds someone of her own persussion (whatever it is) and the four of them can hang out after high school :D
She's uber-hot no matter what direction she swings ;)
In movies nothing is really set in stone, interpretation is always the key thing for each individual viewer. Given in this movie she didn't really have a defined sexuality, and perhaps it was just because she didn't do the usual thing in teen-oriented movies and proclaim her staunch heterosexuality every living second that could give off a gay or bisexual interpretation. It's really up to each viewer. Given, if you're heterosexual and are presented with an asexual character like Missy, you are perhaps more likely to just view her as straight, though if you have experienced homosexual attraction and are gay or bisexual yourselves you may pick up on things a straight viewer wouldn't immediately notice or take into consideration. However, that's not saying a gay viewer will automatically categorize her or any other character without clearly-defined-heterosexuality as gay or a straight viewer will automatically view her as straight (and to be honest it seems like Missy and Torrance became the most popular romantic ship in the movie, among those of all sexualities).
Even in 2000, though, it is noted that it was an extreme unlikelyhood of having an openly gay teen character in a mainstream movie- most of the hollywood films that had gay characters cast them as the Flamboyant Gay-Best-Friend stereotype, and it really didn't seem like they wanted actual lesbian or bisexual female characters more so as they wanted to use gay female sexuality as a marketing ploy to titilate and draw in male viewers. Interestingly enough cause in the 90s and early 2000s there were more and more shows breaking new ground with teen characters coming out or their struggles with sexuality becoming a major subplot- think My So Called Life, Dawsons Creek, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Once and Again, the Degrassi revival et al- but mainstream movies were pretty moot in their even more-homogeny-centric mindset. So it was highly unlikely they were ever going to approve Missy simply saying in her own way "I like girls", so if that was the creator's intention they could only hint at it or portray it in subtext, so there's certainly nothing far-fetched about some interpreting her as gay or bisexual. And if that wasn't the intention, they likely weren't interested in portraying her sexuality at all.
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