She Made Me Watch This!: "Love on the Side" and the 6 Gayest Non-Gay Teen Movies

You guys were great once again and I love the name. It's easy to remember since it's close to "She Said What." Snarky comments were the best set so far.

I've actually seen Love on the Side, and agree with everything you said. I'm gonna try to let you guys know about any other movies that may have fallen through the cracks. Can't wait for your next one.

I'm actually sitting here giggling to myself now because I'm a drummer with short hair, and since we're a metal band I wear a lot of black and chains. Or at least I used to when we started out and I was about 15. I've kind of moved passed that now being a respectable 20 year old and all.

I also actually screamed out loud in the cinema when Janis Ian's character ended up with Kevin G at the end of Mean Girls. I find Bring It On works a lot better if you see the whole thing as being about Missy/Torrence and their relationship. Just ignore Cliff. Trust me. It works.

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...with pretty much everything you said. Eliza Dushku in Bring It On. Yeah. Calling a girl "Missy" is no way to make her straight. I mean, my parents insisted on calling me that when I was younger and I turned out to be totally gay.

My cousin calls that 80's movie with Mary Stuart Masterson "Some Kind of Wonderful Girl". For Mary, of course.

Thanks for the great start to my day. How cute are you guys. Much love from the sunshine state.

Thank gawd I don't need to change my wardrobe (I love black), and I happen to have a chain *LOL* I bet you two agreed on wearing black for this week's installment - in case anyone was still wondering about you, eh? ;)  

I loved "Just one of the guys" and I remember Terry (Joyce Hyser) trying to escape Sherilyn Fenn's character on the beach, not succeeding and Sherilyn pulling out a sock from Terry's pants *LOL*

And I loved Bend it like Beckham, too. I totally agree with you: Jess and Jules together had chemistry burning off the screen. It made sense when I read they dropped the lesbian story line from the script at the last minute to make the film more marketable. 

"Some kind of wonderful" always made me wonder... In the movie Mary was too cute to be straight, and Eric was probably in the closet ;)

Foxfire... Hm. I rest my case.

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"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind." (Dr. Seuss)

I was little boy still in single digits age-wise when I first saw that movie and I was "She is in love with a GUY?".

ETA- Bend IT Like Beckam makes so much more sense now.

And- Every time I see Firefox listing I think it says Foxfire. I am starting to resent seeing Clint Eastwood's name.

"I can explain why I like, but not why I love."

I think I'm the only one but I couldn't finish watching Bound.  Even though she's pretty hot, her voice just drives me crazy.  It's so insanely high and squeaky.

The list....I've only seen "Bend it Like Beckham" and I've read that the ending was suppose to be gay too but sadly it wasn't.  Keira Knightley and Parminder Nagra did have more chemistry together than with Jonathon Rhys Meyers.  But he was awesome in Velvet Goldmine though.

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I watched Bend it like Beckem on IFC and thought it was a lesbian movie till the very end. :(

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Sorry...I'm about to let out my literary geek. I spent a semester of my undergraduate work taking a class that looked at modernizations of Shakespeare. "One of the Guys" and "She's the man" are just modernized versions of "As You Like It". The same goes for "West Side Story" being Romeo and juliet and "10 Things I Hate About You" coming from "Taming of the Shrew". Ok I'll stuff the literary geek back in her cage and say just one more thing:

This V-blog is so much fun. I'm glad you guys are going to be keeping it up.

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When the movie just came out, I think it was in 2002, I was just developing my sexuality. I was in the dvd store and saw this movie "Bend it Like Beckham", I was crazy about the soccer (didn't really love Beckham, I was more into Z.Zidane as a soccer-player), and the front picture of the dvd was nice. So I rented the dvd. But when I saw Keira Knightley and Parminder Nagra play together in this movie, they had really more chemistry with each other then with Jonathon Rhys Meyers. I don't really have a gay-dar but it rang loudly, damn.I was sure that they were falling in love. Especially after the little kiss. Even the mother (didn't like her) of Jules though they were gay.

And like Sarah said, in the original script they were meant to fall in love!!! And I read also on the internet that they haven't done it because they were sacred for the reaction of the Indian Culture (like with the episode in season four of Xena)

But KEIRA KNIGHTLY with SHORT  hair = HOT

In "Bring It On" and most films with a single object of indentification, the side kick cannot have a social life without distracting the audiences ability to primarily identify with the protagonist.  Any complexity delineates object identification (I want to be her) and fetishization (wanting to be her requires wanting her).  Both of these relations being equally important in gaining pleasure from traditional narrative film.  The side-kick has no sexuality of their own, but instead focuses all their attention on the same sex object. The entire concept does not allow the character to be anything except lesbian.

Foxfire is originally a really interesting book written by Joyce Carol Oates, with characters set in the fifties.  It is a really angry book because it's not just a teacher or single people that oppress these characters, but society as a whole.  Honestly the only book I've read angrier than Foxfire is the autobiography of Malcolm X.  Needless to say, the book is interesting and worth reading.

In reference to Just One of the Guys, George Cukor made a 1935 RKO film called Silvia Scarlett which starred Katherine Hepburn and Carey Grant.  This film also recreates Taming of Twelfth Night, however, it also brings in issues of class as well.  A great part of the film is after Katherine Hepburn is kissed on screen by a woman, later on when the woman realizes this, the woman doesn't actually care. George Cukor was a gay man, and so was Grant, and supposedly Hepburn, which historically makes the film that much funnier.  You all should rent it.  It's a great film.

It's not really a non-gay, yet gay teen movie, but I always thought Stef and Andy would make a cute couple.

Hi Ladies...this is such a cool new feature! Damn entertaining too...

As for 'Some Kind of Wonderful' Watts screamed gay to me before I even had an inkling that that was what my obsession with Lea Thompson was REALLY all about. So now when I re-watch the film I just like to imagine Watts and Amanda making out at the end...

As for for 'Stick It' and 'Bend it Like Beckham' both of those movies have always felt stunted to me...like there was an entire storyline that was left on the cutting room floor....

Anyways, thanks again...have a great week!