oh, mean girls.

so i love the movie 'mean girls'. i have a minor crush on tina fey, and she looks totally hot in it. and there are all the fun cameos and the girls who play the plastics are very fun and i totally buy lindsay lohan’s story. and so tonight i’m laying around watching it for like the 3rd time since i bought it on sale on Saturday, and maybe it’s just that i’ve seen it so many times in so few days that the patterns are starting to pop out and i’m seeing something i feel like i need to work out: mean girls is anti-lesbian? how weird.

let me spout: so there’s damian the super-queer. and he’s adorable, i love him like i love my very own queer boys. but we can’t forget that he’s gay by way of stereotypical femme presentation, not by way of sexuality. he’s absolutely sex-less. i don’t think he expresses a single iota of desire once in the entire movie. (though now that i’m saying that, i want to go back and watch the movie again and check that out for real, see if he doesn’t cast a bedroom eye at someone.) and of course, he does have the vanity thing going on, as well as the penchant for show tunes and an awesome bitchy-girl side.

and then there’s Janice. i love Janice. i really do. she’s an awesome artist and i like her style and she’s totally f-ing hot (those eyes?! holy shit, i’m weak-kneed). but let’s examine the issues here. she is highly female-centric in that she exists in an almost man-less circle, given damian’s neutered persona. and at one point, when cady is referring to regina’s appearance, Janice’s comment is about how regina’s “got pretty big jugs” now that she’s putting on weight. hmm…

and there are no less than three occasions in the movie where damian attempts to tell cady why Janice hates regina so much, and each time Janice silences him. then, when cady reads that the Plastics think Janice is a dyke, cady refuses to tell Janice that. instead she lies and says that Janice wasn’t mentioned at all. her actions show us that to cady, being called a dyke is so bad she can’t even say it to her friend. and to Janice, being called a dyke is so bad that she can’t even have it mentioned to her friend that that is the reason she hates regina. hmm…

and then, just to top it all off, when cady enters the Halloween party and the voiceover is talking about how girls dress like sluts on Halloween in America, dead-ahead there are two girls dressed in slutty gear, making out in a doorway. and though these high schoolers are supposedly so gay-friendly that damian’s sexuality is apparently fine by everyone, cady definitely gives the making-out girls a weird “what the hell is going on here?” look.

hmm… i feel like this movie is having a strange relationship with the gay folk. i love this movie. it kind of hurts my feelings.