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Was Lureen a lesbian or bi, maybe?
Artiste:
Thanks souxi!
May I quote you:
--- Quote ---... Laureen might have been impressed with Lawshawn at the dance, doesn,t mean she fancied the pants off of her. She could simply have been admiring her dress or her hair. Women do do that you know, even me. It doesn,t make us raving lesibians!!
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Wow, do all lesbians rave... scream?? No!! Some don't, some do!! I know some acting with either of those actions, and find most who are quiet like Lureen and Lawshawn, to my experience. Any comments on that?
And may I reply of course women, even straights, bi-s and others, plus lesbians would admire Lawshawn's dress, hair, words... actions. That is only natural!
To me it is also equally natural for Lureen as a lesbian or bi, to admire that too!! Plus, she has or is starting a crush in lawshawn!!
Did you re-check that part in the BM movie?
May we all have our crushes!!
Hugs!!
Hugs!!
souxi:
Wow, do all lesbians rave... scream?? No!! Some don't, some do!! I know some acting with either of those actions, and find most who are quiet like Lureen and Lawshawn, to my experience. Any comments on that?
Artiste it was just an expression. I didn,t literally mean that Laureen would rave and scream. Jeez. ::)
Artiste:
Thanks souxi!
May I quote you:
--- Quote ---lesbians... some are quiet like Lureen and Lawshawn, to my experience. Any comments on that?
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Souxi, that is the way I think that Lureen and Lawshawn act: quiet, like you say; and therefore, may I say are discreet about their lesbian relationship (which starts, is or will be starting) at that dance.
Hugs!
Brown Eyes:
OK... so I'm going to enter the fray here and bring my own lesbian perspective into this question.
The interaction between Lureen and LaShawn is certainly interesting in the film. No question. But, I don't get the sense that Lureen was developing a crush on LaShawn... I get the sense that she was barely tolerating her. If anything, there may have been a moment when they slightly bonded over the idea that both of their husbands were neglecting them.
And, I'm going to restate my observation about Lureen that I've now posted a couple of places where the speculation about Lureen being a lesbian has come up (over and over again).
Lureen's excitement at meeting Jack in the beginning strongly shows the viewer that she really is straight. She's interested enough to approach him at the bar when she senses his reluctance. And, most importantly, she's very excited and eager for the sexual contact in the car... the heterosexual contact... in the car.
These are not behaviors typical of lesbians. Most lesbians don't show this much interest in men and certainly wouldn't be as excited and eager as Lureen is in the car scene. In fact, many lesbians would go out of their way to avoid the behaviors that Lureen demonstrates.
Lureen, is very confident and she's sexually-self-aware. Her boldness and confidence in going after what she wants are positive things (at least from my perspective). Again, I am a lesbian... and I think it's great that Lureen has so much confidence in her own sexuality, which from the scenes we're shown in the film seems strongly heterosexual. Her self-confidence and assertiveness seems pretty extraordinary and very progressive for a straight woman in Texas during her era. She's a progressive character in that regard... but not a lesbian. There is a purely speculative possibility that Lureen could be bisexual since a bisexual woman is interested in both men and women.... but we are never shown any actions on her part that support this.
She's so self-assured, especially in the scenes where we observer her as a young, single woman.. that if she was a lesbian... she would not be pursuing Jack, she would be pursuing women.
Dal:
If anyone is a lesbian, it's Mrs. Newsome. She was not one originally, but after years of marriage to LD she became one.
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