April is so tomboyish...


...I felt disappointed when she turned out to be a hetero afer all! It would have been more fitting, more novel and certainly more brave if they made her a real Lesbian. (Without introducing an actual girlfriend. Implication would have been enough for the adult viewers and the children would not notice or care.)

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yes because movies are made to spread gay propaganda, not to make money

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Good movies are made with care, to make sure that all the parts will fit together in harmony. As, for example, somebody's looks, behaviour and choices.

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If we wouldn't notice then what would be the point? Not all tomboys are lesbians, and I was happy to see a girl who wasn't "girly" but was still just a girl.

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I feel that, while more movies with LGBT individuals would be nice, simply making her a lesbian because she's a bit butch is the wrong idea. She's a strong, intelligent young woman who displayed that she didn't need Julius. Displaying the main character as tomboyish to me helps subvert stereotypes, that a bad ass heroine needs to be a Lara Croft type.

To me a braver decision was something like what Paranorman did, which was take a stereotype, the dumb, athletically fit jock and very nonchalantly making a note that he was gay. It made it very normal, like he could have been in a relationship with a woman and it have been just as minor a detail. Even for George Takei's disapproval of the portrayal I think Sulu's portrayal as being gay in the latest Star Trek movie is another brave and fitting choice.

But this? It just feels like it would be forced. The relationship between Julius and April contributed strongly to the ending and made the trust that was built through out the movie more significant. The way April is portrayed seems to me to be a strong demonstrator that a woman doesn't need to be feminine, have long hair, or conform to certain ways to be something special, she can be herself.

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I don't think it affects the story either way and I would not have cared, and been quite happy for children to watch, if April did have a girlfriend to fall in love with. We're in a post-Buffy world and there can't be that many folks in the Western World who would have a problem with this (hopefully - seems a long time since Willow & Tara were on TV). But for this film I understood the tomboy affect to be more defensive than anything else - a way of getting about with less hassle.

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