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Where is Rock's dad?
- I suspect that it is part of the joke - for someone so obsessed with gender roles and the true way, she clearly isn't in a happy relationship.
- Would any man want to be in a relationship with Mary?
- Maybe he left her for another man.
- According to That Other Wiki, that's pretty much the case. He ran off to San Francisco.
Megan's like for tofu and dislike for her boyfriends kisses are "gay symptoms?"
- I think those "symptoms" were just a coincidence. She could have been eating vegetarian to try and keep her weight down for cheerleading. Her boyfriend being a bad kisser might have been exaggerated though; the movie is from a lesbian's point of view, after all.
- Her boyfriend being such an awful kisser is probably mostly her opinion because she's completely disinterested. With the power of omniscient camera, we know she was always thinking about girls anyway. It's possible her friends and close family saw more signs of this other than just the locker pictures, but going into those would have slowed the scene down and made it less funny.
- I thought they were a parody of whatever random attributes people tend to identify as "gay". It's a bit of a Hitler Ate Sugar thing. Some gays eat tofu, therefore all tofu eaters are gay.
- Yes, and there is a common stereotype of the vegetarian/vegan lesbian/bisexual woman.
Is Jan straight and cis, or an FTM?
- I don't see her as a transman. She seems like a boyish girl.
- My interpretation was that she wasn't sure either until the outburst scene; that she'd been accused of all kinds of things and was mixed up about her own feelings, especially if people had been telling her that she couldn't be a girl if she behaved like herself. Finally she realises this is nonsense, that she's both straight AND extremely butch. Genderqueer maybe, but not a transman.
- My personal interpretation was that she was cis and straight, largely because it kind of fits with the title of the movie. Megan is a cheerleader - an activity largely seen as very feminine - and is also a lesbian, which would run counter to a lot of folks' expectations. Jan being a butch straight girl follows that same idea of one's sexuality and one's self-presentation and activities being completely separate entities.
- My interpretation was that she wasn't sure either until the outburst scene; that she'd been accused of all kinds of things and was mixed up about her own feelings, especially if people had been telling her that she couldn't be a girl if she behaved like herself. Finally she realises this is nonsense, that she's both straight AND extremely butch. Genderqueer maybe, but not a transman.
When did Megan break up with her boyfriend?
- She mentioned missing him while she was speaking with (and lying through her teeth to) her parents, so the official breakup probably didn't happen until after the events of the film - most likely sometime between running off with Graham and the short scene of Megan's parents at the allies meeting.
- Given what she tells Graham in the dishwashing scene ("I thought I [had friends]") she seems to consider those relationships severed—her boyfriend would likely fall under that comment as well.
What happened to Andre?
- He was put on a bus.
