Yeh and in Jennifer's body two hot chicks totally made out.......I don't think they do.
Sure, straight women sometimes ship same-sex male characters, but that is actually very different from performative lesbianism, in that the former is typically about relationship dynamics between men, while the latter is about visual spectacle. There is no normative assumption in that kind of same-sex shipping that the male couples are not actually attracted to each other independently of the male gaze, or are more interested in gaining the approval of women, whereas that is an implicit assumption of performative lesbianism. If you wanted to criticise the way straight shipping culture handles same-sex male couples, it would be more similar to the way someone would criticise "lesbian porn", in that both are representations of same-sex intimacy that end up reflecting the attitudes and priorties of their heterosexual audience, and thus misrepresenting what same-sex intimacy is actually like in reality.
Like it or not it still comes back round to the idea of suggesting a 3 way could be possible. Pretty sure that's why the kinda weird Supernatural shipping stuff kicked off and the massive blow up when the finale didn't give them what they wanted eve though everyone knew it wouldn't give them it.
Or how it's frame kinda for dudes lolGood, because that would be a terrible argument.
There is absolutely nothing subtle about the way those characters are framed as bisexual.
Yes but again the argument is who it was done for. I dunno if I'd really argue the film was done specifically to appeal to people who are Bi considering the camera angels and shots don't really have that much for people interested in sexy guys (or at least not that I remember).You misunderstand.
The reason your views don't matter is because you clearly missed very obvious things about that film. I think most straight adults today would have absolutely no problem picking up on the very unsubtle bisexuality of these characters. I realise that there's a certain bizarre unwillingness to acknowledge that female characters being obviously attracted to each other, kissing or having sex with each other in a film might imply something non-heterosexual about their sexuality (cough, Black Swan) but I also want to give credit and say that I think straight people today are generally far more media-aware when it comes to queerness compared to a decade ago. The problem is, this film wasn't marketed to straight adults today, it was marketed to straight male teenagers in 2009.
And if your mentality hasn't moved on from that of a straight teenager in 2009, I do think your opinion doesn't matter, because I think there is a fairly clear-cut right and a wrong audience for certain films, and this film wasn't made for straight boys from 2009.
Heck, when Karen Kusama (the director) and Diablo Cody (the writer) wrote to the film's publicity team to complain about an advert for the film they felt was misleading, they apparently received a single like reply that read: "Jennifer sexy, she steal your boyfriend". If that's the executive you want to compare your views to, go right ahead, because that certainly sounds like someone who understood what they were doing. That sounds like someone whose opinions we should take very seriously indeed.