#but hey if this means all the baby southern gays got to watch explicitly queer content with the conservative family members I’ll take it

[hamletthedane]

I know people complain about the film version of Fried Green Tomatoes burying the lead a little re: the main characters being in a romantic relationship….

But let me tell you: nothing will ever beat being a 13 year old queer girl and having all your conservative southern religious relatives invite you to watch a movie where a hot woman dips her fingers in her friend’s jar of honey and slowly licks the honey off her fingers with an intense amount of eye contact. That was the day that all the wlw southern girlies learned what a visual film metaphor was.

(And then - of course - the characters kiss, quote biblical wedding vows at each other, move in together, have a baby, open a cafe, refuse to marry anybody else, possibly commit a murder, confess their undying love for each other in sworn courtroom testimony, and raise their son as a family. you know….just as friends….)