Reese Witherspoon didn't understand what homosexuality was until she auditioned in Los Angeles

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Reese Witherspoon: I feel like I met you when I was 23 years old.

Regina King: I know - we have grown children. We met each other on #LegallyBlonde. Remember when you got Sally Field to play that part? We were just fanning out https://t.co/JTfF8kCDNd
- Variety (@Variety) June 23, 2020
The Little Fires Everywhere star had a virtual Red, White & Blonde

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[angriest_girl]

I learned about heterosexuality from reading Dolly fiction (old Aussies will get it).

I learned about homosexuality in early high school (I know, I know, but again - old) and my then best friend’s mum had friends who were a gay couple and they were at her house a lot.

[lozbabie]

Thanks for calling me out

Dolly Doctor was life and the sealed sections were amazing.

[angriest_girl]

Dolly Doctor is an Aussie icon. “One of my boobs is bigger than the other, is this normal?”

But thinking back, some of it was really sad - and I didn’t recognise that at the time because I too was a dumb ignorant teenage girl. So many questions where boys were pressuring girls to do things they didn’t want to but girls being scared they’d get dumped if they didn’t, questions where girls didn’t know what was happening to their own bodies because in the 80s no one talked about it and there was no internet. At least these days young girls can go online and find information or support that they need.

[lozbabie]

So much of the info though is about how to be comfortable when doing it. It’s less about how you don’t have to do everything but how to do it safely. But so many teen girls then and now, don’t want to do what they’re being pressured into. (16 year old I coach approached me as her boyfriend was pressuring her to do anal. She didn’t want to but worried he would dump her. My exact response was ‘if he’s pressuring you to do something you keep saying no to, isn’t being dumped a good thing?’ We then went on in more detail but she feels more empowered now)

My fave Dolly Doctor was the girl who wrote in cause she was worried she was a freak for using her sisters barbie dolls to masturbate. One cause of the memory of it being read on the bus. But I remember the response being so compassionate and kind. (Basically it’s normal to want to use object to masturbate but perhaps use something different as that could be uncomfortable and cause injury) everyone made fun of it, but I guarantee there were girls who had the same questions.

[angriest_girl]

I want to say I remember that Barbie one, but I wonder if I just remember people talking about it every time the subject of Dolly Doctor comes up. Regardless, a classic.

[lozbabie]

That particular magazine got passed around everywhere. The memory for me is being on a sports trip (boy and girls team) and having one of the boys do a dramatic reading on the bus.

That was also the trip I got caught kissing one of the boys and we had to go in front of the general manager of the trip as obviously this wasn’t allowed. (We were both 14/15)

The coach who caught us could understand why I burst into tears and the boy went white. We begged to just be told off but rules were rules. That’s when he remembered the general manager was my grandfather 😂

My grandfather would have been late 50s and was a tall imposin man. I swear the boy thought he was going to get murdered. My grandfather lives to tell that story.

[angriest_girl]

Lol, good times!

I went to girls school so I didn’t get to kiss any boys until I was 16 and allowed to go the under 18s disco.

[winter_lace]

dolly doctor. what a flash back

[violet_crumble9]

omg reading the sealed dolly doctor section felt so scandalous. it was an event. but tbh i was more of a girlfriend.

[angriest_girl]

Girlfriend was after my time, I had moved on to Cosmo and Cleo by then. Learning how to drive my man wild with an ice cube.

[therearewords]

Girlfriend was much cooler than Dolly.

[godramaclub]

I remember being called a lesbian before i knee what a lesbian was lol. Then i had a weird experience in primary 7 where a my best friend would bully me verbally but also like... grope me?

I feel like if we'd all been better educated as lil kids we wouldnt have been made to feel that "lesbian" was an insult and that girl would have accepted that she was gay at a much younger age (she is happily married to a woman now), our friendship would have been healthier and less frightening to me and i might have been more willing to acknowledge earlier that i miiiiiiiiiight be bi.

Basically it would have spared us both a lot of grief.