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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[bellwetherr]

i mean this isn't surprising to me if she was raised in a really conservative environment

[puro_desmadre]

She's a Republican (at least was before Trump). Lil Laura Reese Witherspoon is a southern bell through and through.

[turtleisland]

She's been donating to Democrat candidates since at least 2003, so I'm not sure where you get that.

[catelyn_tully]

I fact checked and you’re right! Love that for her

[genbu_no_miko24]

Tbf growing up in the 90s even you would hear people say “oh homosexuality doesn’t exist here, maybe up north but not here”. That was a popular saying especially if you didn’t live in liberal or big city area.

[zipster]

margaret cho used to have this joke.. her parents owned a gay book store in SF back in the day. and her mom would say, "there are so many gay ALL over the world! but not korea."

[friarsfire]

I wish I knew what this meant

[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.

[crash31]

Reese related pet peeve: The worst part of The Morning Show was her slipping in and out of her southern accent (even when she was talking to her brother) which is laughable considering she is actually from the south and talks about it ad nauseam.

[crystalzelda]

I mean that makes it more authentic to me? Most people who used to have accents but moved have a tendency to slip in and out depending on what they’re talking about. Idk I’ve caught myself doing that where I hear my accent coming out, try to reel it in but if I’m nervous or talking fast lol it’ll pop back out.

[crash31]

I felt like it didn’t fit for her character though to slip in and out so often since she was literally plucked from the south and sounded very southern on her previous broadcast prior to joining the morning show

[ms_mmelissa]

IA.

[shangri__la]

I appreciate her current openness on how her southern and church upbringing led to unconscious biases she had to unlearn. White people may not listen to Black people and other BIPOC but they'll listen to her. She used to be a brat but she seems to have visibly changed her attitude in many ways over the years.

I just wish she would do more film and televison projects surrounding BIPOC without inserting herself (although I understand sometimes that's the only way some things get made). Her book club is pretty diverse and I wish her film projects reflected the same.