Boys on the Side
As has been shown in many of the films we have viewed previously, the bond between women is very strong. We have been previewed to many different types of friendships and bonding that women share, especially when on the road. Boys on the Side is no different in the idea that it shows the friendship and bond that is shared between women, but it is very different in the dynamic of that friendship. No other film that we have seen has shown such a strong non sexual relationship between a lesbian and two straight women. Their friendship breaks down any stereotype that has been held on the friendship between homosexuals and people of the same sex. The friendship that these women shared would by no means be called "normal", but they created their own normal. The women had no one else, so they leaned on eachother and became family to one another. Even though one of the women was a lesbian, that only strengthened the bond and friendship that they built. It gave us as viewers a new perspective on what friendship is and what it could be. In the end they became, what was to them a family unit.