Was Angelina Jolie in Girl, Interrupted My Problematic Gay Root?
I identify as a rapidly aging LA bisexual in a stable relationship with a nice guy who brings me coffee when I'm hungover and secretly arranges to get my filthy car cleaned, but there was a time—not so long ago, in fact—when I was a young, messy, newly out lesbian living in Brooklyn and doing my level best to secure a girlfriend however possible. I didn't want just any girlfriend, however; I went on plenty of dates with nice, normal women who held down jobs and paid their taxes and responded to my texts. But the ones who truly held my attention during that mildly insane time of my life were, well…the not-so-sane ones.
Given that I've struggled with depression and disordered eating for most of my life, it feels kind of weird and vaguely misogynistic for me to refer to any other woman as 'crazy,' but you have to understand that the C-word was by no means a dealbreaker for me back then; I was absolutely captivated by the dazzling chaos that beautiful, charismatic, mean, possibly under-medicated women let loose in my life (whenever I could actually convince one to return my calls, that is). Then, on a recent Sunday afternoon, it suddenly hit me: Was my 'type' back then more or less just Angelina Jolie as stunningly sexy sociopath Lisa Rowe in the 1999 film Girl, Interrupted?
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