Not conforming to typical gender roles in the first place, Molly refuses to take on either role. In essence, she thinks that the idea of one woman appearing as masculine and one woman appearing as feminine in a lesbian relationship defies the purpose of being gay, that is simply being a woman who loves another woman. Molly believes that “the whole point of being gay is because you love women” (p. Molly learns that among the lesbian scene, there are butches and femmes, and she feels pressured to pick a side, which she rejects. Only after moving to New York does she discover the vivid LGBTQIA+ scene. 112), Molly always manages to laugh them off or get a comeback. 109) or suggestions of seeing a therapist to cure her unhealthy sexual desires (p. But no matter how mean those comments, such as “You’re sick and you don’t belong ” (p. Early on she has to learn, through meanspirited remarks, that this makes her different. On top of that she has this sort of breathy thing going on that I found it really distracting.Rubyfruit Jungle is Rita Mae Brown’s first novel, originally published in 1973. And I find her accent, irritating, because that’s definitely not how poor white Floridians - those who live in the small rural towns, not Miami or Orlando - speak. For those who don’t know Anna Paquin was raised in New Zealand. This might be due to the really lousy casting of Anna Paquin as the reader. Oranges are not the only fruit held up for me but not this. Re-reading this book about 30 years later I’m less impressed with it than I was the first time around. At the time I read this, I read oranges are not the only fruit, and some thing else which my brain all smashed together. There’s a bunch of books that I read at that time, and I seem to have mush them all together in my brain, because I genuinely believed that the story was different than this. I was directed towards reading this book during a period when I was questioning my sexuality.
A classic in the genre of lesbian literatureīack when I was an undergraduate, I am now retired.
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