El is shown admiring guys. After the breakup, when she's with Max at Hop's cabin, she's looking through magazines and finds a photo of Ralph Macchio and is shown admiring him. And when Max asks if Mike is a good kisser, El says she doesn't know because Mike is her *first* boyfriend. Its meant to imply that El is thinking of having more (at least subconsciously) and, unlike Will, doesn't see Mike as her forever. But that's another discussion 😂
See, I did think about the magazine thing, but a) Max is the one that brings it up (she says “I see you’ve found Ralph Macchino” or something - El doesn’t really initiate that past just picking up the magazine), b) it’s from S3, and there’s a looooot in S3 that’s very out of character (and it’s pretty obvious I don’t really consider S3 real canon - I mean, look at my actual blog title), and c) I wouldn’t necessarily discount that from being Compulsive Heteronormativity tbh
(This is in reference to the “El might be a lesbian” thing)