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So my last post sparked some comments that also brought to mind some issues I have with the show The L Word. I’ve voice my opinions openly to them about this but they get shrugged off just like everything else I say. (probably good advice for you too)

I know I’m going to be shunned to the depths of hell for speaking ill of poor Bette, Alice and the almighty Goddess SHANE (picture light shining down from the heavens)… I don’t know what’s going on with the show, nor do I remember much of the first season. I do know that after watching the first season I was SICKENED.

I thought that a lesbian director, up and coming on the heels of Queer as Folk would have used her ideas, smarts, talent, tv air time, etc to put the reality of the world in the faces of America. Nope. She played right into our vaginas. She probably thought Oh hell, if I’m going to do it I better keep em hooked by playing the bongos on their clits. Boy did y’all fall prey to her sexy vixens (of which only 1 was an honest and true real lesbian… well that was the first season I’m not sure that’s changed)

Oh My GOD! gals, get off Shane’s jock she is simply a straight girl with a hair cut and a wardrobe lackey. AND…. if you are a girl trying to be LIKE Shane (I can name 3 right now)to lure in the ladies you are a pathetic soul and you should be counseled. There is nothing worse than seeing a lesbian walking the streets of ________________(insert your favorite yuppy city here) looking like a buffoon… which by the way you do and any educated lesbian with a life and her own check book will recognize.

No where in the world is there a group of lesbian that hang out on a regular basis where one is a famous tennis player, one is a radio jockey, one’s a fucking lounge singer, and the other likes to fuck gay guys up the ass on a desk in the local coffee shop, which is owned by a sexy millionaire. We are regular folks with regular jobs making regular money. We also have real problems that money cannot fix.

I know that the show has touched on some very real problems however, most of the show is centered around who’s fucking who… Shall I sing the opening credits for you? I bet you know them already. Sing them to yourself then confront me on the shows actual meaning.

Girls in tight dresses, who drag with mustaches (<~~I don’t wear dresses or mustaches does that mean I can’t watch the L Word?)
Chicks driving fast on bikes with long lashes
Women who long love lost, women who give (<~long, love, lost?)
This is the way, it’s the way that we live (<~~what driving bikes with mustaches? NO)

Talking, Laughing, Loving,
Breathing, Fighting,
Fucking,(<~~~~~~~Ahhhh the F word…. that’s going to be my new show)
Crying, Drinking,(<~~Because a dyke aint a dyke without an addiction)

Writing, (<~~and a dyke aint a dyke without her penmanship)
Winning, Losing,
Cheating,(<~~~~~~~earlier point made here)
Kissing, Thinking, (<~~as if its a wonder lesbians think at all)
Dreaming.

This is the way, it’s the way that we live.(<~~who? you? not me!)
It’s the way that we live….And Love (<~~~No I don’t cheat on my wife)

I have personally been subject to taunting, ridicule, lost friends and family because I’m gay. My life is not a big orgy and the L Word will never represent the real lives lived by real lesbians or gays for that matter. Yes… there will be comments that ridicule my examples (by those who LOVE the L Word, I’m not frightened) but like I’ve said before if there are 6,602,224,175 (this is an accurate count) on this entire planet, we make up only 1/16 of that and I think we could stand to use a bit more couth (Marked by or possessing a high degree of sophistication) with the shows we use to represent our culture. I’d just assume you take it off the air.

I know I’m playing a bit too much into it but it’s simply a thought. A blog if you will to get the creative juices and proactive thoughts flowing. We shouldn’t stand for shows like the L Word assisting in the oppression of our culture.

We should be fighting and protesting and standing up for our rights just like every woman did in the early 1900’s (late 1800’s in some states) or like the blacks who refused to sit in the back of the bus or refused to use a different drinking fountain. Lets stop enabling ignorant thinking.

Lesbians don’t just like to fuck…. we like to think. We like to make life changing decisions and have a cold beer after work. We go to bed early to be up for work the next day and we kiss our partners ever so gently before we leave being careful not to wake them on our way out the door. We wonder if the mortgage will be paid on time and if the truck’s oil needs changing. We don’t worry about fighting, fucking

UGH!