I’m So Sick Of…
Marriage and religion. I know I still keep news about marriage and religion in what else?, but I can’t get away from it. It is what is going on. And I’m sure some of you want to hear about it. So I guess what else? is a way to make us all happy. Just don’t expect me to fill you in when the new Catholic super star is chosen.
I’d also like to never see another commercial for prescription medication again. I think, maybe, we should leave it up to doctors to know what we need. So I mainly only watch premium cable now. I’m fine with a large part of my TV experience being turning on the L Word and watching women peeing (together, one on top of the other and naked).
What was up with that anyway? I’m waiting for some lesbian yay or nay. I just know that there’s got to be some type of divide of opinions over sexual activities involving urine. I don’t know how I feel about more advanced urine activities (whatever those may be), but I couldn’t help but think that scene on last night’s episode was hot. Now we know what side I’m on. The L Word gets a lot of shit for “playing it safe,” but you can’t deny that things are definitely getting a little less safe.
What do you think? Was it hot or not?
I watched that episode with a group of about a dozen lesbians. For the most part, I think the consensus was that it was too intimate. Personally, I’ve never been big into “water sports” (isn’t that what it’s called?) but I thought the scene was done pretty well for what it was — and I never tire of seeing hot naked women kissing. :)
Oh, and as far as “playing it safe” I think they deserve a lot of the shit they get. That scene, it seems to me, was as much about titallation as it was anything and, thereby, was still just another version of playing it safe. In order for the L Word to move off of safe ground it would have to introduce more lesbian voices (and faces and bodies). As long as it protrays lesbians as only femme (ultra femme, even?) it attempts to appeal to our culture’s long-time hang up on good looks and “sexy” bodies. Most of those ideas are heterosexist (or heteronormative) based and many of us (myself included!) still fall prey to Madison Avenue’s (and Wall Street’s) ideas of what constitutes hot.
I’ll never agree with the majority on this. I don’t think the L Word owes the lesbian community anything. I don’t recall it ever promising to be a show everyone would relate to.
I agree with you on that point. It is a show designed to earn money and gain audience viewers. I’m one of the viewers and I love it! But, as far as getting shit for “playing it safe” I think it’s well placed. I don’t necessarily agree that they shouldn’t play it safe, but I do agree that they do play it safe. That was my only point. Hell, if they want a show that *I* can relate to they need to show a transsexual lesbian! ::grin::