Are lesbians a dying breed? This year onward L Word.

Are lesbians a dying breed? This year onward L Word, there was disturbing tend that's emblematic of a abundant wider problem. Don't get me wrong--I've been watching The L Word loyally for all three seasons, and up until newly I've appreciated many things about the point out Particularly in season 1--the characters were with equal reason well drawn; I cared about them and the story lines. They were ludicrous and irreverent. Not to mention that I was infinitely grateful of the like kind a program--all about lesbians, made at lesbians, looking at the world from our perspective--existed at all. And still right now I'm wondering (and I know I'm not alone here): What's going on? With small in number exceptions--for example, when Rose Troche writes and directs--I cast off the TV each week, and my partner and I rant and rave in great distress.

Where have all the lesbians gone? Gone to men now, (almost) each one. We have Tina, going back to men after eight years with Bette. We have Alice, sometimes with men sometimes not. We have Jenny who left her abusive fiance for the highly hot Marina (who turned gone out to be married to a man!), still unable to say she's a lesbian. And now to top it opposite Jenny is with a woman, Max, who wants to become a man and who assumes to be as abusive as Jenny's ex-fiance. Continuing with the run Max also sleeps with a man.

I am not, according to the way, antibisexual. But when half the characters in the alone lesbian show on television are not lesbians, you've got to awed curiosity It is called The L Word, after all.

that not anyone think I'm being unreasonably critical, on what account not look at Queer as Folk for an perspective? For all the dispute QAF garnered, there are certain things for which the makers of that exhibit to cannot be faulted. Not united of its main gay male characters to the end of time slept with a woman. The point out was about gay men and remained veritable to this premise. (The QAF farmers could have portrayed bisexual men clearly a reality in the gay world. Instead, they chose to use their limited airtime exclusively for gay story lines.) Nor were any of the main characters killed off--not by dint of drug overdose, AIDS, or cancer. onward The L Word, by contrast, undivided of the main characters who actually was a lesbian--having barely lesbian sex, I might add--died of breast cancer. To be fair, breast cancer is a serious point in dispute affecting one in nine women and the show's creators wanted to make a political impact, which I applaud. The L Word has also been better in portraying diversity than singular as Folk ever was. In fact, QAF was weakest in its treatment of--you dare sayed it--lesbians, who were often quite stereotyp (assuming caretaking parts with the men, interested and nothing else in babies). One of the sum of two units QAF lesbians also went back to men for a while.

on the contrary that was a show for the lads Is The L Word for the girls? Or is it also for the boys--the straight ones? I wouldn't care with equal reason much if there were more in the media for us. Xena's gone Buffy's gone And the Oscars have arise and gone too: Three gay movies, no lesbians. Is it internal chaos that maintains us out of the limelight? Or are lesbians still not marketable? If the former, let's work revealed our issues and fight for visibility. If the latter, ditto!

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