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Dating, Hats, lesbian, Love, Sex, Stereotypes, Tats, The Real L Word, TV
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It’s Real L Word Season! The second season of this groundbreaking reality show starts June 5th on Showtime. It’s been great for lesbian visibility…but I’m beginning to think that it’s giving straight people the wrong impression. It’s impossible for any show to capture the diversity that exists in our community. So lets take a chill pill and laugh at some of the stereotypes that can be drawn from the franchise we love to hate and hate to love!
1) 90% of all lesbians are hair/makeup artists. How the hell did Illene Chaiken even find so many lesbian hair/makeup artists? Alyssa, Whitney, Romi, Sara, Raquel, etc. Apparently, that’s the field to get into if you want to be a trendy lez.
2) We all have tattoos, at least a half sleeve. I have none! But everyone in the Real L Word universe seems to have millions. The end credits should include the names of their tattoo artists. I’m looking for a good one.
3) Lesbians love hats. This is especially true in the upcoming season of the show. Romi is rocking a pork pie, Cori loves her ascot, Sara only wears bowlers and a smile and Whitney will put anything on her head. Ok fine, maybe this one is actually true.
4) We love having sex on camera! For everyone to see! Sorry to burst your bubble straight male popular. We actually don’t.
5) We don’t have straight girlfriends. Actually we do! They are great because we can’t sleep with them and complicate our lives. So next time you see a lesbian say hi, we are a friendly peoples.
Did I leave anything out? What other misconceptions do you think people have because of the Real L Word?
4) We love having sex on camera! For everyone to see! Sorry to burst your bubble straight male popular. We actually don’t.
Haha, this made me chuckle. Thanks for the read.
This show is driving me nuts! My sister was out with my friends and asked them questions about strap-ons thanks to the gratuitous sex scenes. So funny but what an unrealistic perception of lesbian life! And thanks for stopping by my site 🙂
Hey, I’m liking your blog and glad you posted your opinion on the show. A friend of mine was the one who told me about last year and I’ve been watching ever since.
I like this season MUCH more than the first. I feel the women on 2nd season are way more down to earth (though I realise there is some over lap with first season people). The first season almost everyone (it seemed) made a ton of money and was involved in fashion or television in some way. This season is more about documenting their relationships, their struggles, moving to a new place and settling in (which I hugely relate to) etc.
I do agree the sex element is a bit soft core porn-ish but I put that down to getting more viewers as of course sex sells. No different from the show the L word and Queer as Folk when they were on. I do find it odd though that the women are comfortable being taped in those situations but not just them anyone in general gay/straight on reality t.v. who is ok with being filmed having sex. You can tell though that Saj and Chanel aren’t as comfortable with it as they have not been taped for long when they start getting down. I also appreciated them having black lesbians on the show this time around. This isn’t meant to be a which minority has it worse off, however, it is difficult for gay minorities to be open about who they are because their communities don’t talk about it. Example the black community is hugely homophobic. Good to open up dialogue I would think? The asking about sex, it depends, I talk to some of my friends about sex all the time but some I wouldn’t usually discuss the subject with. I guess people are just curious because as you said they don’t have a realistic perception of lesbian life.
I can understand the show driving you nuts though. I harshly scrutinise anything that is supposed to ‘represent’ black women because I find that it is often very inaccurate.
Hahaha I summed this show up as: DRAMA not even the best of script writers could have dreamed up with a side order of bad home made porn. I totally agree that they just played on stereo-types and misconception! Great post (: