Posted on 05/07/2005 8:43:02 AM PDT by pissant
We admit it, we're stuck on The L Word, Showtime's frothy drama about fantasy lesbians getting it on in swimming pools and showers all over Los Angeles.
Granted, some of us have it worse than others. Some of us only go so far as to meet Sunday nights for viewing parties with friends. In the morning we rehash over e-mail and phone. But we leave it at that.
There are others among us who go that infatuated extra mile, overwhelming dozens of websites with nitpicking analysis, swooning fantasies and cries for help. Starved to see images of themselves on TV, some (really, too many) lesbians in cyberspace wonder if it's wrong to watch an episode 10 times, to wear out the rewind button on every hot scene, to have a hard time focusing at work, to go shopping and ask, ``Would Bette wear this?''
The No. 1 obsession: Jennifer Beals (yes, that Jennifer Beals) as alpha lesbian Bette Porter, who is all about Jill Sander suits and Stella McCartney pumps. Let's not even get started about that thong. Bette had it all, including a perfect wife pregnant by a perfect sperm donor. But then the wife had a miscarriage and Bette unraveled, ultimately paying the karmic price of a steamy affair with a carpenter named Candace.
Why lesbian fans (yes, other sorts are watching, too) are in the throes of a major love affair with the show is easy enough to understand. The mirror is a powerful tool. This is the first television drama dedicated entirely to the lives of unapologetic urban lesbians. Tonight's episode kicks off the final four of Season Two.
''Finally, we have something that's ours,'' says Yesi Leon, 33, a South Florida party promoter who produces events for lesbians, including a recurring lipstick-and-stilettos fest at Bongos Cuban Café in downtown Miami.
Leon doesn't buy the biggest criticism of the show, that it presents an unrealistic image of too-thin, too-lipsticked, too-coiffed lesbians who appeal more to the fantasies of salivating straight men.
click here for the rest of the article. oops
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/entertainment/television/11469545.htm
I am ever amazed at the general incompetence of written communications these days.
That show has no basis in reality. 99% of lesbians are ugly, man-hating, angry as f*ck, bull-dykes.
Ooooh, Lezbians and doubledongs on tv now? YeeeHaw!
Ooops, no cable!
Incompetent, but apparently successful.
I've known a few hottie Ls over the years. But generally speaking bulldykes are more common.
sounds like you'll just have to stick to the 10,000 or so websites catering to the masses.
pissant wrote:
sounds like you'll just have to stick to the 10,000 or so websites catering to the masses.
-->My computer just limps along on lifesupport, It's caught too many diseases on those websites and my credit cards are maxed out, my cell minutes are maxed out and my hard drive is ready fall off the spindle from the infections, monitor is sparking, keyboard is stuck, mouse is shakyyyy! /Sarc!
Never heard of it.
I believe it all except the sarcasm tag....
How much you wanna bet that most of the viewers are guys sitting their with a beer giggling everytime the casts gets naked.
I was in Key West during women's week (the lesbo fest) two years ago and I didn't see any lesbians that looked like that!
I'd watch it if I watched TV. Beer in hand of course.
I've seen "The L Word" when ShowTime was tempting non-viewers to but their package.
Thinly plotted "Sex And The City" Soft Girl-Girl Porn for the Masses.
All the major players are too pretty Drama Queens living in a fantasy world far beyond their limitations. I kept on wondering when even one grossly overweight, mulleted, gap toothed Diesel Dyke would be seen in the background.
Didn't see any. Even when a new Girl Bar opened and the full spectrum of gay guys were invited inside.
Jack.
Maybe Rosie will make a cameo next season.
ShowTime may have to cough up some serious bucks for Rosie, pissant. ;-)
The "money shot" during the two episodes I watched comprised the girl group "Betty" playing a set at the Girl Bar's Grand Opening.
Jack.
I admit it, I've never heard of it, and don't plan to wtch.
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