Couch Potatoes
January 11th, 2006 | Published in food and music, soundbites | 14 Comments
We were sitting around at home watching old episodes of Sex and the City, when we got to the bit where Samantha is in the midst of a lesbian relationship with Maria. Speaking about the relationship to the rest of the girls, and the dwindling amount of sex, Samantha says: “All lesbians do… is take showers and talk about feelings.”
At this point Z erupts into raucous laughter, and can’t stop for the next.. couple of days. She still hasn’t stopped. She still thinks that’s the most apt description she’s heard since coming over to The Dark Side. Which doesn’t bode very well for my.. reputation, does it? Or the lack thereof.
The L Word swings back with the premiere of season 3, with everybody’s favourite LA ladies ââ¬â and all their ladies. The L Word has been an important milestone for us, by showing us all the good and all the awful too. I’m particularly convinced that our generation ââ¬â who discovered, loved, and came out ââ¬â with Bette, Tina, Dana, Alice, Shane and Carmen (and the rest of them), will demand and expect more from our future. While they’re not exactly role models, they approximate the real life events and challenges we face: dating within The Chart (i.e. incestuously), friendships, affairs, the cheating, our fears, religious fundamentalism. I’ve seen bits of myself in nearly all the characters, in most of the situations. Even if there was nothing else I could glean from the series ââ¬â I can at least be thankful for all that eye candy.
Speaking of The L Word, I’m suffering from the fate of possessing a copy of the first episode but being prohibited from watching it, because I can’t watch it until The Queen does.
Z: “If you watch it before I do, you’re going to be distracted when we watch it together.”
I protest that I was under the impression that this is what all entertainment is supposed to achieve. Since she didn’t like the showers and the talking about feelings.
Z: “But.. I don’t want you to distract me! I want to finish watching it.. and you never let me!”
That’s one more hit for my reputation. My girlfriend doesn’t want to be distracted (because there are hotter girls on screen). My chart will probably hit new lows once the community gets a whiff of how completely undesirable I am. Then again, not adding to the Chart is the point, isn’t it? Shane supposedly becomes monogamous this season. If Shane can do it. All of us can.
January 11th, 2006 at 1:33 am (#)
As I’m waiting for MacRumors to update I’ll quickly ask…why is it that all the men in The L Word are assholes?
They introduce a male character, he’s an asshole.
January 11th, 2006 at 2:24 am (#)
can’t wait to catch season 3 of the l word! all the babes drools haha, be thankful tat at least u have a gf to watch it with. i don’t even have one even if i wanted to :P cheers!
mark: mark so happens to be the jerk in S2, keke
January 11th, 2006 at 2:30 am (#)
i enjoyed S3E1. let me what u think of it.
January 11th, 2006 at 4:50 am (#)
Jer: I know! And he was an asshole too.
Remember Dana’s sports agent? Asshole.
Bette’s father? Asshole.
Bette’s boss who replaces her at Helena’s whim? Asshole.
Marina’s husband? Asshole.
Tim? Wet blanket/Lesser asshole.
You only get away with not being an asshole, or deranged, or weak, on that show if you happen to be a gay man.
Maybe season three will prove me wrong, I’ll know in the six months it takes to cross the Atlantic.
January 11th, 2006 at 1:35 pm (#)
maybe, just maybe, mark, what is on screen approximates the truth as we know it.. :) there being a higher no. of guys being assholes in the first place..
i’ll let you know about season three after friday.. when the ban is lifted.
January 11th, 2006 at 2:47 pm (#)
What abour Alice’s lesbian man? Oh wait but he’s a lesbian-man man not a man man. Less an asshole.
January 11th, 2006 at 8:33 pm (#)
Yes, yes girls lets hate the hetro males. Z: The moment “Lesboman” whipped out that sex aid and wanted to do it girl on girl lets just say that he didn’t do himself any favours. ;)
See what happens when you put a bunch of women writers in a room together? They can’t write men, while all a man has to do is take a male character, strip it of reason, accountability, the self control required to keep it’s mouth shut and not talk about it’s feelings, and hey presto I give you woman. ;-P
January 11th, 2006 at 8:59 pm (#)
hey, what about all the male screenwriters who can’t write women either.. :P c’mon media has been heterocentric for so long. give us some of our airtime. :) after all, we’re entertaining you too, at the same time.
January 11th, 2006 at 10:16 pm (#)
All right, just this one show. Then it’s back to straight land and ignoring problems instead of talking them out.
Hopefully this season we won’t have to put up with too much of Jenny’s bullshit, her dull fantasy sequences last season almost had me reaching for the remote.
January 12th, 2006 at 8:47 am (#)
I know this is gonna come as a surprise to some of you, but I think one show that portrays gay relationships rather appropriately is Buffy The Vampire Slayer. Admittedly, its primary concern isn’t to do with studying the gay culture, but I think it was really brave of the writers (all heterosexual) to develop Alysan Hannigan’s character (Willow the witch) from a bumbling hetero girl to a kick-butt powerful Wiccan lesbian.
Unfortunately, no one watches that show!
I’ve always wanted to watch Six Feet Under too because one very interesting element in the show is the inability of the patriarch in the show to understand his son’s homosexuality. I actually prefer watching shows with predominantly heterosexual characters grappling with the issue of homosexuality rather than shows that are gaycentric.
Ok, i’m rambling on too much. Hopefully whatever I just said isn’t too incoherent.
January 20th, 2006 at 1:23 pm (#)
Im making an “L-Word chart” of my own and was hoping to get more supporters.
January 20th, 2006 at 1:24 pm (#)
of course I should add you don’t have to be gay or bi to add to it.
February 10th, 2006 at 5:20 pm (#)
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