Popagandhi

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 — 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 — who discovered, loved, and came out — 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 — 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.