My take on "The L Word"
61“Loving, lying, cheating, longing”… that’s the description Showtime proffers of its show “The L Word,” and it seems to be a very accurate. In the three episodes I viewed, all of which were from different seasons, there was more sex than in any TV show I’ve ever seen (though I guess I don’t watch many contemporary series). I wasn’t fond of the picture that the show painted of “lesbian culture,” and based on gay women I know and information I have read about said “culture,” I must say that the way “The L Word” makes lesbians look – promiscuous, weak, and lustful – is only in an effort to boost ratings.
Several studies, including those by Eldridge and Gilbert (1990) and Murphy (1997) have found that “long-term lesbian relationships tend to be monogamous and high in emotionality, disclosure, and support.” You wouldn’t know that from watching “The L Word,” though. In the first episode of Season 5, Shane (Katherine Moennig) and her girlfriend told the women selling them an apartment about their five-month relationship, and in almost the next scene, the girlfriend walked in on Shane and the women having intercourse with the girlfriend’s son in the adjacent room. That obviously doesn’t say much about the sincerity of their relationship.
Once Season 4 scene that struck me in particular included when a group of the characters were at a restaurant, and Kit (Pam Grier) had just had an abortion, and Tina (Laurel Holloman) revealed that she had had two in her twenties. It was such a casual conversation that made it seem as if sex with anyone at anytime was okay.
Additionally, in a Season 5 conversation when Bette and Tina were planning to divorce, Bette asked Tina how she was getting laid if Tina wasn’t with anybody. That implied to me that the women must always have a source of sex and couldn’t last “a long time” without it. That would explain why they use the word “fuck” for their relations instead of words like “intercourse” or “love-making”; their relations on the show aren’t always out of love, but more out of lust.
In just one episode of “The L Word,” I counted three scenes of sex, two of which included people who weren’t officially together. The show depicts lesbians as beautiful, sex-hungry, cheating women, and while some relationships seemed sincere, such as that between Alice and her soldier mate, the others were only temporary and superficial, which made the collective picture the show gave of lesbians rather inaccurate.
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Very interesting, I never heard of this show.
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To you my love
To you my love for I’ll be missing you evrey step I’ll make.
To you my love for all I left is remmeber your smile.
To you my love for I’ll be waiting to hear again music of your heart when I lay down my head on your body.
To you my love for making my day bright whit your smile.
To you my love I whish I could whipe down your every tear whit my kiss.
To you my love for looking me the way that I only can see by my heart.
To you my love for every feeling that you give to me whit love.
To you my love for making me do more that i even know of.
To you my love for every touch that you give me that bring me closer to you.
To you my love for every kiss I feel inside of my heart.
To you my love for making my feelings stronger day by day.
To you my love for every step that you do that brings me closer to you.
To you my love for because each day was speciale when I was with you.
To you my love for you are unfogethable time in my life.
To you my love for I’ll know that I left the big part of my heart with you.
To you my love for you never left my life as long that I live.
To you my love for bonding me whit your everlasting love.
To you my love I know that we have something special in our life.
To you my love for the memories that you provide.
To you my love for all hugs that we share.
To you my love for my heart is going to explode when you get each step closer to me.
To you my love for I wish to hold you in my arms for always.
To you my love for making me special in your life.
To you my love I whish that our dance of love never ends.
Now I’ll be waiting my love that all of this come true again some day.
Untill then my love I’ll be sleeping whit my eyes open and whishing that I can feel all of that again.
For our love will stay forever in our hearts and we will be together wher ever we are.
To Bette&Tina.
In case noone has noticed, nearly any show that has good ratings is either sexually oriented or covertly sexual. Two men and a boy come to mind, very sexually contented. Maybe the only diff is they cant show the sex scenes on prime time.
By the way, I'd never heard of this show either!
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Cris A Level 2 Commenter 3 years ago
I think the show is a glossy, glamourized take on lesbians on the fast lane. I have lesbo (that's what they want to be called) friends and trust me, they do not watch the show for affirmation of whatever relationships they currently have or to see their lives depicted on TV but for hmm... shall we say "eye candy"?