Been thinking about my favorite scene-to-date from
Season 2,
The L-Word:
Episode 2; Tina in that sexy gown/slip, crying when the memory of Bette's loving laughter floats through her bodymind while she's pleasuring herself after the Lap Dance.
That was so real. Grief and desire, pleasure and pain, memory and the present all braided together in fiction as they are in reality.
Real....
The L-Word's portrayal of West Hollywood Gay Town Lesbiana is delectable to this viewer — all of it — but some of it is so
not real. Like, where are the butches? Lotsa
kikis and that's cool. Quite a few femmes and that's well, delectable. But hey! Where are my buds? I mean, gorgeous-lanky-hip as she is, is Shane butch? She's definitely attracted to femmes, which might be a clue, but everybody in
The L-Word is attracted to femmes, right? OK, maybe not Kit. Love her flirtation with Ivan, how it's developing, the issues at play. And OMG, Season 1's
last episode with that flirt song in the parking lot. Seduction is seduction is seduction ... is hot!!! But where I come from,
Drag King does not equal butch — not that anyone's pretending it does,
L-Word wise. And Bette a butch? Not on your life.
I dunno,
Is Shane butch?In any case, wanna play Dyke Media Friday? Post something on your blog (subject DMF/Real?) and either trackback to this post or leave a comment, whether you blog or not.
I know it's audacious of me to start a meme when I'm only two weeks into this blog. Oh well. A woman's gotta do what a woman's gotta do....
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