A few days ago I was reading Grey's Anatomy recaps (I don't watch the show anymore, but I used to like Calzona)And here's the thing:Why are we lesbians treated so badly? Why do we keep on getting those terrible storylines?The lesbian who sleeps with a man, or the lesbian who dies and her partner commits suicide (Dear Shonda Rhimes:stop it please)or the lesbian who ends up being murdered? (and still Ilene I haven't forgotten)
See, of all the years I've been out, neither of my friends have "become straight",tried to get pregnant, killed someone or worse killed themselves.
Don't you think we deserve better?
If you're trying to tell the world that we are, after all, human beings,why do you portray negative stereotypes?(Now I'm not saying that wanting to have a baby is negative ok? I'm just saying that not all of us are struggling couples trying to get pregnant)
We need visibility,I get it, but is it too much to ask for good storylines?
I truly hope that this will eventually change.
In the meantime, I'm grateful for the variety of lesbian web series,(which may not be mainstream)but they are doing a great job, at giving us the much needed visibility.
I agree with this totally! Well said! Television and movie media seem to want to make an issue that lesbians lead strange lives where we are stuggling with our sexuality and always fighting to lead a stereotypically "normal" life when in truth for most of us our lesbianism is just part of what makes us who we are and not all that we are. I have been an out lesbian since i was 13 and i have never once questioned my sexuallity or suffered internal struggles because of my lifestyle. Lesbians in fact lead very normal lives. We get up, go to work and pay bills the same as everyone else. We don't wake up in the morning and think "I'm a lesbian" I don't even think about my sexuality at all. It's just there.
ResponderEliminarthank you Lenniblue! and yes, you're so right,imagine waking up everyday and thinking "oh yes I'm a lesbian"
ResponderEliminarI hope one day people will understand we're just regular people.