That's Gay: Lady Kisses

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Bryan checks out a TV stunt guaranteed to be ratings gold: the lady lip-lock.

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35 comments // That's Gay: Lady Kisses // Video

  • MissKittyKat
  • Wade_White
    • 0
      Wade_White  

    • Oh, and there IS a fabulous male version of Kerry's song, called "I Kissed A Boy" by Chris Savatore, and another vers. by Cobra Starship, and others...

    • 4 months ago
  • Wade_White
    • 0
      Wade_White  

    • Yeah, I'd TOTALLY seen how women lezzing out on TV is acceptable and approved of, but...two guys generally AIN'T! WTF?! How offensive!!!

    • 4 months ago
  • FatherAb
  • CynicalAutophobe
    • 0
      CynicalAutophobe  
    • FatherAb:

      For those people who haven't clicked on that link it's basically a lesbian porn site. I'm well aware that I've just made the idea of clicking the link more appealing to some people but hopefully I'm also saving others the trouble of seeing checking it out if they're appalled by that kind of thing or if they simply want to keep their PC secure from viruses, key-loggers and other malware.

    • 5 months ago
  • Dalrymple
  • CynicalAutophobe
  • Elisha_Lansdale
    • 0
      Elisha_Lansdale  

    • I have often wondered about this issue myself. Is it really progressive if characters are kissing just to increase ratings? I think the first show to do this was Roseanne. She kissed a chick on her show and it was all the rage and controversy in the nineties. But she also had regular reoccuring lesbian characters in primetime too. I dunno.....

    • 6 months ago
  • CynicalAutophobe
    • 0
      CynicalAutophobe  

    • Several people have already commented that Torchwood was a bad example of "lesbian ratings stunts", but nobody pointed out that the most male-male kissing in the show is almost always from bisexual or even straight men (the lead protagonist is bi and his boyfriend claims to be straight - until he started doing his boss).

      Maybe the gay writers of the show (I had no idea they were gay until now, by the way) thought that bisexuallity would be more acceptable for the public, like taking a holiday from being straight.

    • 6 months ago
  • Chip_Dipson
  • Philip_Petrunak
    • 0
      Philip_Petrunak  

    • In all fairness, friends was a very progressive show and while it had a chance for years to exploit the existing lesbian couple for ratings, they didn't.

      Not only that, but in the episode you showed Rachel in no way was pretending to be a lesbian or had any real interest in kissing her. She was just insulted that her companion didn't remember kissing her in collage.

    • 6 months ago
  • EdJoyProductions
  • IAmATVJunkie
  • Livia
  • ArtOfMe
    • 0
      ArtOfMe  

    • It's so true, and it makes me sad there there is no real representation of lesbian or bisexual female characters on mainstream TV that have longterm female partners and aren't just doing it "for the menz." Spot on with this one!

      That acoustic remake of "I Kissed a Girl" at the end was awesome, and as a bi woman I can definitely say that she is totally my type! =)

    • 6 months ago
  • Liam_Whitton
    • 0
      Liam_Whitton  

    • Torchwood is really bad example there! Very friendly to gay males. While it's had two instances of exploitative-trope girl-on-girl sexuality in season one (gay male writers trying to appeal to straight viewers) with Tosh and with Gwen, season two gave us two Victorian lesbian lovers who were very much in love. And Jack is the world's best advocate of male bisexuality ;), with his bisexual lover Ianto in tow.

      Also, the above poster was right about Skins. Seasons one and two - strong gay male character, who was used to titillate female and gay male audiences, with lots of story time and who got a serious relationship in the 2nd season. In the third season, we got a genuine lesbian romance which addressed all the complexities of labelling and all the accusations of being a lezfaux, it being a fakeout, etc.

    • 6 months ago
  • SuperGay
    • 0
      SuperGay  
    • Liam_Whitton:

      I think you're missing the point. A couple of the shows he showed clips of actually have very strong examples of gay and lesbian relationships. That doesn't take away that, at some point, they, too, exploited the ladykiss. Just because you do the right thing doesn't mean you get a pass for doing the wrong thing, too.

    • 6 months ago
  • asherp
  • tabarnhart
    • 0
      tabarnhart  

    • great report - until the Torchwood bit. strongest gay male characters (ok, 2 bi's, and one tried to say it was "just him") on tv. and it wasn't an issue; just their relationship.

      or did i miss something about it being phony?

    • 6 months ago
  • Jasmine_Lester
  • gg87
  • Eri_Soulja
  • lordsbassman
  • Thejordans
    • 0
      Thejordans  
    • Eri_Soulja:

      The focus of this week's episode is that it's a BAD THING that heterosexist politics reimagine and repackage female homosexuality for public consumption. So what exaclty do you mean?

    • 5 months ago
  • blanch
  • unclecharlie
  • Thejordans
    • 0
      Thejordans  
    • unclecharlie:

      Well, considering that homosexuality has a long history of being considered a taboo, resulting in homophobic pejoratives like the one you just used, I'd say that the reason for this "glamorization" (or rather exploitation) is to gain ratings by titilating those male viewers who do find lesbians sexually arousing. I thought that Bryan was very clear about that.
      If you are asking what it is about female homosexuality that arouses non-homosexuals, maybe you should rephrase your question to get that across.

    • 5 months ago
  • Kate6
    • 0
      Kate6  

    • That Katy Perry cover is *so* much better than the original. Any chance of a full length version being made available as an MP3?

      I'm completely serious here.

    • 6 months ago
  • LocusSolus
  • Freakfr0g
    • 0
      Freakfr0g  

    • This is great, it's about time TV was called out for all this lesbian sweeps stunts instead of actually writing lesbian characters.

    • 6 months ago
  • evilliberalbastard
  • SuperGay
    • 0
      SuperGay  

    • Haha, finally a story on the girls!

      It always seems like, when guys are gay on tv shows, they're just gay (and usually in the obvious, flamboyant way). When girls are gay, at least one (if not both) are straight and yeah, once sweeps is over, it's back on the narrow path.

      Thanks for covering this. Hilarious as always!

    • 6 months ago
  • jonathancurrent
  • KDA12
    • 0
      KDA12  

    • There's that amazing UK show Skins. Season 3 they had lots of legit les action.

      And it wasn't any less hot than the fake les action.

    • 6 months ago
  • Thejordans
  • Flyleaf_
    • 0
      Flyleaf_  

    • Marge...lesbian =o
      «I kissed a girl, I like it»
      "=]"
      make sens 'caus I'm lesbian...»
      "=/"

      lol
      [whatever]
      I investigated (by watching comment on youtube o_o) about Marge being homo; Unfortunately, she is not....yet. It's only homer that was day dreaming...
      [/whatever]

    • 6 months ago
  • Thejordans

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