I don't believe people like this exist.
It's "interesting" to hear people's views on how sex/sexuality/heterosexuality/homosexuality/men/women/etc. are connected though..
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2007-12-11
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2007-11-26
Sexuality and gender in BSG-world
A few things I found interesting in After Ellen's interview with Tricia Helfer (6 on Battlestar Galactica) and Michael Taylor (writer of Razor, BSG movie):
AfterEllen: As a writer writing in the BSG universe, how do you feel sexual orientation is viewed in that (albeit fictional) society?
Michael Taylor: I tend to think that in this respect, at least, they're a bit more enlightened than we are, which is partly why we didn't want to make much of a fuss about the idea of Cain being "gay," if indeed she is gay, or if indeed Colonial society places much importance on sexual orientation.
Then why are all romantic and/or sexual relationships on the show (not counting Razor obviously) heterosexual? That seems very odd to me. When I started watching the show, I almost thought that men and women were equals on this show. I really wish they had created a world without gender in BSG, that would have been majorly awesome.
AE: When the Season 2 episodes "Pegasus" and "Resurrection Ship" were written, was Admiral Cain's relationship with Gina/Number Six already in the backstory, or was that relationship created for Razor? If so, why?
Michael Taylor: That relationship was indeed created for Razor, though it developed from our desire to explore whether Cain's anger and revulsion at Gina, so evident in her first appearance in Season 2's "Pegasus," had a personal component. At which point, the idea that the pair had had an intimate relationship quickly came to mind. It made Gina's betrayal that much more devastating for Cain.
I just saw those episodes of season 2, and I did wonder whether they had thought of the back story before that.. it certainly seemed like it judging by how strongly Cain felt about Gina and how she treated her...
AE: Gina in "Razor" seemed to genuinely care for Helena Cain, but she was also clearly doing the work of the Cylons. Do you think Gina had genuine feelings for Cain?
Tricia Helfer: I do believe that Gina had genuine feelings for Cain. Very much like Six (Caprica Six) who cared intensely for Baltar — that didn't stop her from completing her mission either.
Whole Interview
Edit: And geeze Admiral Cain is hot/interesting. Heh.
AfterEllen: As a writer writing in the BSG universe, how do you feel sexual orientation is viewed in that (albeit fictional) society?
Michael Taylor: I tend to think that in this respect, at least, they're a bit more enlightened than we are, which is partly why we didn't want to make much of a fuss about the idea of Cain being "gay," if indeed she is gay, or if indeed Colonial society places much importance on sexual orientation.
Then why are all romantic and/or sexual relationships on the show (not counting Razor obviously) heterosexual? That seems very odd to me. When I started watching the show, I almost thought that men and women were equals on this show. I really wish they had created a world without gender in BSG, that would have been majorly awesome.
AE: When the Season 2 episodes "Pegasus" and "Resurrection Ship" were written, was Admiral Cain's relationship with Gina/Number Six already in the backstory, or was that relationship created for Razor? If so, why?
Michael Taylor: That relationship was indeed created for Razor, though it developed from our desire to explore whether Cain's anger and revulsion at Gina, so evident in her first appearance in Season 2's "Pegasus," had a personal component. At which point, the idea that the pair had had an intimate relationship quickly came to mind. It made Gina's betrayal that much more devastating for Cain.
I just saw those episodes of season 2, and I did wonder whether they had thought of the back story before that.. it certainly seemed like it judging by how strongly Cain felt about Gina and how she treated her...
AE: Gina in "Razor" seemed to genuinely care for Helena Cain, but she was also clearly doing the work of the Cylons. Do you think Gina had genuine feelings for Cain?
Tricia Helfer: I do believe that Gina had genuine feelings for Cain. Very much like Six (Caprica Six) who cared intensely for Baltar — that didn't stop her from completing her mission either.
Whole Interview
Edit: And geeze Admiral Cain is hot/interesting. Heh.
2007-11-20
Kelka love
I have no idea why I stopped listening to The Planet Cast. KC and Elka are fucking hilarious, and you don't even need to watch a whole lot of The L Word to enjoy their podcast (which is normally about the L Word though).
And look at this they were in Curve Magazine:
http://www.theplanetcast.proboards106.com/index.cgi?board=podcast&action=display&thread=1195083261
And look at this they were in Curve Magazine:
http://www.theplanetcast.proboards106.com/index.cgi?board=podcast&action=display&thread=1195083261
2007-10-18
Oh Laurel
I have an illness, an illness I say! This androgyny obsession has gone too far. Want proof? Well, I'm watching The Incredible Adventures of Two Girls in Love, and I'm finding Laurel Holloman cute. Yeah? Told ya? Too far.
I don't know what else to say. You're right Fran, it's not a good movie, but it was cuter and more entertaining than I thought it would be. And yes, I am sort of ashamed to say that.
[Edit: Realized that it must seem as if I think Laurel Holloman is really ugly etc., that's not at all what I meant. I guess it's somewhat an inside joke, I just don't usually like her characters much, and people who know me know that her "2 girls in love"-character is not normally someone I'd find attractive.]
I don't know what else to say. You're right Fran, it's not a good movie, but it was cuter and more entertaining than I thought it would be. And yes, I am sort of ashamed to say that.
[Edit: Realized that it must seem as if I think Laurel Holloman is really ugly etc., that's not at all what I meant. I guess it's somewhat an inside joke, I just don't usually like her characters much, and people who know me know that her "2 girls in love"-character is not normally someone I'd find attractive.]
2007-10-15
Strawberry Panic
I love subtext as much as the next sick-of-heteronormative-movies-y lesbian, I really do. But sometimes it's nice when something actually happens.
I'm not talking about nude sex scenes or even heavy make out sessions (though I guess I wouldn't complain about the last one), but at least crushes that aren't only subtext but actually outspoken? Kissing? I dunno maybe some romantic drama?
Yeah. I like Strawberry Panic. Mhm.
I'm not talking about nude sex scenes or even heavy make out sessions (though I guess I wouldn't complain about the last one), but at least crushes that aren't only subtext but actually outspoken? Kissing? I dunno maybe some romantic drama?
Yeah. I like Strawberry Panic. Mhm.
Lesbian paradise?
So I've started watching Strawberry Panic. And even though people have told me it sucks (*cough* mire *cough*), I am really starting to love it.
We've got three all girls boarding schools, where the girls from all three schools sleep in the same dorms. The characters aren't super original, neither are the storylines really, some relationships are kinda weird etc.
BUT.
There are only female characters in this show, they barely even ever mention boys and it's all about relationships/crushes/etc. What this leads to is that lesbianism becomes the norm. All the characters we meet have crushes on the other girls, and they don't even mention that it's girl/girl love and relationships.
Like I said, in this show and at these school lesbianism seems to be the norm (at least so far, I haven't seen the whole show). They don't even mention homosexuality – or heterosexuality for that matter – and we seem to be living in a world with only girls. Or, I suppose, a world without gender.
(I just wish Amane Ohtori would be promoted to a regular on the show...)
We've got three all girls boarding schools, where the girls from all three schools sleep in the same dorms. The characters aren't super original, neither are the storylines really, some relationships are kinda weird etc.
BUT.
There are only female characters in this show, they barely even ever mention boys and it's all about relationships/crushes/etc. What this leads to is that lesbianism becomes the norm. All the characters we meet have crushes on the other girls, and they don't even mention that it's girl/girl love and relationships.
Like I said, in this show and at these school lesbianism seems to be the norm (at least so far, I haven't seen the whole show). They don't even mention homosexuality – or heterosexuality for that matter – and we seem to be living in a world with only girls. Or, I suppose, a world without gender.
(I just wish Amane Ohtori would be promoted to a regular on the show...)
2007-10-07
Hakura my love
I do love androgyny – right now more than ever. I've never had a very feminine body, but I've always looked/acted very "girly" and I really hate it. I should cut my hair but I dunno if it'd work. I should get taller and get muscles. Hm. Fuck.
I have a new major crush. Hakura aka Sailor Uranus. Seriously. And her and Michiru (Neptune), how cute aren't they as a couple? Seriously.
Hakura/Michiru - Androgyny - I'm not a fan of fan videos, especially ship ones, but hey
Faith – if you ever read this – isn't she the kind of girl you'd have a character crush on as well? Do you watch Sailor Moon?
What can I say, I want to watch Sailor Moon season 3 forever and all the time. Thank you Susanna and Jenni :)
I have a new major crush. Hakura aka Sailor Uranus. Seriously. And her and Michiru (Neptune), how cute aren't they as a couple? Seriously.
Hakura/Michiru - Androgyny - I'm not a fan of fan videos, especially ship ones, but hey
Faith – if you ever read this – isn't she the kind of girl you'd have a character crush on as well? Do you watch Sailor Moon?
What can I say, I want to watch Sailor Moon season 3 forever and all the time. Thank you Susanna and Jenni :)
2007-07-25
Not enough man loving, not enough man hating
Well. We all know that it's a problem when something happens to not at all be about men – or even for men really.
As lesbians who never reference their oppression or even their sexuality, Tegan and Sara don't have men to lash out at, put up with or gripe about. This may be why their uncommonly detailed love songs are so short on drama - a riddle worth pondering, because their keyboard-heavy, New Wave-ish music is also uncommonly catchy. When Sara changes up a chorus with a melodically climactic "But I promise this/I won't go my whole life/Telling you I don't need," or Tegan caps a verse with a hook that goes, "All I need to hear is that you're not mine," your musical impulse is to empathize, if not identify. But the objects of their romantic ambivalence remain distant - the focus is the singer's feelings, examined rather than indulged. Tune seekers will admire many of these songs - "The Con," "Nineteen," "Back in Your Head," "Like O, Like H." But that doesn't mean they'll fully connect with them.
Source: Rolling Stone
As lesbians who never reference their oppression or even their sexuality, Tegan and Sara don't have men to lash out at, put up with or gripe about. This may be why their uncommonly detailed love songs are so short on drama - a riddle worth pondering, because their keyboard-heavy, New Wave-ish music is also uncommonly catchy. When Sara changes up a chorus with a melodically climactic "But I promise this/I won't go my whole life/Telling you I don't need," or Tegan caps a verse with a hook that goes, "All I need to hear is that you're not mine," your musical impulse is to empathize, if not identify. But the objects of their romantic ambivalence remain distant - the focus is the singer's feelings, examined rather than indulged. Tune seekers will admire many of these songs - "The Con," "Nineteen," "Back in Your Head," "Like O, Like H." But that doesn't mean they'll fully connect with them.
Source: Rolling Stone
2007-07-20
Viagra, my love
"[Viagra] doesn’t make men into good lovers. For many women, it has merely highlighted the incompetence of their lovers. More crucially, it has laid bare a female secret that many men never knew. Penetrative sex does not necessarily give women the best orgasms – and, depending on which study you read, anything from a third to 52% of women never have orgasms in this way."
How is it possible that it is 2007, and people have presumably had sex since like forever – don't ask me why – and they are only now starting to [officially] realise what women like when it comes to sex. Not to mention that they do, and that it isn't actually depending on a penis. (How many friends haven't asked me if I – being a lesbian – don't feel like there is something missing? "No, my friend", I tell them, "you just haven't realised yet that there is just something in the way.")
"We are realising there are important differences in sexual arousal and responsiveness between men and women, and considerable variation between individual women – more than there is in men – in their sexual responsiveness."
"The sexual-dysfunction industry [says that] there must be something wrong with the clitorises of these women. A recent paper in the US Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology described an earnest effort to investigate “pudendal nerve integrity” after discovering 48.2% of its sample had “desire disorder, arousal, orgasmic or pain disorders”. Not great if you are selling a drug that gives men urgent erections."
Only yesterday I was listening to the news on the radio, and there was a new report that many young women experience pain when having sex (I'm assuming they're talking about penetration here, but I obviously couldn't ask them – them being on the radio and all). Now, they think it might be their birth control pills 'causing it. Considering how many problems related to sex are connected to those pills – loss of sexual appetite (gotta love that phrase), pain, not being able to orgasm, hey the list goes on – you'd really think they'd come up with something better, no? Apparently not – it is still the birth control recommended to young women. But pain? Hello. This girl was talking about how it hurt every time for years and years – and no one asked her if she ever considered not having penetrative sex. (Sweetie, you know, he doesn't have to put it there if you don't like it.)
"Katherine Angel, a Cambridge philosopher researching cultural attitudes to sexual problems, thinks [most women are uninterested in penetrative sex], whatever their age. “Women are being told they must have a male attitude to sex. It is becoming procedural and technical, and if you are not having lots of penetrative sex and reaching a climax, you are dysfunctional. The majority of women fail to reach orgasm during penetrative sex, which must mean the majority of women have a disease. The drive to narrow the definition of what sex is about is very worrying.”"
Source: Link
(All quotes are from this article, but I didn't quote even a third of it, read on though, it's interesting.)
How is it possible that it is 2007, and people have presumably had sex since like forever – don't ask me why – and they are only now starting to [officially] realise what women like when it comes to sex. Not to mention that they do, and that it isn't actually depending on a penis. (How many friends haven't asked me if I – being a lesbian – don't feel like there is something missing? "No, my friend", I tell them, "you just haven't realised yet that there is just something in the way.")
"We are realising there are important differences in sexual arousal and responsiveness between men and women, and considerable variation between individual women – more than there is in men – in their sexual responsiveness."
"The sexual-dysfunction industry [says that] there must be something wrong with the clitorises of these women. A recent paper in the US Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology described an earnest effort to investigate “pudendal nerve integrity” after discovering 48.2% of its sample had “desire disorder, arousal, orgasmic or pain disorders”. Not great if you are selling a drug that gives men urgent erections."
Only yesterday I was listening to the news on the radio, and there was a new report that many young women experience pain when having sex (I'm assuming they're talking about penetration here, but I obviously couldn't ask them – them being on the radio and all). Now, they think it might be their birth control pills 'causing it. Considering how many problems related to sex are connected to those pills – loss of sexual appetite (gotta love that phrase), pain, not being able to orgasm, hey the list goes on – you'd really think they'd come up with something better, no? Apparently not – it is still the birth control recommended to young women. But pain? Hello. This girl was talking about how it hurt every time for years and years – and no one asked her if she ever considered not having penetrative sex. (Sweetie, you know, he doesn't have to put it there if you don't like it.)
"Katherine Angel, a Cambridge philosopher researching cultural attitudes to sexual problems, thinks [most women are uninterested in penetrative sex], whatever their age. “Women are being told they must have a male attitude to sex. It is becoming procedural and technical, and if you are not having lots of penetrative sex and reaching a climax, you are dysfunctional. The majority of women fail to reach orgasm during penetrative sex, which must mean the majority of women have a disease. The drive to narrow the definition of what sex is about is very worrying.”"
Source: Link
(All quotes are from this article, but I didn't quote even a third of it, read on though, it's interesting.)
2006-09-30
Kissing Jessica Stein - wtf?
Fuck. Around the wedding scene I was thinking the movie would be a little bit too sugar sweet if it ended right there right then. But hell I would have prefered that – cause fuck...!
Ok, you know how on Amazon they have all these lists that members have made, with – for example – "my favourite musicals", "greatest TV series boxsets" and "looking for lesbian films to watch?". Yeah, there are quite many lists with lesbian movies, and there are a few movies that tend to show up on most of them. One of these – and one of the only ones I hadn't seen to this morning – is Kissing Jessica Stein.
Now, I always expected this one to be rather corny – probably one of those movies where you sit through two hours of waiting for the two girls to kiss, and finally in the last scene, they do. That's what I expected, and I honestly didn't feel like Kissing Jessica Stein was a movie I had to see. Well, I expected wrong – and this I realised almost immediately as I started watching. The characters where a lot more interesting than I thought they would be – actually, Jessica herself reminded me a lot of a girl I dated for a few months a while back – and the story wasn't quite so much an i-love-you-but-i-don't-wan't-to-be-gay story as I had imagined.
So, I was happy with what I found. Girl hasn't dated in a while, doesn't like the men she does date, meets girl, likes girl, is a bit awkward but hey it's all cute and it all goes relatively well. Pretty much all through the movie. Yayness – right? Personally, I didn't use to be into the whole sweet-love-story-with-a-happy-ending thing, I don't really see myself as that person – but to be honest, I completely adore movies like But I'm A Cheerleader and Imagine Me & You. I need those unrealistic tales to give me hope yet make me feel depressed and lonely – and I trusted Kissing Jessica Stein to do that same thing for me! But oh my Joss did it disappoint me.
When I say disappoint, I am obviously not talking about the actual movie as much as the ending. Turning Jessica straight was a bad idea – bad bad bad. And the ending just didn't make sense – what were they trying to say with this? This certainly wasn't the simplest way to end the movie, so they must have had some kind of point in doing so. Not only does the couple we have wooted for the entire movie not end up together – but our main character falls for the man she has been not interested in for years and years and years? Uh uh, bad decision.
Again, I would have prefered it if they ended it after Jessica's brother's wedding – when everything was almost annoyingly sweet – 'cause basically... this was no fun.
Yes I am being childish, but I really expected this to be a silly lesbian happy ending story – that's what I wanted to see... Ah well, I guess I'll have to rewatch Imagine Me & You for the tenth time then. See ya babes. Mhm.
2006-09-28
We just never stop being fucking hilarious, do we?
I just never stops being funny, does it? I could mention something about kindergarten-behaviour and childishness, but it's not even that simple. We're doing a film course, and I've got 20 year old boys – uh, yes boys – in my class who can't stop giggling over words like "homodiegetisk" and "analeptisk" (Swedish words, mind you, but you get the associations).
I know what you're going to say – they're insecure about their all sexuality, right? But no, it's not even that simple. They keep making gay-related joke after gay-related joke, and can't stop associating every single word to gay things, making every sentence "homo erotic" – but they keep stressing the fact that there's nothing wrong with being gay, and they aren't afraid to act in a way they themself think seems gay. If they were acting in an at all homophobic way, I would be offended and confront them about it, but they're just being kids. Though I can't but wonder – when will they stop?
It is all fun up until some point. Hey even I can laugh about that stuff – even I? It's not like what they're talking about has got anything to do with me, I'm not a gay man, and they hardly ever mention gay girls, guess that's a whole different thing for guys.
Yeah, as I said, it's all fun – or at least ok – up until a point. Then it just stops being fun. Or so I thought – apparently they don't think so though. At some point it starts becoming lame, at another point it's just pointless, and then, at the third point, it's just annoying. Come one, is this what it's going to be like all year? 'Cause in the end, this will be too much, and I'll just have to decide on ignoring the whole bunch of guys all together.
I guess my conclusion is that, even though my classmates are all nice, funny and "gayfriendly" people – and even though I certainly am no gay man and their words don't hurt me the least – it will always bother me when people I normally like turn gays into something to laugh at. It can be funny, sure, everything is at times – but when gay people and "the gay lifestyle" become the only things you actually laugh at...? Nah, it just ain't cool no more, sorry guys...
I know what you're going to say – they're insecure about their all sexuality, right? But no, it's not even that simple. They keep making gay-related joke after gay-related joke, and can't stop associating every single word to gay things, making every sentence "homo erotic" – but they keep stressing the fact that there's nothing wrong with being gay, and they aren't afraid to act in a way they themself think seems gay. If they were acting in an at all homophobic way, I would be offended and confront them about it, but they're just being kids. Though I can't but wonder – when will they stop?
It is all fun up until some point. Hey even I can laugh about that stuff – even I? It's not like what they're talking about has got anything to do with me, I'm not a gay man, and they hardly ever mention gay girls, guess that's a whole different thing for guys.
Yeah, as I said, it's all fun – or at least ok – up until a point. Then it just stops being fun. Or so I thought – apparently they don't think so though. At some point it starts becoming lame, at another point it's just pointless, and then, at the third point, it's just annoying. Come one, is this what it's going to be like all year? 'Cause in the end, this will be too much, and I'll just have to decide on ignoring the whole bunch of guys all together.
I guess my conclusion is that, even though my classmates are all nice, funny and "gayfriendly" people – and even though I certainly am no gay man and their words don't hurt me the least – it will always bother me when people I normally like turn gays into something to laugh at. It can be funny, sure, everything is at times – but when gay people and "the gay lifestyle" become the only things you actually laugh at...? Nah, it just ain't cool no more, sorry guys...
2006-07-05
Imagine Me & You
So, I finally got around to see Imagine Me & You, and I really wish I could say that this movie is awesome. Or, like... good. I had been looking forward to this for a while, I knew it involved girl-girl love, and I knew it starred Piper Perabo and Tony Head (whom Рbeing a huge BtVS fan - I completely love), but that's about all I knew. Now, can't say this movie disappointed me, because I honestly didn't expect much from it. It was very corny, partly extremely clich̩, but also Рin my humble opinion Рvery sweet indeed.
The story wasn't much to put in the christmas tree (hey, gotta love Swedish expressions translated to English). Girl married to guy, girl falling for girl, girl not knowing whom to choose. But there weren't that many ups and downs here, and we of course know from minute one that the girls will end up together at the end. Honestly though, the obviousness of the story doesn't bother me. What bothers me are the clichés, the lack of girl on girl action (hey, I'm not asking for much, but even the few kisses we actually get to see, look slightly awekward and "omg I'm kissing another girl"-ish), and the lameness in the end.
So, all in all, I can unfortunately not say that this is a good movie, that I advise you all to buy on DVD this very moment. But, I have to admit I kinda love Imagine Me & You. I love the sweetness of it. And wtf is up with people going all "ooh" over Piper Perabo? Lena Headly was way more attractive and would make my knees weak in a heartbeat – she alone would make this movie worth seeing (a few times) in my opinion. While Perabo feels like a typical and slightly fake sweet girl, Headley's character feels real and alive.
Ah what the hell, if you like this kind of movie – watch it, go buy the DVD, enjoy the kinda funny sweetness. Just don't expect a super great movie, this isn't it, far from, but it can be worth seeing none-the-less. Mhm.
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