"Lights! Camera! Boring!"

Those Cheatin' Hearts

Not a whole lot going on in this episode, as far as representational politics are concerned. However, I'm going to cave in and talk about Tina and Bette, but not in that gushy obsessed fan way. Just a brief commentary that connects back to open relationships.

So, Bette couldn't handle Jodi's hitherto lifestyle of open relationships and seeing other people, so she forced her into a compulsory heteronormative monogamous relationship. And now, she's cheating on her with Tina! I guess reinforcing monogamy sets the stage for cheating, which keeps the drama brewing, and everyone knows how much lesbians love drama. Pshaw, keep the stereotypes coming!

On a positive note, that was probably the most believable simultaneous orgasm scene I have ever seen. Laurel Holloman and Jennifer Beals know how to work!

Quick, Transform the Nerd!

A while ago I read an article somewhere that argued that the male nerd seems to be in vogue in Hollywood right now, so that goofy, awkward, dorky, tech geek gets unattainable hot chick. Examples cited: Superbad, Knocked Up. Meanwhile, dorky and geeky women are still being made over on the Hollywood screen to conform to the unrealistic feminized object of male desire. Example cited: She's All That. If this argument holds, is the L Word contributing to this trend? Well, look at what they are doing to Adele. She enters the show as a quiet, geeky fan of Jenny and she gets made over into a creepy Jenny look-alike. Change her image, make her chic, make her look like Jenny. What's going on here? On the surface it looks like a Hollywood makeover, but I think there's something creepier going on. Enter pathologized obsession? Hmm...

Looking Ahead to Objectification

It seems as though the promised Turkish oil wrestling is coming up next episode. Hmmm....thin, scantily clad bodies coated in oil, long hair flailing about as women slip around and fall all over each other as eroticized objects for the onlookers' gaze. Is this a show about a group of lesbians living in LA or a porn scene (you know, the porn created for heterosexual men) from "Hot Oiled Lesbians?"