My god it's Lesbians galore at the moment. Katy Parry is kissing a girl; Lindsay Lohan is locking lips with DJ Samantha Ronson and they've even made Ellen a CoverGirl. It's so darn trendy, I might pick one up myself when I go to get my iphone next week.
One would almost think that the great gay revolution was on our doorstep. But sadly, this latest lesbian craze has nothing to do with gay emancipation. You won't see two male movie stars getting dirty on the Star Tracks pages in the latest issue of Who Magazine (without it destroying their careers anyway)and you won't have Justin Timberlake warbling "I Kissed a Guy" any time soon.
Lindsay Lohan can wander off with a girlfriend without it remotely affecting her career, yet if a gay male movie star is to do the same thing with his boyfriend, he has to act as if he is living in Stalinist Russia with fake Gucci Girlfriend in hand maintaining more decoys than Sarah Palin at a pro-choice rally.
Whilst male homosexuality is seen as a weakness in our modern patriarchal society, lesbianism (particularly the hot lipstick kind) is seen as complimentary. Since the advent of porn, straight blokes have been permitted to enjoy watching chicks get it on. Lesbianism (as long as the chicks are "hot") accordingly has become part of the straight paradigm. For god's sake Ellen peddling beauty products?
Lets not fool ourselves then that this lesbian phase has something to do with the mainstreaming of homosexual culture; it's all to do with straight male titillation…. pardon my pun.
1 comment:
A very interesting, true, and at the same time disheartening observation.
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