I felt the same way about South of Nowhere after Concerned Women for America flipped a shit about it. That show sucked so hard, but I watched it every week until the end out of spite (and because I was young and didn't understand that not all representation was good representation).
I definitely don't remember anywhere near everything and there's probably some YMMV involved, but I was a lesbian high schooler at the time and:
It did kind of bug me that Spencer and Ashley were both constantly flirting not only with guys but with the same guy. Aiden's whole role in the first two or three seasons seemed to be to play a stand-in for every straight male who has ever wanted to have a threesome with a lesbian couple. Now, for the flirting-with-guys-in-general thing, I understand that sexuality is weird and sometimes lesbians do flirt with or have sex with guys for a variety of reasons, but at the time it just felt to me like it was playing right into the "No one under the age of 27 is a real lesbian," narrative I felt like I was hearing all over the place. I felt like it contributed to a culture where young queer women are never taken seriously. We definitely weren't/aren't taken seriously to the extent that young queer men are. When I was around sixteen years old I was in the habit of specifying that I was "A lesbian-
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I agree. OMM is bad enough when they lose and throw a shitfit, if they get a "win" if/when this show is cancelled? Omg, they will be insufferable.
That being said, Idk, I'm not optimistic. I feel like a lot of NBC shows don't even last one season before being cancelled, even if they're fantastic shows. :(
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It did kind of bug me that Spencer and Ashley were both constantly flirting not only with guys but with the same guy. Aiden's whole role in the first two or three seasons seemed to be to play a stand-in for every straight male who has ever wanted to have a threesome with a lesbian couple. Now, for the flirting-with-guys-in-general thing, I understand that sexuality is weird and sometimes lesbians do flirt with or have sex with guys for a variety of reasons, but at the time it just felt to me like it was playing right into the "No one under the age of 27 is a real lesbian," narrative I felt like I was hearing all over the place. I felt like it contributed to a culture where young queer women are never taken seriously. We definitely weren't/aren't taken seriously to the extent that young queer men are. When I was around sixteen years old I was in the habit of specifying that I was "A lesbian- ( ... )
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That being said, Idk, I'm not optimistic. I feel like a lot of NBC shows don't even last one season before being cancelled, even if they're fantastic shows. :(
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