the issue of morality ( the l word )
Okay, this is more or less going to be a rant, just as a warning. And a touchy subject, too, but whatever. Not like I've ever not done that before.
I just finished watching episode 11 of The L Word. I have not been that enraged about a fictional story for a good while. I really have to say I haven't. I've been sad, but angry? Not so much.
Oh, and this includes spoilers. Just so I'm not completely inconsiderate.
Okay, so Bette and Tina are a committed lesbian couple who are trying to have a baby. However, they lose it in the 12th week of pregnancy, Tina, who was carrying the baby, was devistated. So was Bette, but she doesn't show it because she's just not the type.
Meanwhile, Bette is getting attacked by a conservative group for putting up art in her museum that the group considers "immoral" and they claim is pornography. To deal with this, the museum decides that they will face the group and its leader, Fae, head on in a televised debate.
During the research stage, Tina, who is still recovering from the loss of the baby, discovers something that may make Bette's case. While working at a volunteer center, she finds that Fae's daughter was in a porn movie because she had run away from home from an abusive father and indifferent mother. However, Bette is reluctant to use this for her debate, so she keeps it as backup.
When the debate starts, Fae clearly has the advantage. She's attacking Bette, art, and the museum. So Bette decides to bring out the movie. Fae, seeing this, decides to strike some more before Bette can get to the video.
Now this is the part I was truly enraged about. Because all the other stuff is pretty much standard conservative stuff, you know? But this sealed it for me.
Fae, having done some research herself, attacks Bette and Tina's dead baby. Yes, you heard me right. Their child who they have just lost about a week ago. Fae says that God took the baby away from them because he didn't want the child to be born into such filth and that he's now in a better place.
Like, I know that there are actually people who will say that. But it just...it just gets to me. It just gets to me that anyone would say that to another person who had just lost their baby. And I really belive that it isn't just a gay thing, too, because I'm sure this Fae woman have still said the same thing if Bette was straight because she was so desperate not to get her name smeared on national television.
But yeah. I cried. Hard. Not because I was sad, but because I was so mad. I know that it's just a TV show, but at the same time, I know it exists in reality, and that's what made me so mad. I don't get how people can use their religion to justify such hate, even more so because I know people who are highly religious who would never, ever do that to someone.
But yeah. That's my rant. Whatever.
I just finished watching episode 11 of The L Word. I have not been that enraged about a fictional story for a good while. I really have to say I haven't. I've been sad, but angry? Not so much.
Oh, and this includes spoilers. Just so I'm not completely inconsiderate.
Okay, so Bette and Tina are a committed lesbian couple who are trying to have a baby. However, they lose it in the 12th week of pregnancy, Tina, who was carrying the baby, was devistated. So was Bette, but she doesn't show it because she's just not the type.
Meanwhile, Bette is getting attacked by a conservative group for putting up art in her museum that the group considers "immoral" and they claim is pornography. To deal with this, the museum decides that they will face the group and its leader, Fae, head on in a televised debate.
During the research stage, Tina, who is still recovering from the loss of the baby, discovers something that may make Bette's case. While working at a volunteer center, she finds that Fae's daughter was in a porn movie because she had run away from home from an abusive father and indifferent mother. However, Bette is reluctant to use this for her debate, so she keeps it as backup.
When the debate starts, Fae clearly has the advantage. She's attacking Bette, art, and the museum. So Bette decides to bring out the movie. Fae, seeing this, decides to strike some more before Bette can get to the video.
Now this is the part I was truly enraged about. Because all the other stuff is pretty much standard conservative stuff, you know? But this sealed it for me.
Fae, having done some research herself, attacks Bette and Tina's dead baby. Yes, you heard me right. Their child who they have just lost about a week ago. Fae says that God took the baby away from them because he didn't want the child to be born into such filth and that he's now in a better place.
Like, I know that there are actually people who will say that. But it just...it just gets to me. It just gets to me that anyone would say that to another person who had just lost their baby. And I really belive that it isn't just a gay thing, too, because I'm sure this Fae woman have still said the same thing if Bette was straight because she was so desperate not to get her name smeared on national television.
But yeah. I cried. Hard. Not because I was sad, but because I was so mad. I know that it's just a TV show, but at the same time, I know it exists in reality, and that's what made me so mad. I don't get how people can use their religion to justify such hate, even more so because I know people who are highly religious who would never, ever do that to someone.
But yeah. That's my rant. Whatever.