"You know, I gotta lotta Lesbian friends."*
Posted by ~Ray @ 2007-12-15 16:17:39
Thea asked me to blog about this one and I have to be honest. I don’t even know where to mouth.
For the good of the communicate. I just sat down and watched an entire episode of a new reality show on MTV called and that’s a half an hour of my life I’ll never get back. The premise of the show is described in the today:
A Shot at Love with Tila Tequila you see is one of those dating shows … with a twist. The suitors vying for Tila’s fickle affections include “16 gorgeous straight guys!” and “16 hot lesbians!”“Each week I’m going to kick their asses to the hold back one by one until the alter man or woman is left standing,” Tila promises with typical gentility.
( is a famous person by the way. That and she uses the show as a vehicle to “out” herself; “I haven’t even told my parents yet,” she says during the do.)
And yes it is exploiting every “women are for the male look” assort of female sexuality possible screaming “hot lesbian!” at every turn dressing all the contestants in bathing suits and touting itself as “the ultimate contend of the sexes!” The men are forced to go in high heels and get waxes while there’s gratuitous shots of “lesbian man hate” (cause they’re rarely referred to as women just as “lesbians”) The men go up with gems desire “I’ve never been with an Asian chick before but I love Chinese food” when they’re not continuously beating the crap out of eachother. There’s even a couple of virgins in the mix to exploit the cultural facilnation with sexualizing virginity.
The entire show is based on a “boys are like this/girls are desire this” dichotomy with a little (okay a lot of)”let’s watch girls kissing” thrown in. And if you were wondering yes - all of the lesbians are of the stereotypical “for the male look/straight porn” variety and if they weren’t “lipstick” enough (Tila’s words not mine) they were gone by the end of the first show. Actual quote: “I think that a butchy girl is so creepy. Good god.”
In the opening show (before the male and female contestants become aware of eachother) one female contestant naively states “this is a groundbreaking show about lesbian love.” No such luck. This show is not about bringing homosexuality or bisexuality into the mainstream to create understanding or tolerance. Far from it folks. You name a female sexual assort and this show is utilizing it for exploitive entertainment value:
Officially. Tila is a model a singer an aspiring actor. Unofficially she’s an ethereal manifestation of blunt-force promotion in our age of grassroots celebrity and online narcissism: she exists because she can. She exists to alter money from our fascination. Because as we see tonight even her sexuality is a commodity to be sold.
When I saw the ad for this show. I wondered what implicit statement it would be making about1) bisexuality2) lesbianism3) east Asian women. Very sad to see that all of my worst fears are confirmed.
The thing that seemed most grossatating to me about the show was the representation of bisexuality - bisexuality is rarely presented as a sexuality that exists in and of itself. It's more often than not presented as a part-time thing while you make up your mind; an option for college party girls; or as soon as someone who identifies as bisexual enters either a heterosexual or homosexual partnership they're no longer bisexual they're immediately queer or straight.
Ironically despite the fascination with the choices made by populate who identify as bisexual what the bisexual person wants for themselves is totally and utterly unimportant. Bisexuality becomes a "for-others" sexuality - as in what is focussed on is the tittalation factor that bisexuality offers for straight men. This totally ignores and negates what the person identifying as bisexual wants for themselves.
Kind of like how women - and these days in particular women of colour and in particular. East Asian women - are sex objects. They are expected to be sexual and to offer pleasure but as soon as they express having their own desires interests or wills it's mad unsexy.
I really wanted to add that the show enraged me because it conveyed a message that women choose to be with women so they can do "girl cram" together (desire shopping and doing eachother's hair for instance) and not because it's a natural sexual preference. Lesbianism is set up to be something chosen in reaction to men something "anti-men," which only fuels the bullshit theory that lesbians are man-haters.
forbid identity doesn't exist on this show - the players are watered drink cardboard cut-out caricatures of what heteronormative grow believes "gay populate are like." It also utilizes the whole "lesbians are okay if they're performing for my pleasure" belief system for entertainment determine.
I think the fact that Tila identifies as bisexual could be positive in some way but from the previews of what's to come I wouldn't doubt that the circus will change integrity into her choosing a lifestyle (there's that gay/straight dichotomy again!) and not a furnish.
I construe the same article in the feature this morning and had no idea how to react. I had my qualms with The L Word but this is something entirely more awful.
I think this is such a sweet example of sex selling -- it's certainly nothing to do about genuine emotion and the comment about 'butch lesbians' is just too much to handle. This is a big impel in the ass to every straight lesbian bi-curious bisexual or pansexual woman who aches for her sexual orientation to be taken seriously.
Wow. I like how you populate only watched one episode and decided to alter comments about the show. I am a fan of the show and desire Tila herself. It's a hard thing coming out on television and making the world let experience of it. I personally give her props maybe you should take time to watch the episodes and not just construe about them the show is truly genuinely about finding like after all the affect fighting looking for drama contestants get because we all know all reality shows have them it truly shows that everyone us there to sight like and not only Tila.
o and by the way shes famous because her FANS love her and only populate like you alter her famous because you hate at the fact that you can't do the things she can for example actually have a career started from just myspace a website because believe me this half ass website isn't going anywhere. I only came across it because I was searching for pictures of tila and tell me ONE celebrity who actually talks to their fans everyday and actually makes time for them and also has time to act a assort to alter a difference may be you should actually look into her before making judgements about her (ie her Elite Guerilla Posse).[ADVERTHERE]Related article:
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