it's funny. when i first got home, people told me about an mtv show called "a shot at love with tila tequila" and how tila is bisexual and so there are both men and women on the show competing for her love. i was vaguely intrigued, and decided to check it out. actually i wasn't intrigued at all, but i watch so much tv that i was bound to catch it sometime. actually, that wasn't even what happened. i just watched one of the commercials and saw one girl pulling another girl's hair and calling her a bitch. and that confirmed what i had expected of the show, that the "bisexuality" was just an excuse to have slutty, jersey-stripper type women on the show for guys to gape at, with the added bonus that they might make out with each other.
when there were only four competitors left, i finally watched an episode. i'm glad i did, and since then i've grown quite attached to the show. this is mostly because it took a turn that i doubt the show's planners expected. namely, dani. the initial female competitors were about 99 percent trashy looking femme-y girls, and one percent dani, the cute butch firefighter. at least thats the impression i've gotten from one of the tila tequila marathons, though i think i changed the channel pretty quickly.
the point is that now, it's down to two people- dani and bobby. i like this because it feels like the show started with the idea of "oh yeah dude, lesbians are hot." and now it's gotten much more to the truth of what is hot for lesbians. or i mean we all like a pretty woman, but then there are the Shanes (from the L word) of the world, who score big in the lesbian world, but get little attention from the larger american culture. and this is, obviously, because men aren't into them. "lesbians are so hot," sure, unless they're butch.
and that's what's so beast about how dani has made it down to the last two. first of all, it's nice to see a hot butch woman getting this much tv time on a non-gay network, especially one that lots of teenage girls are watching. second, it seems like none of the men really took the women as competition for most of the show. and kind of rightly so, because most of them had very little chemistry with tila, and looked like most of their experience kissing women was at strip clubs. but now, bobby is kind of like "shit. this woman has all of the masculine energy i do, but also understands women."
i have a feeling dani is not going to win, the big two reasons being that recently 1- tila was accused of being straight, so obviously she is not dating a woman, and 2- dani was apparently at the go-nyc party, looking quite single. which is sad, because it really seems like she has it in the bag and bobby could have gotten a much-needed kick in the ass. either way, it's nice to see a real lesbian dynamic treated with a decent amount of respect, and it's funny to think that it came from such an unbelievably trashy source.
when there were only four competitors left, i finally watched an episode. i'm glad i did, and since then i've grown quite attached to the show. this is mostly because it took a turn that i doubt the show's planners expected. namely, dani. the initial female competitors were about 99 percent trashy looking femme-y girls, and one percent dani, the cute butch firefighter. at least thats the impression i've gotten from one of the tila tequila marathons, though i think i changed the channel pretty quickly.
the point is that now, it's down to two people- dani and bobby. i like this because it feels like the show started with the idea of "oh yeah dude, lesbians are hot." and now it's gotten much more to the truth of what is hot for lesbians. or i mean we all like a pretty woman, but then there are the Shanes (from the L word) of the world, who score big in the lesbian world, but get little attention from the larger american culture. and this is, obviously, because men aren't into them. "lesbians are so hot," sure, unless they're butch.
and that's what's so beast about how dani has made it down to the last two. first of all, it's nice to see a hot butch woman getting this much tv time on a non-gay network, especially one that lots of teenage girls are watching. second, it seems like none of the men really took the women as competition for most of the show. and kind of rightly so, because most of them had very little chemistry with tila, and looked like most of their experience kissing women was at strip clubs. but now, bobby is kind of like "shit. this woman has all of the masculine energy i do, but also understands women."
i have a feeling dani is not going to win, the big two reasons being that recently 1- tila was accused of being straight, so obviously she is not dating a woman, and 2- dani was apparently at the go-nyc party, looking quite single. which is sad, because it really seems like she has it in the bag and bobby could have gotten a much-needed kick in the ass. either way, it's nice to see a real lesbian dynamic treated with a decent amount of respect, and it's funny to think that it came from such an unbelievably trashy source.
posted by Amanda at 10:38 PM
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