#10 Lesbians on TV

After visiting www.afterellen.com, I realized there were many references of lesbians or bisexuals on television. There were actually a lot more shows that have homosexual characters on there then I ever have seen before. Some examples include SATISFACTION, THE L WORD, EXES AND OHS, and several more. The writers give some praise it seems like to the shows who have the main character lesbian, or even put one in the show. For example, they seemed pleased with the British television show MISTRESSES for putting a bisexual woman in the series.

However, some of the writers on this page seem to think that the media gives a negative image portrayal/stereotype on lesbians. Rebecca Beirne a writer for this website, thinks that in SATISFACTION lesbians are portrayed as girls who do "strange and reckless things" after the episode "Jizz" has the women fighting each other trying to find a sperm donor for their baby. THE L WORD actually has a similar situation with trying to find a donor, and the main character also has unprotected sex with an untested man.

After just quickly scanning this webpage, I learned lots about stereotypes of lesbian and how these shows might not doing the best job of portraying this to the public.