Saturday, March 29, 2008

# 10 Pregnant Lesbians

I didn’t know any of the shows which deal with lesbians but as I read several articles on the site, I found that the TV shows incorporate lesbian: “Cashmere Mafia”, “The L Word”, “Exes & Ohs” and “Satisfaction.” One of the articles which caught my eye was “TV’s Negative Portrayal of Pregnant Lesbians Continues.” This article talked about the some lesbian couple in the show tried to have baby to have real family. And Arthur talked about most of shows described negative aspect about pregnant lesbians. Most show’s story line are based that one person from the lesbian couple tried to have sex with guys who can give her sperm to make her pregnant and after the other person found out, they have some trouble and break up at the end. The Arthur said that the story line is evidence of the way that the hunt for sperm seems to drive television's lesbians to do strange and reckless things (Para. 7). Also these shows don’t encourage lesbians to have baby to keep the relationship and also it is incompatible (Para. 18). I can tell that the reason these kinds of story lines are continue is that still we have some kinds of stereotypes toward to homosexuality.

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