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Entertainment Weekly's "entertainers of the year" list leave a few lesbians behindI'm beginning to wonder if I'm watching all the wrong television shows, reading all the wrong magazines and blogs, or just plain out of touch. See, I was thinking that Grey's Anatomy had a huge following with (until recently) two queer women, and it being on primetime on a network made it even bigger news. I thought, maybe, Ellen DeGeneres was someone that even straight people knew. Does no one watch daytime television (or the Oscars) anymore? I guess no one buys People magazine, either. I also thought Bravo was super-gay, and some of its most-loved shows (Top Chef, Work Out and Shear Genius) were basically all about gay women.
And, OK, I know AfterEllen.com is close to becoming RachelMaddowFans.org as of late, but seriously, how can you deny that she has become the hottest political commentator of the year? Entertainment Weekly kind of included Ms. Maddow on their list of "25 Entertainers of the Year," under the umbrella of "Talking Heads" (but points lost for using a picture of Elisabeth Hasselbeck instead of Rachel).
They also kind of included the lesbians of the aforementioned Bravo shows, but that's almost giving them too much credit, since they chose to put all of the men and straight women in the accompanying photo (Rachel Zoe? Seriously?)
Cynthia Nixon was also psuedo-included as one of the "Women of Sex and the City", which, by the way, was one of the largest-grossing movies of the year, so they should probably be right up under Tina Fey (who should clearly be number one instead of Robert Downey Jr).
Perhaps if Out hadn't dissed us so bad by barely including any of our own in a list of supposedly the 100 gay and lesbian women of the year, I wouldn't be so fed up with lists excluding us. But, in the tradition of Sex and the City, I can't help but wonder why it seems like they're going almost out of their way to do so. I mean, they publish the "Ausiello Files" — you'd think they'd read them once and a while, right? Not only did Michael Ausiello keep us up to date on all Callica and Melissa George matters on Grey's, but he predicted Hahn's disappearance and broke the story of Brooke Smith being fired. Grey's aside, it seems like we're here, we're queer, we're easily ignored sometimes. Is it too much to ask that we’re at least acknowledged? I, for one, was not entertained by half the list this year (Katy Perry included). I will acknowledge, though, they did get a few right: Leighton Meester and Blake Lively, Meryl Streep and Elizabeth Banks. Am I being too hard on EW? Submitted by on November 14, 2008 - 3:49pm. |
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Katy Perry
I still don't get that people seem to think that Katy Perry and her song have anything to do with lesbians... 'I kissed a girl' seems to have become like an 'ooh, it's their theme-song' sticker. People keep forgetting what else she's saying, which is clearly NOT gay. Aside from that, I agree with the ones Trish mentioned that were right. Meryl Streep and the Gossip Girl girls are for far better reasons on the list.
In my experience, the song
In my experience, the song would be more apt if the lyrics were, "I kiss the girls. I like it. I hope my family won't hide it."
-Mattie
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yes, you're being to hard on EW...
at least on the Bravo critque. the reality show contestants aren't featured in the photo. just the hosts of the huge competition shows. so to expect a random chefbian to pop up is a bit of a stretch.
my two cents, anyway.
sigh
Yup, yup. There are only bad news about us. Nothing cheery. Nothing to lift my mood. And I'm so f-in fed up with it I'm considering digging a hole for myself and not come out of it 'til spring with the exception of Christmas Eve to see if I that can cheer me up.
Is there such a thing as gay media depression? 'Cause if there is, I'm having it now. And it's only worsened by the fact that it's getting SO dark outside. (3rd time I'm writing this today) Six hours of daylight is not enough! Where is the snow? Grr
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The heartache won't pass.
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Actually...
It's DOCTOR Maddow
Just had to delurk to say that.
Okay, I admit that when I
Okay, I admit that when I pulled this issue out of the mailbox today, I was overjoyed to see Robert Downey Jr. on the cover. He turns me into a giddy schoolgirl. I've read just about every article written about the guy and seen most his movies, and I am just so happy that his life has improved greatly over the past few years. So no complains from me regarding his cover shot (with those dark, puppy-dog eyes) or being #1 on the list.
(Hate the #9 pick, though; those singing brothers whose name I don't even want to type. Hate them and their pretentious, matching outfits!! And #18 had always grossed me out.)
About #10, my issue does have a picture of Ms. Maddow, looking great down there in the corner. Maybe it's just not online?