Does It Really Matter?

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.theguardian.com/media/2015/mar/25/lesbians-tv-and-film-call-the-midwife-last-tango-in-halifax

/// Look, this isn’t jealousy thing. I am as chuffed as the next lesbian when one of “my people” win an award. And even though a relatively few lesbian-themed movies have been nominated for awards, let’s face it: the nearest a lesbian has got to an Oscar was when Ellen Degeneres hosted them last year. ///

/// So, just where have all the lesbians gone? ///

[douglas9401]

No it doesn't matter. Just somebody shouting 'look at me'.

[andy-hughes]

I would suggest that the amount of lesbians featuring in the film and TV world is directly proportional to the amount of lesbians involved in the top jobs in these areas.

Film and television is made largely by men, and it is a fact that a higher proportion of gay men work in the arts compared with other culturally influential professions.

Logic dictates therefore that a lower proportion of women would infer a lower proportion of lesbian women involved in the commissioning and production processes, so that is reflected in the lesser interest in finding roles and outlets for lesbian characters and scenarios.

This view is based entirely on opinion, so as always, I would be interested to hear the views of anyone with experience in this area - so to speak!

[shoota]

Down south?

[Old_Geezer]

Where have all the lesbians gone, long time passing?
Where have all the lesbians gone, long time ago?
Where have all the lesbians gone?
Young girls have picked them everyone.
Oh, when will they ever learn?
Oh, when will they ever learn?

[sp1814]

Old_Geezer

Sometimes your posts make me howl with laughter.

This is indeed one of those occasions.

[dunnitall]

Bring in a third gender (lesbians and male homosexuals) and there will be no discrimination it really should be that simple and much easier for those born as per. There has GOT to be a third gender and it has got to be realised for goodness sake.....it really would stop all the problems that occur for those who are not heterosexual surely??

[Retrochic]

If there was a legal third gender you would have to prove you were born Gay, otherwise your sexuality would be classed as a ' lifestyle preference' and not a gender. Very few Gay people are physically hermaphrodite .

[DTCwordfan]

India and Samoa have a third gender, retro, I forget the Samoan term as it's a mouthful to pronounce. In Indian, its Hijra.

In both cases, the reference is to MtF transvestism/transsexuality.

As to where are the lesbians? Upstairs in bed, AOG.......

[andy-hughes]

DT // As to where are the lesbians? Upstairs in bed, AOG....... //

Steady on .....!!!

[Peter Pedant]

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/// So, just where have all the lesbians gone? ///

Oh they're still there - just keeping a lower profile..../ keeping their heads down.....

and what was it like in the Good Old Days AOG ? surely they didnt then have films like 'Les Biches' or the Killing of Sister George ?

Hey - girls and boys we could put on a lesbian version of Wolf Hall and call it something like um - The Six Wives of Henry VIII ......

[Retrochic]

DTC yes sorry my mistake gender is used with reference to social and cultural differences rather than biological ones.

[DTCwordfan]

well I was going to add 'tongue in cheek' but I'd better be careful, andy. Folk may misconstrue that.....

[tamborine]

I watched Indian summer with gkids, when a dogging scene came on..... they told me she was being rogered - lol

[B00]

"the nearest a lesbian has got to an Oscar was when Ellen Degeneres hosted them last year."

Don't think Jodie Foster will be pleased to hear you say that.

[Peter Pedant]

DTC you mean you agree with the MP who said:

I cant stand it when compulsory lesbianism is rammed down my throat again

[dunnitall]

Just shows you how times have changed tambo......I didn't even know what a homosexual was at 18 let alone 'being rogered'. OMG....what a sheltered life led lol.

[Retrochic]

I remembering hearing 'homosexual' on the news when I was about 11 and had to look it up in dictionary -lol!

[retrocop]

tambo
Indeed your kids have old heads on young shoulders.That is precisely the terminology that would have been used in the days of The Raj and much earlier.
Nowadays it would be ***gin* or shaf**ing. :-)

[ludwig]

I don't know what she's talking about. I've got hundreds of lesbian themed movies at home. I keep them in the shed where my wife won't find them.

[tamborine]

retrocop, eldest gdter is 12 boys are 10 & 8. I'd never heard such words at that age. I hoped by sharing Indian Summer with them, they would learn a bit about colonial life....alas