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I would definitely not bother. They did the lesbian sleeps with a man trope, showed her sex scene with him and didn't show her sex scene with her supposed love interest. It's lesbophobic to the max.

If you're interested The Sex Lives of College Girls on HBO Max has a lesbian storyline

Ooh, thanks for the reminder! I'd heard about this but forgotten already, it's been so busy. I'd been thinking of giving it a pass, I've commented before about how Mindy Kaling humor isn't always mine but my friend liked this too so I'll try.

And definitely appreciating the lack of spoilers, for something like this, I'm happy to go in not knowing anything or anybody. :)

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The Sex Lives of College Girls and the "Lesbian Who Sleeps with a Man" Trope Causing Community Burnout

Are you tired? I'm tired.

After the first couple of episodes of The Sex Lives of College Girls I found the show entertaining enough, even with its superficial handling of some important issues, like the pressure on girls/women to exchange sexual favours for career opportunities. "Take it for what it is", or something along those lines, was in my original review of the show (now deleted along with all other posts about the show). But there's something that I refuse to "take for what it is" anymore and that is the overdone, dismissive and at this point exhausting old trope of the lesbian who sleep with a man. This trope specifically targets lesbians and no other member of the community. Gay men don't deal with the trope often unless they're portrayed in a fake marriage and other members of the lgbt+ community don't exclude men as sexual partners.

It's a lesbophobic trope so overdone many TV Shows have experienced backlash for it (remember Faking It?), enough that most shows in the last few years have avoided the trope and labeled any character that has sex with both men and women bisexual. As they should. There's of course some that keep insisting it's the early 2000s and use it the trope like Younger, Dear White People and now The Sex Lives of College Girls.

As I said in my original review of the show, TSLOCG has a cool opportunity to tell the stories of a lesbian who is in the closet and deals with having relationships and/or sex with women while hiding that part of herself from friends and family so she won't be viewed differently. But of course they went with the overdone: lesbian but she sleeps with men because...*checks notes* she wants to be popular?

Why is it so much of a big deal? Everyone in the community already knows but let me refresh your memory. The lesbian identity is dismissed, over sexualized, considered a phase, perceived by many men as there to please them and therefore not "real". This trope directly feeds into the myth that lesbians actually want to or at least don't mind having sex with men. A myth that leads to endless online and real life harassment from men. The same men who think they can "watch", "join", ask to "try with me" because "it's just sex".

This is why Mindy Kaling needs to stick to doing her straight romantic comedies. It is better to do nothing than do harm.

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Just this once I was hoping they wouldn't.

So I really enjoyed The Wilds on Amazon Prime recently, a show that is exclusively about a group of girls and how they survive the world? Ground breaking! Silly me was worried it got cancelled so I went to check if there's a season 2 and turns out it's worse than cancelled. They are making a season 2 but added men. Because of course we can't have anything be about just us. Of course. @primevideo and @netflix can always be counted on to turn something special into generic shit. Gonna pretend it ended with season 1 tbh...

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Fear Street Part 3: 1666 dir. Leigh Janiak

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FEAR STREET SPOILERS!!!!

i’m violently sobbing rn

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“When this is over, we will leave this place. We will go far away and we’ll dance every night, then kiss in the broad daylight.”- Sarah Fier

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Best of Fear Street 1666 Twitter Part 1

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Sarah Fier and Hannah Miller in Fear Street: 1666

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FEAR STREET PART 1: 1994 > FEAR STREET PART 3: 1666

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fear street → killers

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Sarah planning her deal with the devil:

Sarah seeing Solomon did first and is framing her:

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when 6 hours chemistry read pays off

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The way they look at each other

they really are bewitching..

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okay but it actually makes so much sense that the Sarah Fier's song was completely wrong. of course this whole thing was about a man manipulating a woman's story to save his evil ass

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Fear Street: 1666 + red moss

The red moss became the symbol of Hannah Miller and Sarah Fier's everlasting love story and I think that's beautiful.

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I love this 🖤