Re: [buffywantswillow] OT Rant on the L word RESPONSE

["Drew" <imjusthangingout@xxxxxxxx>]

Carol,

I would like to take this time to say to you...

TELL IT LIKE IT IS!!!!

I could not agree with you more if I had said it myself. I mean, where is
the love?

Drew
----- Original Message -----
From: <Carol.Clarke@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <buffywantswillow@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, October 25, 2000 2:20 PM
Subject: [buffywantswillow] OT Rant on the L word


> Ok I have had something on my mind for about a month and watching Xena
this
> Sunday I finally figured out what it was. Yes I am going to start a rant
> with Xena and with any luck I will end with Buff. And Yes this is a rant.
> Consider yourself warned.
>
> As I was watching this really wacked out ep of Xena I noticed the sub text
> was gone. No the are almost right out there. Lucifer, (told you it was
> wacked) mentioned that Xena has a blond girlfriend. And it is clear he
> doesn't mean best friend style girlfriend. And yet there Xena was lipped
> locked with Lucifer. Ok so she was tricky him into taking over hell for
her.
> It was Xena just go along with me. The thing is, the show no longer sub
> text, Gabby and Xena's relationship is out there yet almost every other
ep,
> Xena is locked lip with some guy. It's like the should have little lights
go
> on that say, and because we may be seen by the right or the left, her is
our
> heterosexual moment. And that is ok too. Straight people need good role
> models as well.
>
> Sorry got lost from my point and I did have one when I started. So anyway
in
> the ep this week Lucifer and Xena are just about ready to kiss and do
> whatever after the fighting stops when Gabby hits Xena up side the head
with
> her cloak. The message is clear, Xena, get dressed before I get anymore
> jealousy. So the show had great text moments. So what.
>
> So were are the L words, like Love or Lesbian. Xena has kissed Gabrielle
at
> least everytime one of them dies. I that a theory about that. I see there
> charters deaths as a medifore for orgasm. Everytime it was really good one

> of them dies. Last year it was so good both of them died. At least when
they
> die they use the love word. Like it is only ok to say, I love you when
your
> dying in the show.
>
> Now onto Buffy. Willow may be out but no L words. Love or Lesbian or even
Bi
> (Yes I know it doesn't start with L so sue me)
>
> And another thing, (Rant remember) Have you noticed how hard Joss has bent
> over backwards to say, Willow is bi. Dracula was sexy? Please. I had a
crush
> on Giles. The Jealousy look on Tara was priceless in the Dracula ep. Which
> leads me back to Xena.
>
> Before I continue, I want to say in the real world bi is bi. Like gay or
> straight. But I am not talking the real world. I am talking TV.
>
> And on TV in Xena land, it is like the show is say, see Xena is Bi she
likes
> men, nothing to look at here move along. As long as no one uses the L
words
> every thing is ok. Not that using the bi word would be any better received
I
> think. So Xena can kiss Lucifer on national TV, no big deal. And Xena can
> kiss Gabrielle when one of them is dead or dying. No big deal. But never
> ever ever use the l-word.
>
> And now I am worrying about Willow's shelf life on Buffy. Now that Willow
> hinted at the L-word. (But it's ok, she had Oz. And thinks Giles and
Dracula
> are sexy so it must be ok. ) Because as soon as they kill Tara off,
Willow
> will either get herself killed off or go back to straight land.
>
> And now that the season is about a month old Willow has had less time on
> screen then Spike. She has not really been that active and she has hardly
> been on camera and I am wondering. Did she use the l-word on Letterman and
> that means she must die.
>
> I miss Buffy Willow moments. I miss there fun talks. I miss Buffy hugs and
> kisses. I miss the arm and arm walks. And I know it is because there was a
> l-word used by someone and now there can only be Xena death moments. And
> that was my rant for now.
>
> "I wear the cheese it does not wear me." Bald Man, Buffy the Vampire
Slayer.
>
>
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