I couldn't believe what I was hearing at the end of this show. It seemed to me that the show totally chickened out and back tracked the whole thing with these two women. This story was what got me interested in Grey's last season because I have never really been into this show. Medical shows usually don't do it for me (I've had too much real life medical drama). But I thought this show had gotten the guts to do a great story with these two women who are both interesting actors. But between the wimp that they've made George and now this, I probably won't bother to get into this show this season.

 

 

I say we take the warning labels off everything and let nature take it's course.

It seems a little unbelieveable but it does happen.At my last job, there were two women, who were married with kids, who one seperated from her husband and the other left her. A few years later there were rumors they were together, as they eventually moved in together, following one of them confiding in me that they were together, both women were in their late thirties. jessejuju I find the impossible far more interesting

for whatever reason the show is shooting itself in the foot to the detriment of the characters are the best drama on generally comes from characters being at different crossroads. As such no need for crazy villains, but two women who are attracted to one another whose "experiences" will shape how they will address their attraction. Of course there are many ways to get there, but I think that the show really missed the boat by not making Hahn be an unabashed lesbian who's currently single and ready to mingle.

I hope that Creator Shonda Rhimes has something up her sleeve and that her "me too" response might just mean that Hahn not ready to be fully candid with Callie. I read somewhere that Rhimes was doing some due diligence with her story arc for these two with several gay groups, but that guarantees nothing as she may have been looking getting them on board with a story that is indeed "possible" but not the most fertile nor common. Guillermo's Media Guillotine: Entertainment, journalism, politics, and popular culture.

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to read today that....

POTENTIAL GREY'S ANATOMY SPOILER

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Dr. Erika Hahn will be exiting the show in this week's episode under pressure from ABC. The firing of a perfectly cool character who was not even a regular until the public so liked her ballsy approach that she was made into one, now gets the shaft because apparently some at ABC they were not "feeling it" between their two newly-minted lesbian characters.

I've been critical of the execution of the storyline and have been chatting with some of the women on AfterEllen to get their take on it. It was interesting to hear different perspectives on it, but even I never expected to either character shown the door because of a story that may not be working. What kind of message does that send, esp. after they made such a big deal out of it and even approached GLAAD to get feedback on what they were planning to do.

When fans were not into the George and Izzie pairing, they just moved on. Brooke Smith is being treated as if she had behaved like Isaiah Washington as the end result is just the same.

I hope that GLAAD speaks out ASAP and suggest that those of you who watch the show and feel jipped by what has happened join our lesbian and bisexual sisters at AfterEllen who are being quite active in letting ABC know how they feel. They've also de-lesbianized, then de-bisexualized a female character who is waiting the wings on the same show. At this rate, next year's GLAAD report might be down to just the cartoon characters who are allegedly GLTB. And we are talking about ABC, which was given the highest grade by GLAAD as their competitors had nothing to even put out there for the most part. One step forward, 100 steps back. As of a few hours ago even Grey's creator has tried to put a positive spin on what was first described as exclusively an ABC mandate.

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Washington made more than one homophobic remark and was hard to work with, while Smith was a professional who was loved by her costars and had faith in the storyline pitched by her executive producer and hyped by ABC.

With the news coming from California today, it appears that it's not only TV portrayals of gays that has a long way to go. So today's scorecard reads as follows: Gays don't deserve the same rights as heterosexuals either on TV or in life.

 

the problem is that they have now two lesbian characters, and if they have to find a new girlfriend to Callie they will have three lesbian characters, and it's too much gay for a show (and even they have the barely there Joe) (this is ironic).

In fact is an usual complaint of no so much homophobic straight viewers (in fact i have a couple of friends of this kind) when a show become too gay, it seems people tolerates (or even like) a gay couple, but more gay characters became too much for them

 

have them go on their merry ways. Not every leading character has to have a love interest and my view is that just because they screwed this one up so badly, the show need not literally treat a writer's error into the death sentence for a character that had a lot to bring to the show besides her sexual orientation.

The problem that I continue to have with Callie since writer's pen turned her into a lesbian, is that none of her actions make it seem like she likes women sexually and certainly not emotionally. AfterEllen has been following this up with a vengeance.

And if anyone wants to read GLAAD's "response" to this central character being given the boot, check out their website. I am not linking it as I find it a total waste of effort and indicative that the group needs to better focus its resources. The mainstream media and the show's viewers has been more critical of Grey's than anything GLAAD has said.

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