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31 Jul 2010
Clare Balding took offense to the tone of AA Gills remarks about her while reviewing one of her shows in his TV column in the Sunday Times, and complained to the editor. His response is a lot more offensive than Gill's original review, and she has now lodged a complaint with the Press Complaints Commission.
In his review Gill wrote:
Some time ago, I made a cheap and frankly unnecessary joke about Clare Balding looking like a big lesbian. And afterwards somebody tugged my sleeve to point out that she is a big lesbian, and I felt foolish and guilty. So I'd like to take this opportunity to apologise. Sorry.
Now back to the dyke on a bike, puffing up the nooks and crannies at the bottom end of the nation.
When Balding complained to the paper's editor, his response included:
In my view some members of the gay community need to stop regarding themselves as having a special victim status and behave like any other sensible group that is accepted by society. Not having a privileged status means, of course, one must accept occasionally being the butt of jokes . A person's sexuality should not give them a protected status. Jeremy Clarkson, perhaps the epitome of the heterosexual male, is constantly jeered at for his dress sense (lack of), adolescent mind-set and hair style. He puts up with it as a presenter's lot and in this context I hardly think that AA Gill's remarks were particularly cruel, especially as he ended by so warmly endorsing you as a presenter.
As you might imagine, this provoked an angry response from Balding:
When the day comes that people stop resigning from high office, being disowned by their families, getting beaten up and in some instances committing suicide because of their sexuality, you may have a point.
This is not about me putting up with having the piss taken out of me, something I have been quite able to withstand, it is about you legitimising name calling. ‘Dyke' is not shouted out in school playgrounds (or as I've had it at an airport) as a compliment, believe me.
It may be your job to defend your writer and your editorial team but if you really think that homophobia does not exist and was not demonstrated beyond being ‘the butt of a joke' then we have a problem.
Or as she commented elsewhere:
For God's sake, would he seriously review Stephen Fry presenting QI as a faggot or Evan Davis on Dragons Den as a queer?
Overview HERE, and the Guardian reports HERE.
(Note: Part of Balding's complaint is about Gill's use of the word "dyke" in a derogatory way. Obviously I use the word "dyke" all the time on this blog, but as with all these things, context is everything. I use it because to me, and in my usage, it's strong, and powerful, and used with warmth. In the same way that "homosexual" can often seem too clinical for casual banter amongst ourselves, so too can "lesbian". I like "dyke". It's unapologetic. However, as used by Gill, it's definitely meant to be demeaning. Taken with the tone of his prior remarks, and then following with "puffing up the nooks and crannies at the bottom end of the nation". It's a cheap shot.)
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23 Jul 2010
(thanks Paul)
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20 Jul 2010
In the new well received movie The Kids Are All Right, starring Julianne Moore and Annette Bening as a lesbian couple, the two women watch and get off on gay male porn. The Daily Beast examines the phenomenon.
A few lesbians I spoke to suggested that the members of the tribe who watch gay porn are in fact getting off on a fantasy, in which the man is subjugated and used in the way women frequently are.
As Jen, another gay porn-loving lesbian, put it: "It's a surrendering of male privilege. It throws a monkey wrench into the idea that women are receptacles."
Clinton put it even more bluntly.
"It's about power dynamics," she said. "We're so used to watching men in our lives wield power. Gay porn is an opportunity to watch them get f-----."
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10 Jul 2010
A 31 year-old woman in Ohio has been arrested after she posed as a 14 year-old boy in order to get into the knickers of a 16 year-old girl (who must be a bit of a chicken hawk herself). For three months the girlfriend, and her mother, thought she was a teen-age boy till it all came out in the Yentl wash. She's been charged with corruption of a minor and unlawful sexual conduct with a minor.
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10 Jul 2010
If I was a lesbian embryo I'd be getting worried about now.
First, a couple of weeks ago, science was trying to (dental) dam the flow of lesbians by the use of drugs, because you know, what good have people like Gertrude Stein and Lilly Tomlin ever done? Best to just get rid of 'em.
But now, some other scientists are taking a different tack. They've decided there aren't enough lesbians - well, lesbian mice anyway, but you know where this is going - and have decided to start making more of them.
I think we should let these scientists fight it out - to the death! My money is on the ones with the extra lesbians.
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23 Jun 2010
It'll be hard to beat!
You can read the full sordid story of a love gone sour, a Pride celebration destroyed by snide t-shirt slogans, and lives torn apart by acrimony and an innocent cheerful Snickers bar HERE.
Trust me - you want to read it. How can you not want to read a story that includes the line, "Keep smiling, Cu*t!"
(thanks Will)
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11 Jun 2010
(via Joe.My.God)
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09 Jun 2010
A new study has shown that gay men are more likely to be thin than their straight peers, and lesbians are more likely to be heavy that their straight peers. And the likely reason? Men.
Men place a higher value on thinness and attractiveness "norms", so people in relationships with men are more likely to feel pressure to stay thin.
A new study shows that gay men really are leaner than straight men. And conversely, it also found that gay women tend to be heavier than their heterosexual counterparts.
Boston researchers determined that gay women were more than twice as likely as straight women to be obese, while gay men were 50 percent less likely to be obese compared to their heterosexual counterparts, according to a report published in the American Journal of Public Health.
Read the rest.
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07 Jun 2010
(And she's also a cousin of Pantibar's manager Shane)
"I think I will move to Canada eventually. I said it to my mother last night. I love Canada. The music scene there is amazing. It seems like a better place. It's very sad when you grow up in a country and you get to a certain age and say: "I'll have to leave now because they won't let me get married."
Full interview at The Daily Mail.
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07 Jun 2010
This is the kind of study that Brenda Power & Co will ignore because it doesn't fit with their lazy assumptions about children raised by non-heterosexual parents.
Data from the U.S. National Longitudinal Lesbian Family Study (NLLFS), begun in 1986 of 154 women in 84 families who underwent artificial insemination to start a family shows that children raised by lesbian parents do remarkably well in all areas of development and well-being.
The authors found that children raised by lesbian mothers - whether the mother was partnered or single - scored very similarly to children raised by heterosexual parents on measures of development and social behavior. These findings were expected, the authors said; however, they were surprised to discover that children in lesbian homes scored higher than kids in straight families on some psychological measures of self-esteem and confidence, did better academically and were less likely to have behavioral problems, such as rule-breaking and aggression.
"We simply expected to find no difference in psychological adjustment between adolescents reared in lesbian families and the normative sample of age-matched controls," says Gartrell. "I was surprised to find that on some measures we found higher levels of [psychological] competency and lower levels of behavioral problems. It wasn't something I anticipated."
In addition, children in same-sex-parent families whose mothers ended up separating did as well as children in lesbian families in which the moms stayed together.
Read the rest at Time magazine.
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