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Lez Hang Out | A Lesbian Podcast

417: Husband and Strife

Lez Hang Out | A Lesbian Podcast

Lez Hang Out

Personal Journals, Society & Culture, Tv & Film

4.7545 Ratings

🗓️ 19 April 2021

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Leigh (@lshfoster) and Ellie (@elliebrigida) chat about the age old trope in lesbian films of the “cheating lesbian” who cheats on her husband when she falls for a woman. The list of the times that we see this trope on tv and in films is honestly so long we can’t even mention them all. We talk about the ties with this trope to compulsory heterosexuality and the patriarchy. No matter how this trope is done, even when done in a movie that ends happily like Imagine Me and You, it’s still problematic because it centralizes a male storyline and makes the queer women into cheaters and home-wreckers. There is also a tie-in to the trope of the “predatory lesbian” who turns the straight girl and takes her away from whatever man she’s with at the time. This is a problem for so many reasons, in particular for being bad representation for young queer women who are first exploring their sexualities and are being presented with this ideal fantasy where crushing on a straight girl actually works out. It feels like such a lazy way to handle the story, because there are always options outside of cheating. The trope shows being gay as something that needs to be hidden and done privately. These movies perpetuate not only the predatory lesbian trope, but also the trope of the cheating bisexual. We talk about The Kids are Alright and how horrible it was for reinforcing these stereotypes and showing baby gays truly problematic representation. We hardly ever see healthy gay relationships modeled for us in our media and all of this toxic representation has a negative effect on young queer people who are looking to find themselves and understand their sexualities. Follow along on Twitter: Lez Hang Out (@lezhangoutpod) and answer our Q & Gay at the end of every episode. Leigh Holmes Foster (@lshfoster) and Ellie Brigida (@elliebrigida). You can also join us on Facebook.com/lezhangoutpod and follow along on Instagram (@lezhangoutpod).  Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/lezhangoutpod. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Les hang out.

0:02.0

Let's hang out.

0:03.0

And let's talk about what lessons are found.

0:06.0

Let's hang out.

0:07.0

And let's listen to two heads me and shout.

0:10.0

Let's hang out.

0:11.0

Let's hang out.

0:14.0

Hey, everyone.

0:15.0

Welcome back to Les Hang out.

0:17.0

The podcast that's stronger than yesterday. I left my husband because I'm super gay.

0:25.9

Yes. You're welcome.

0:28.6

You know, I love the leaving of the husband, but I have a lot of thoughts about everything that happens in between.

0:33.6

So we're going to talk about it today. We're going to talk about it. From the West Coast, I'm Lee Holmes Foster.

0:38.7

And from the East Coast, I'm Ellie Bridgeta. To those of you who have been with us through this whole journey, thank you as always for listening. If you're a new listener, welcome. We're excited to have you here. And here's what's happening this week. This week in the Lesdom. This week in the Lesham is a place where we can touch base each episode about things going on with the podcast or otherwise.

0:58.0

And we want to remind all of you that we have a Patreon up for The Flame.

1:02.0

It is at patreon.com slash the Flame Musical.

1:05.0

We have all kinds of fun things on there.

1:07.0

We already have two music previews.

1:10.0

If you want to hear songs from the show,

1:11.8

we're going to have another music preview next month as well. And you can get tickets to our

1:16.3

potential virtual table read if we get enough interest. We also have trivia on April 22nd and

1:23.5

April 25th. It's going to be haunting trivia. That is actually this week.

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