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Heather, m'love, there's only one thing wrong with your critique of The L Word: the scenes about being surrounded by hopelessly lame straight people are drawn from REAL GAY LIFE. Trust me, I was just in the Midwest visiting relatives who full-on expected me to dance-monkey-dance like Will and Grace's Jack and Karen.
And it's not just straight people - let's look at J's letter:
>I'm a lesbian ... (and believe me, I've looked) ...
>is like finding a fat gay guy who has to
>beat potential suitors off with a stick.
>They are as rare as Sasquatch.
Clearly J hasn't watched enough L, because in Season 3, Episode 14, at the 15:37 mark (historic moment!) was the first & probably only reference to the bear community ever, the community where handsome, intelligent, smokin'-hot fat gay guys DO, in fact, have to beat suitors off.
Sasquatches are real. And they have back hair. AND it's delicious. So where's *my* stereotypical, badly-written soap opera?
(Oh... yeah. Professional wrestling.)
