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Lipstick lesbians are not that abnormal. Is it the absolute absense of any masculine looking lesbians, or is it the over the top glamor that is irritating the community.
It's not high femme vs butch, it's high femme vs butch vs comfy vs sporty vs classically dressed vs probably other categories I'm missing. You know, like straight women. (There are a lot of butch straight women in the south where I live.) But that's not the issue. It's a soap opera. They do that.
One issue that irritates me is not that they're all ultra-glam but that there are practically no straight people in the universe. Are we incapable of holding an important--even central--place in a show unless 90% of the characters are gay? The show ends up feeling like this weird little bubble.
Plus the acting's bad--and I assume the directing is part of the problem. When you can make Cybil Shepherd look that klutzy, something is wrong.
