The Chart

Christmas has most certainly been and gone, thankfully, for another year. New Year seems an age past. Yet only now am I enjoying the delights of the L Word, series 1 and 2, which my girlfriend got as a present. Yes, that’s 30 episodes of gay goodness.

I don’t love the L Word, and I don’t hate it. It’s not a bad TV show, the concept is clever. It doesn’t represent my friends and I, and it’s obviously a glammed up version of someone’s experience at some time. Many people have damned it because it doesn’t reflect a certain part of their life – it doesn’t include a butch, they all have too much money, they are all too pretty and wear skirts and make up. It’s not meant to represent exactly the lesbian community, because if it did we would complain anyway.

One thing it does get pretty much bang on, is the tangled web of relationships that most of us seem to have behind us. Not that sexual conquest is anything to be proud of, but it would appear that lesbians can be just as bad as the reputation our male counterparts get. We’re all connected, and while it’s not necessarily as easy to bed someone in real life as it is in the show.

To demonstrate this I did a doodle of what my chart would be like. Sure as anything I’m connected to my best friend in less than 6 moves. She is dating A, A once dated B who dated C who dated D – I was in a relationship with both C and D.

This may be because the community is so small, because we’re afraid of what we don’t already know, or maybe we’re just all slappers.