Thursday, November 09, 2006

Girl with a heterosexual mind

Wouldn't it be great if we lived in a world where a femme lesbian could walk into any bar she likes and pull another femme lesbian?

Unfortunately the femme seeking femme world is troubled with numerous frustrating obstacles. For a start, feminine lesbians are in a seriously small minority and so femme-femme couples are really uncommon outside of pornography aimed at men. Feminine lesbians often get mistaken for straight women even in gay bars where the words "fag hag" are often whispered. Only the most confident lesbians will chat up women regardless of their apparent sexuality, with the majority of girls only managing to muster up the courage to approach another woman if she also appears to be a lesbian.

I have been reading the paperback Girl with a one track mind to see how somebody went about converting her blog to a novel. It's basically presented as a diary of a sex-obsessed young woman who shags men and then writes explicit and often harsh accounts of their sexual talent. Despite her judgemental style she rather hypocritically offers men the advice
"It's about having fun not your sexual prowess."
Right, so now stop bitching about men who failed to satisfy you.

To begin with, I found the book dull and repetitive. Its author, Abby Lee, gives me nothing to like about her and I have no interest in the sex life of somebody I neither know nor like. I did however, believe that the experiences she was retelling were true, right up until the point where she brought in lesbian content, shortly after which I started to violently bash myself on the forehead with the book.

I'm guessing that her exceedingly heterosexual blog attracted comments which made Lee realise that her male audience would quadruple if she included some lesbian content so she set about making some up. Despite no hints of a bisexual side in the earlier chapters, she suddenly CHOOSES to start looking at other women in a sexual way and is instantly attracted to them. In fact the first woman she looks at asks her to dance straight away even though it's a femme seeking femme situation. Shortly after which, another attractive woman chats her up in a straight club and they retire to the toilets for a spell of rubbing their breasts against each other.

I was furious.

  1. You can't suddenly choose to become a lesbian or a bisexual. Whilst a sudden realisation of an existing homosexual tendency could have been plausible, that is certainly not the impression I got from what I've read so far.
  2. Even if you're very liberal, there would be a period of adjusting to the idea of homosexual sex, especially if you were such a dedicated man eater.
  3. Women don't automatically realise that you're gay just because you decide to be, particularly not if you're feminine, which Lee believes she is.
  4. It's exceptionally unlikely that the first woman you're attracted to reciprocates.
  5. If finding other lesbians to pull in main stream clubs was so simple, there would be so need for gay venues and there certainly is a market for them.
  6. Lesbian sex is two women rubbing breasts? What the f---? Did they also look at a camera and wink moaning "Ooooh! Ooooh!"
  7. She concludes from a quick fumble in a club toilet, that women can't satisfy her because she would "Rather have a a cock between her legs than a woman's thigh, no matter how sexy." I'm so glad that she explored lesbian sex to the full before making that decision.
Even if the lesbian encounters she reports are real, I'd have rather seen a detailed exploration of her sexuality and a realistic portrait of how it is to be gay in the modern world than two or three experiences stuck onto a story that was otherwise exceedingly heterosexual in nature.

2 comments:

leighwoosey&purplemonkey said...

That is a disgustingly boring cover. Presumably the cover designer had a go at reading the manuscript and decided to match it with artwork that was equally trite and unoriginal.

Anonymous said...

Just stumbled across your journal, and ohh how I laughed! Never a truer word said. Thanks for my morning chuckle :)

--Puzzle