Glee - Santana's Coming Out Episode Utterly Disappointing

After Glee's sensitive handling of Kurt Hummel's sexuality, viewers had high expectations for the episode about Santana Lopez coming out to her mother and her high school. Unforgettably, the episode was extremely badly written with an offensive choice of songs, uninspiring covers, poor dialogue and an absence of substance. The fact that it was named after a Katy Perry song was the first clue that it was going to be bad.

Finn Husdon sings Girls Just Wanna Have Fun by Cyndi Lauper. Apart from the fact that the cover was so insipid and lifeless that it took me a long time to recognise it, the lyrics are offensive and kind of irrelevant to coming out. Most girls want to have fun, but very few just want to have fun. Certainly lesbianism isn't as shallow as simply girls having fun.

Then, the female characters cover I Kissed A Girl by Katy Perry. If anything, I Kissed A Girl is an anti-lesbian song. It totally undermines the depth of lesbian feelings and the importance of sexual experiences between women. Far from being a gay anthem, homosexuals everywhere despise it.

I'm not the only one to have hated the episode. Many people online, including autostraddle.com point out that even though the episode is called I Kissed a Girl, no girl actually kissed another girl throughout. In fact, Santana's relationship with Brittany is largely ignored, making the episode rather hollow.

To be honest, I'm starting to wonder if any of the episode's six male writers, have ever spoken to a lesbian.