Sex Trends: Glamorous Lesbians [The Cliterati]

Published: June 25, 2008, 10:32 am

There was a time when "real" lesbians were the butches and tomboys. A new breed is toned, taut, sun-kissed, waxed, and clothed in designer labels And yes, they wear lipstick. "It is so accepted now that two glamorous girls can get together" At 11 p.m. on any given Wednesday, the glamazons at Eden are partying Glamorous Lesbians [sometimes called "glam pussies'] are everywhere. Academics call this the dilemma of the "consumable lesbian"; that is, the most palatable lesbian comes to represent all lesbians. This consumable lesbian is pretty, wealthy, stylish, influential, and feminine but post-feminist and definitely not gender-transgressive. Sociologist Jane Ward, a professor at the University of California, Riverside, sees what she calls "an echo effect": The media prefers images of beautiful women, so lesbians put energy into being pretty, and then the media reports that image as the new ideal. "It's the same way that heterosexual femininity is

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