Friday, January 9, 2009

HGTV is do-it-yourself (as long as the bedroom is well decorated)

So I've been watching a lot of HGTV because I have a brand spanking new apartment and want to make it pretty. And HGTV normalizes homosexuality- a gay couple is treated exactly the same as a straight one. Right now I'm watching a forty something male couple touring condos. Our media culture is still weird about different sexualities. Representations of Lesbianism have run the gamit from the flashy L-Word to the aborted relationship on Grey's Anatmoy to House, where 13 had a one night stand with a woman. Most of these representations are characarized by a hypersexuality (Grey's on the lower end). Gay men are harder to find and appear more in reality, homemaking or makeover shoes. Who knows why- there are tons of theories one can make. Did Queer Eye feminize and desexualize homosexual men by focusing it on heterosexuality? Ay yay yay. For now it's just interesting to note the domestic treatement HGTV gives to queer couples with no questions asked.

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