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one of these days i will sit down and fully write out my rant about how mad I am at ilene chaiken for absolutely ruining jenny schecter’s character arc and turning her into an evil caricature of a “spoiled cutthroat bitch” 😤 but that day is not today!!! all i’m gonna say for now is this:

imo, Jenny actually started out (in seasons 1-3 or so) as a really great and nuanced portrayal of a woman struggling to reconcile her adult identity with her newfound lesbianism/bisexuality (and how that journey is complicated by the sexual trauma in her past)… but then the writers totally Flanderized her character into someone who ended up being almost cartoonishly evil, with absolutely no redeeming qualities or relatable motives.

I also get sad about how much most lesbians I’ve met seem to genuinely hate her character, and like… it’s typically accompanied by a level of vitriol that most women don’t typically feel about *any* other fictional character. I can understand not always LIKING her as a character, but my hot take of the day is that lesbians who vocally HATE jenny schecter are generally suffering from some type of internalized misogyny and it makes me sad. On multiple occasions, I've seen women go out of their way to rant about how much of a crazy bitch Jenny Schecter is and how much they hate her character after 'The L Word' came up in casual conversation.

This–

–is not going away.

You can try all you want to get rid of it.

You can try to demand the network takedown shows that allow this.

You can try to ban your children from watching those shows.

You can even try to take the TV away and demand your children read a book.

But here’s what you can’t take away.

You’ve told your kids their entire life that this is wrong, perverted, and disgusting. The worst part being that your kid is even like the characters above.

But for a brief moment, they were told the opposite was true.

They were told that there is nothing wrong with who they are or who they like.

They were told that this one thing about them doesn’t change who they are.

They were told that in this dumpster fire of a planet, that they are not alone.

And at that moment, they are happy and at peace.

And you can’t take that away.

Again, you can try, and for a while, it might seem like you succeeded.

But your child will always come back to that moment.

Hell, your child might even make stories of their own, featuring characters that can give the same feeling they felt all those years ago.

And kids who will see those characters will continue to make more themselves.

To make others feel like they are heard in a way they never did before seeing some goofy cartoon aimed at children.

And that’s why this isn’t going away.