I post about charlie brooker’s series on television a lot, but it is invaluable in understanding how shitty things actually are and it is HILARIOUS. He does a specific episode about reality tv but I am having a hard time finding it. Enjoy this segment on advertising:

The whole series is on youtube for free because bbc doesn’t seem to give a shit if we rip off their programs in the us. Enjoy.

Another thing that gets me, is how if you’re bisexual girls seem to see you as a slut/pervert. Or at least, they do where I live. I told, maybe, two of my closest and most trusted male friends that I was bisexual, BEFORE my close female friends, and they went totally and utterly batshit insane.

The two guys reacted by telling me I was brave for coming out, and that I probably have more confidence with girls than they ever will. The girls responded with a short ‘oh’ and a nervous giggle. See the difference?

If you’re actually bisexual, you get your sexuality questioned due to the inordinate amount of ‘fakers’.

Equally, most of the guys haven’t been to plesant about it. I’m still in a same-sex school right now, and we have to go down to the boys’ campus to do art and graphics. We also spend our break there. It’s utterly shit to have people screaming ‘OI LESBIAN, LESBIAN, GET YOUR TITS OUT FOR US’ and ‘HEY, YOU, WANNA THREESOME WITH ME AND MY GIRL’.

Sometimes I utterly give up on humanity.

Girls think I’m a whore and a faker. Guys see me as nothing more than some exotic sexual beast; ready to fuc anything that moves. I’m not tarring everyone with the same brush; but isn’t it time we just accept people on who they are, in terms of personality?

RANT OVER.

Honestly, I was oblivious to the performance of bisexuality. As I was coming out, I kept reading about bi-phobia and the marginalization of bisexuals and transgender folks within the IQTBLG community. I was trying to think of an instance of performed bisexuality and couldn’t come up with anything (not being familiar with porn). And lo and behold: Tila Tequila gets a show. I see.

Why on earth would people pretend to be queer–something that I’d been trying NOT to be since I was six? (don’t worry, I’ve since dealt with the majority of my internalized homophobia) Do hetero women so desperately need sexual validation from men? I thought, that’s really sad.

BI/PANSEXUAL RANT:
Now it just pisses me off. So, awesome– check it out: prejudiced straights hate us once they realize we’re not just making up our attraction to the same gender, and prejudiced queers hate cause we’ve got ‘teh heterosexual privileges’ (And we’re lovin’ it, right!?? – -Hmm, nope, not so much. Bi Invisibility is a damning closet I only visit when in hostile Bible-belt range).

Both groups think bi’s are flakes since we’re just faking it, like Tequila’s straight girlfriends (and that stupid comic-strip is the perfect example of bi-prejudice). Some queer people think its easier to make a pit stop at bisexuality on the way to fully coming out as lesbian/gay. This means, I too must be confused or in denial of my lesbianism…I just need to sleep around a bit, then I’ll figure it out! Honestly, I would love to “just” be a lesbian. But life ain’t tidy like that (also for this reason, I unfortunately cannot be a Fundamentalist Christian. It’s so much easier not to think). My world isn’t about “Either/Or”–it’s about appreciating people all along the gender spectrum and especially those outliers who plot themselves on other planes.

Tila Tequila and Co. have co-opted my sexual orientation. But that’s probably for the better, since the concept of bisexuality implies that gender is binary. Too bad, pan-sexuality makes it sound like I wanna hump everything, including the living room couch. (Although, if you could see those sexy cushions, mmm, baby…) That’s why I don’t call myself bi/pansexual; instead, I say I’m Queer.

(My sincerest apologies for all the punctuation.).

Anyway, I remember in the first episode of Boston, where they showed clips of their admission tapes, and there was Montana rubbing lotion on her pasty, thick legs, talking about how she’s a feminist and doesn’t shave her pits. It was amazing. Would that EVER fucking fly now?

Seriously, what happened? It used to be at least tolerable.

She’s a problematic role model as well. She thoroughly objectifies herself in pursuit of male attention, she sits as a prime example of the problem of women warping their own sexuality to please men, and she pretends that the whole thing is empowering, that she’s some kind of example that women ought to want to emulate. Too bad only about 1% of the population meets the criteria to be able to do that, and that’s after tons of plastic surgery.

I still don’t really get what “femme-hating” means, myself. And I don’t get why discussing ONE woman who is not truly bisexual but pretending to be bi for money and fame is all of a sudden a decry against ALL bisexual women.