ONTD

idk as someone who struggled with her sexuality, and found a lot of comfort in the Brittana relationship/brittany's side as a bisexual (sad, I know) it really does feel like a fuck you.

believe me when i say that i'm the biggest brittana fan out there, but i do love sam's character and a few people can vouch that i was pushing for brittany/sam

but man does it hurt to see the treatment, along with a breakup, plus the line just hitting it right home. kind of makes you think that the acceptance rate of homosexuality + progression really isn't all that high if they're still pushing jokes. and yeah it's silly to say, but i think a good majority are more pressed that we're all getting grouped as crazy and only looking at brittana because they're "hot, popular lesbians"

plus they completely discredit the fact that brittana isn't just "hot, popular lesbians" to people, you know?

I feel like you should always give up on Ryan Murphy shows after the first season. They always start out okay and then just rapidly devolve into this kind of fuckery.

I quit this show after how they handled Santana's being outed by Finn and him somehow being the good guy in the whole thing. I see I made a wise choice, since it only gets worse.

I said it on tumblr (lol) back when I stopped watching, and I'll say it again: Who needs enemies when one of our own (Ryan Murphy) is so good at making a mockery of us? Embarrassing.

It's ridiculous. The whole "fag" episode with Finn and Kurt ended the same way, and I was super pissed off, but I was still way too into the show at the time. But having it happen again and again, and finally with the TRAVESTY that was Santana's outing, I just couldn't watch the show without feeling like I was sacrificing my self-respect.

It's honestly dangerous that a show that has garnered such a young, impressionable audiences is using their platform to reinforce so much crap. And that it is being done by a gay man ... unforgivable.

Whenever theres a post about glee on here, im always amazed that its still on the air.

...Wait, people are annoyed that a bisexual character wants to have a relationship with a boy?

I'm so confused right now. Then again, Glee doesn't make much sense...

i'm convinced the only reason this show was ever successful was because it had gay characters

touche

There is MASSIVE biphobia in the gay community and among "straight allies" that rears its ugly head whenever a bisexual character in the media actually has the balls to hook up with someone of the opposite sex. I think I've noticed that this biphobia is somewhat more prevalent (or, at least, angrier) from the ladies then the gents, as well. I've seen a tremendous amount of biphobia on the internet concerning Brittany being interested in Sam, much of it from folks who ship Brittany and Santana together and who are, in my strong opinion, concealing both biphobia and plain old shipper distress while claiming they're doing it to combat homophobia.

In the next breath, by the way, the straight girls on LJ are usually complaining about Darren Criss getting screentime and the Blaine/Kurt ship, because tearing down the one prominent gay couple on any established network show, that is definitely the best way to fight homophobia!

Not to say that that Glee isn't gross and hidebound, or anything, or that certain characters - Mercedes being at the top of the list - weren't constantly shafted over their run, and I don't mean to suggest this mean little line was called for. But certain aspects of the Brittany/Sam hate specifically have been deeply troubling, to me.

Yes, that has happened. However, there is a tendency to talk about it as though it happens more more often then it does. For example, name two shows that have done this in the current decade. 90210 did it, but fuck 90210. Otherwise it's a trend that's been dormant (in U.S. TV, anyway) since the era of The O.C. and high school-age One Tree Hill. At this rate, I believe that sequence is relevant to American culture only as an excuse for biphobia.

This storyline has already showed a major difference between that cycle and what we're watching happen on Glee: when that happens, the same-sex love interest in particular and in general the idea that the "bisexual" character was ever attracted to the same sex at all has already been forgotten by the time she (because it's always a woman) hooks up with another guy. Compare that to what we saw on Glee this week, where Santana is brought up as an important person in Brittany's life in every Sam & Brittany scene. Brittany's relationship with Sam will not make her straight any more then her relationship with Artie did. (It's my personal prediction that Sam won't even come between Brittany and Santana in the end any more then Artie did.)

Frankly, I think the "lesbian blogging community" is really showing their ass with this storyline, both because they're doing a terrible job of analyzing the actual material and because they are letting some really nasty biphobia show. When I think about how some of the same commenters blew up at the very idea of Emily from Pretty Little Liars daring to interact with a male guest star, I honestly have to think that they've more then earned themselves a little middle-fingering.

This part of the show disgusted me. It wasn't necessary AT ALL

Man, I remember being so mad when in AHS season 1 (which was awful you guys, don't lie) the gay dudes got to have a real relationship and want babies, but the women just made out to get a dude hot.

keeeeeerrmiiiiiiittt

I MEAN

No, I agree. I liked the first episode of Glee, the pilot, but it degenerated so quickly. It was bad long before the end of the first season. It just got worse.

It's leftover love for Popular, tbh

Her character seemed more pansexual than anything.

I'm just waiting for Marley to come out. Gayest face I've ever seen.

what the fuck

One day women and their sexuality will be taken seriously. One day after I'm long, long since dead...

and ryan "i am the zeitgeist of this generation" murphy is at it again

Did a lesbian kill Ryan Murphy's family? Its the only explanation I can think of as to why heroes out of his way to be shitty about them so frequently.

I applaud you tbh.