If you've never watched an episode of Glee in your life, now you absolutely MUST. Season 2 episode 18, born this way is hands down the single most awesomest episode of TV history ever created ever ever! Outside of the singing and dancing that usually fills up an episode of Glee, this episode also had a powerful message, PSA if you will. And I guess you either have to be gay or struggling with some form of self doubt or self hate to truly appreciate this episode but the theme was self acceptance. And the message was that no matter who or what kind you are, you are worth loving. By you and by others. And the thing you most hate about yourself might just be the thing that someone else loves you for or admires you for. In a totally awesome way the show was able to make a character admit that she's a lesbian, another to say she's bi-curious and all the others to admit that one thing they were embarrassed about themselves. And they did it with style, wit and humor.
The gay and lesbian visibility on this show is amazing and this episode just made me love it even more. At the end of the episode they perform Lady Gaga's "Born this way" and everyone is wearing a T-shirt that has the one thing they're most embarrassed about written on them. Before they go on stage, Brittany goes to Santana who confessed her love to Brittany few episodes ago and shows her her T. It says "I'm with Stoopid" with an arrow pointing up (as Britt's just not the sharpest tool in the shed). And Santana shows her her's "Bitch" which she is but Brittany is not impressed. She made her a special T which says "Lebanese". It's supposed to say lesbian but Britt can't spell...It was so cute and so awesome and so sweet and just amazing. Santana's like "But I'm hispanic...wait, is that supposed to say "lesbian"?" Brittany goes on to tell Santana how proud she is of her and that she should be too and not to date a guy. Santana tells her she has no business meddling since she didn't tell her she loved her back. Brittany gets angry and tells her that she loves her, more than Santana loves herself and if she did she'd wear the T and dance with her and then storms out.
I was just like AWWWWWWW...That's still all I can say. EVERYBODY should have a Brittany in their lives, especially if you're coming out. A friend like that could help the process so much. And to have someone in your life who just loves you unconditionally just the way you are...We all need and DESERVE that.
In light of my recent "realization" that I am in fact "Lebanese" I bought 2 t-shirts declaring that. The country, as it is muslim, probably does not appreciate all the recent lebanese converters but oh well. My Tees should be coming after I come back from USA.
I am gonna board the Brittana ship now... I gotta gay. GO! I gotta go!
3 comments:
I'm pretty sure that to stop the 15 year civil war the country ahad to be anything but Muslim! I'd stake a very large sum of money on the fact that the President is required by law to be a Christian! And there must be some Orthodox in their as well! I'm revising for a Finnish grammar exam tonight so I'm not going to check as I'll spend all night editing Wiki pages again. But no, the Lebanon is not a Muslim country. See what the CIA have to say about it!
Finnish grammar?? Bollocks! I can't even get my own right! Their should of been there! "ahad"=had.
Wikipedia said it's 60% muslim but I really don't care about the numbers as it's in middle east which as a region does not accept gays so whether they are christian, muslim, jews or any other religious groups is not the point. The point is that as nation they probably are not too happy that the word lebanese is used in connection to lesbians. I will never travel to Lebanon so I don't have to worry about death sentence or gay bashing or anything else and I can just be lebanese over here!
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