The L word season 2的EP11最後shane跟carmen道出自己的一些“身世”,逐一回答以前因過於自我保護而拒絕回答carmen的問題。想不到shane其實對carmen說的話這麼上心,每條問題都記得這麼清楚。聽完後carmen撫摸了shane的臉然後就走開了……
背景音樂是KD Lang的Love is everything,覺得很好聽,在youtube搜索過來:
歌詞如下:
Artist: Lang K D Song: Love Is Everything (Jane Siberry)
Maybe it was to learn how to love Maybe it was to learn how to leave Maybe it was for the games we played Maybe it was to learn how to choose Maybe it was to learn how to lose Maybe it was for the love we made
Love is everything they said it would be Love made sweet and sad the same But love forgot to make me too blind to see You're chickening out aren't you? You're bangin' on the beach like an old tin drum I cant wait 'til you make The whole kingdom come So I'm leaving
Maybe it was to learn how to fight Maybe it was for the lesson in pride Maybe it was the cowboys' ways Maybe it was to learn not to lie Maybe it was to learn how to cry Maybe it was for the love we made
Love is everything they said it would be Love did not hold back the reins But love forgot to make me too blind to see You're chickening out aren't you? You're bangin' on the beach like an old tin drum I cant wait 'til you make The whole kingdom come So I'm leaving
First he turns to you Then he turns to her So you try to hurt him back But it breaks your body down So you try to love bigger Bigger still But it...it's too late
So take a lesson from the strangeness you feel And know you'll never be the same And find it in your heart to kneel down and say I gave my love didn't I? And I gave it big...sometimes And I gave it in my own sweet time I'm just leaving
之後去了china town吃飯,還特地去了個叫廣州飯店的,要了碗滑蛋牛肉飯,有茶飲,飯後還有水果送,不過吃飯時竟然給我一只叉@@嗯,中國人還是用筷子吃飯比較爽快……一共6塊多,錢已經不是問題了,我從來沒如此強烈地覺得吃飯是如此幸福的一件事。之後乘地鐵到了一個中轉站——期間詢問地鐵的工作人員,但這里真的全法文服務,好不容易他說了兩句英文,結果指著地圖又開始ici vala之類的,搞到我暗自為自己那點少得可憐的法文知識悲哀——出站後開始我的“壯舉”:沿著Boul. De Maisonneuve一直走了五個地鐵站。其實一來因為我買票時搞錯了目的地,雖然發現這里的地鐵出站根本不會也沒可能查票,但幾經思想斗爭下還是做個誠實的好孩子先出站;本來打算再買票,但既然出來了離集中的時間也還有一大段距離,不如再逛逛這個城市吧,難得來到,也不知道這輩子還有沒有機會再來的了。於是就開始走,不過邊走邊看建筑邊看地圖,其實也過得蠻快的。說真的,我還挺享受這種自由自在的拿著地圖就亂逛亂看的旅游方式。不過老實說那時街上基本沒甚麼人,車也是偶爾路過,氣氛其實有點恐怖……
星期一晚上去了打保齡球,其實我也想去看drag show的,從宣傳單張上得知這個星期是pride week,第二天還有個DIY sex toys的workshop——果然很好很強大。專車去保齡球館,結果地點貌似在郊外。保齡球也跟正常的不太同,首先體積較小,其次沒有洞放手指,只能抓起來滾過去……第一局不習慣,經常犯右傾錯誤滾到槽里去了;第二局熟手了,上了一百分。
這 本是我沉溺L word的結果。其實上上個星期六我已經無聊到在學校圖書館網絡搜索有關L word的書,然後發現只有一本Third WaveFeminism and Television里面其中一篇文章分析L word的,就是Candace Moore寫的Getting Wet:The Heteroflexibility of Showtime's The L Word。一早就借回來看完了,覺 得里面一些觀點很新鮮,本來已經開始寫讀後感,但寫到一半發現自己思路混亂,就擱置起來……但很想繼續看有關L word的評論,終於發現了這本全本都是關於Lword的評論文章,折算成人民幣大概100塊吧,已經算便宜的了,於是就連同上面的兩本一起買了,還免運 費……
事情從來不是單面看的。例如說LiLi不敢向男友坦白,可以說她也不接受自己,但我覺得從社會方面看,卻是社會一直以來對性工作的污名化、對性工作者的鄙視,才造成LiLi自己內在的壓力。如果回到那個假設“性和吃飯一樣自然”,我想LiLi向男友坦白并不是問題。但現實是那個假設在現階段不成立,那作為LiLi來說,哪怕她自己以作為性工作者而自豪,但也要考慮如果come out as一個性工作者,她可能就失去男友,因為男友的觀念未必與她相似,這就是她的壓力所在,倒不是她自己看低自己的身份——能這樣站出來為自己的身份說話的性工作者不多,如果對自己的工作不認同的話,如果她覺得自己沒有尊嚴或出賣了尊嚴的話,我不覺得她還會有勇氣站出來。
性/別研究經常會討論到“性”如何被建構的問題,或者看看foucault的書例如history of sexuality看他是如何解構“性”的,可能你會得到為何sex一定要和love一起的答案,又或者你已經看過了吧?或者有機會上queer theory and culture吧,因為講“性”的問題的比重不少——貌似性/別研究的課程不是很多關注在“性”方面,反而“性別”方面比較多,但其實性和性別根本分不開的……當然那課的老師實在很帥,看著至少覺得很養眼^-^
從來lesbian的性愛場面就有個迷思,到底是否為了滿足男人的“凝視”(gaze)拍的,是否從滿足男人需要的角度拍的。誠然,the l word的確開拓了世人對lesbian的一些認識,擴寬了一些“情欲”的空間,在充斥主流價值的社會加入了性小眾的聲音、觀點,而且算是很成功地造成轟動。但畢竟在這個商業社會里,收視是關鍵,我也質疑一些性愛場面可能是為了吸引男性觀眾而拍的。而且,每個season總會出現異性戀來平衡,我會有點不懷好意地認為是為了“安慰”某些觀眾而出現的情節。但無論如何,哪怕是用“性”來吸引男性吧,但如果能讓他們也接受到一些“政治正確”的信息的話,也是可取的。本來,性小眾發聲的渠道就少,而且要在各種各樣的局限下盡可能多地表達自己的意見,盡可能多地吸引大眾聽取,就一定會有兼顧不了的方面,而背後也可能存在著一些策略。
Max這個人物我覺得不錯的,在一群lesbian中加入trans,也表現出一些同性戀者對trans的不理解——其實也是有其真實的一面的。Max在 飛機上對dana說的,他極度想改變自己的身體也是life and death(生死攸關的)的事,我覺得是說出不少trans的心聲。很多人不理解為何一定要做換性的手術,有的女權主義者會責備那些ftm(female to male)不承認或看低自己的女性身份,而queer的理論也不能兼顧到trans(更細一點來說是transexual)的需要,queer認為性別是 不應被固定的,可以去動搖的,但transexual卻很堅定地只想要一個固定的性別——但理論家們都忽略了trans的最深刻的感受,life and death,不是很多人有這種體會,不是一些策略性的理論能關懷得了的。記得看readings何春蕤寫的《認同的「體」現:打造跨性別》時,都忍不住哭…… 最後Max為了幫助女同事得到公平的機會而勇敢向老板說出自己的身份,其實挺可敬的呢~
最後,l word也時不時諷刺以布殊政府為首的極端宗教份子。例如Alice失戀時在電臺節目中亂講布殊,kit去墮胎時遇到極力反對墮胎的有宗教背景的醫生護士而大罵,gloria steinem的女性主義演講,那幾句:“we are not only going to change women to fix the world, but change the world to fix women. and we are going to become the change we want to see in the world. so first tonight then the world”尤為深刻。還有反對對伊拉克出兵也講得不少,特別是tasha的加入後。記得season 4最後一集bette跟jodi重歸於好的背景音樂就是Dear Mr. President,很有意思也很好聽的歌:
歌手:pink 专辑:i'm not dead
Dear Mr. President
Come take a walk with me Let's pretend we're just two people and You're not better than me I'd like to ask you some questions if we can speak honestly
What do you feel when you see all the homeless on the street Who do you pray for at night before you go to sleep What do you feel when you look in the mirror Are you proud
How do you sleep while the rest of us cry How do you dream when a mother has no chance to say goodbye How do you walk with your head held high Can you even look me in the eye And tell me why
Dear Mr. President Were you a lonely boy Are you a lonely boy Are you a lonely boy How can you say No child is left behind We're not dumb and we're not blind They're all sitting in your cells While you pay the road to hell
What kind of father would take his own daughter's rights away And what kind of father might hate his own daughter if she were gay I can only imagine what the first lady has to say You've come a long way from whiskey and cocaine
How do you sleep while the rest of us cry How do you dream when a mother has no chance to say goodbye How do you walk with your head held high Can you even look me in the eye
Let me tell you bout hard work Minimum wage with a baby on the way Let me tell you bout hard work Rebuilding your house after the bombs took them away Let me tell you bout hard work Building a bed out of a cardboard box Let me tell you bout hard work Hard work Hard work You don't know nothing bout hard work Hard work Hard work Oh
How do you sleep at night How do you walk with your head held high Dear Mr. President You'd never take a walk with me Would you
回來後自己去了圖書館,借了History of Sexuality和Sexy Bodies,後者是無意中發現覺得很熟所以順便借下來的。本來想借Butler的書,Gender Trouble, Undoing Gender, Bodies that Matter之類很有名的一直很想看(雖然不知道看不看得懂)的書,但主圖書館沒有,網上查到在Pride Centre有,於是就去找Pride Centre了。還以為是個圖書館呢,真的不找不知道,原來其全稱是GLBTQ Pride Centre,可終於明白為何叫Pride了。因為知道過了開放時間,就沒繼續找了,知道大概方位,希望下次可以去借那些書和看看到底是個甚麼樣的地方。還順帶地發現了有個Women’s Resource Centre,宣傳單上寫的:an inclusive feminist space for women and trans people on campus——最欣賞的自然是有trans在內,果然是加拿大!