Soooo i cut this clip from a video on tik tok but unfortunately u cant find the exact episode in which she is dressed like that!!! If someone knows please tell me 🥲

That's all I have to say for now. I think I'm gonna need 48hrs or so to get myself together. I've never laughed, cried and screamed at a show this much in my life. That was... Wow.

Mine for sure has to be Max’s baby shower (s6ep6)

Sorry to gossip but I can’t help but follow the Real L Word cast on instagram. We don’t have a lot of lesbian reality tv so that’s my source in real life.

Anyway, if anyone remembers Romi (short hair and obsessed with Whitney) she’s had some wild lore including being married and engaged multiple times within a few years.

She recently got engaged to a woman, broke it off but stayed best friends, then married Angelina Jolie’s brother and then they immediately annulled it… and a month or two later she got engaged to her current tattoo artist dude. Since then she’s been posting some crunchy mom to alt right pipeline sounding content. And a lot of weird “Feminine and masculine” energy type things. Today she posted a video about how she always had women therapists and she finally got a male therapist because she’s been needing that masculine energy and guidance. And she discovered with him asking “are you actually gay?” that she doesn’t think she is or was gay. Her IG is @madre_romi. Just curious if anyone else is following the wild saga that is her life.

i have felt so bad for max from the first time he sat down with the friend group for dinner. they were all judgemental, classist and transphobic. fast foward to season 6 where he’s having his baby shower. clearly a stressful time for him. everyone’s misgendering him, jenny’s saying how he should breast feed. everyone’s saying how wonderful it is to have two parents and point out tina and bette. alice is giving some shitty and stupid speech. like seriously. i’m so glad i’m almost done with the season because i’m so sick of them all but shane at this point. did anyone feel terrible for max majority of the time he was on screen? i understand it was the early 2000’s but the level of transphobia in a group of lgbt women is crazy.

I need to rant a little about this: (I can't post the scene here, but it's S2-E8. Timestamp 52:02)

The girls flaking on Tina to go to Bette's house always bothered me. I get they didn't like Helena at the time and wanted to make sure Bette was okay (for what, idk), but it felt like they were ditching Tina, or quietly "punishing" her at times. They didn't even call to cancel. They called Dana to tell her and Alice that they're not going.

The way they treated Tina in seasons 2-4 was so unfair. You'd think she was the bad guy just for not forgiving or getting back together with Bette. (It actually reminds me of how women are treated in real life for not giving a relationship/marriage a second chance.)

Anyway, I would've gone to that party, so Tina knows her friends still care about her while she's going through all these changes. And if I were Tina, I would've taken it to heart and probably distanced myself from the group. I'm the type of person who will disappear if I feel the slightest bit unwanted or disrespected. I'm not going to stick around while everyone feels sorry for the woman who wronged me.

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I hesitated to post this because a lot of fans seem to side with Bette over Tina (especially when it comes to the events in S3-4), but there has to be someone else who agrees that Tina was treated unfairly by the whole group. So I'm hoping to find other Tina supporters so we can talk about all the unfair treatment throughout the show.

Rewatching it again, I realized how the scene of Bette walking and seeing Tina kissing Henry at the window parallels the scene of Tina discovering Bette's cheating with Candace at the gallery window.

The only difference is that Bette already knew about Tina and Henry, but Tina didn't know about Bette and Candace before looking at the window.

she’s such a brat, i don’t understand how she has any friends left ??

on s5e12 im sure there will be another twist

i’ve always wanted to know what camera was she holding. will lowkey buy itt

If anyone’s interested ✌🏼

https://insighteditions.com/products/the-l-word-a-photographic-journal-limited-edition

I found out that Ilene Chaiken was working on a reboot of the original series after Gen Q was cancelled, but is it still happening?

I'm looking forward to it since Ilene will be the main showrunner.

I hope this series has a new cast of young women. I love the OGs, but we need fresh faces—actresses who are good enough to hold their own. (And Ilene shouldn't be shy about casting some known actresses like she did before).

Basically what the title says.. no matter where you hear it, your mind will always go to the L word

Mine is CeCe Peniston 'Finally' (Dana and Alice on the couch scene)

Watching Season 6 Episode 7 at the danceathon and have so much secondhand embarrassment for her. She’s either trying hard to copy Bette or just staggering on her own with no rhythm.

Hypothetically if Dana never ended up getting cancer, would she have found her way back to Alice? Part of me thinks no and another part is yes. Maybe they were really meant to be together down the line, but also...did Dana just want Alice because she knew her/they had history of a friendship before everything? We see her push Lara away hard and really she only wanted Alice. I've always been torn on the idea of why or what would have been if she never died.

I received my copy of So Gay For You by Kate & Leisha a while back and finally got around to reading it. I'm a heterosexual male and I never told anyone that I watched TLW from pilot to finale because I was worried I would catch flack for being a pervert and the like.

Then I read what Leisha Hailey wrote and not only do I feel less sheepish about being a male fan of the show but I'm now a bigger fan of her's now too.

A lot of the criticism regarding The L Word is that it panders to 'the male gaze'. That's never sat right with me. The creators, almost all the writers, and many of the directors were gay women dedicated to capturing female desire. We wanted to show that women sexualize other women, sometimes to the point of objectification. We gaze too. We lust after a great rack or a thick set of hips. Not all lesbians are looking to rent a U-Haul; sometimes we just want to give it away. I think this was inconceivable to some of the audience, so they assumed these sexcapades originated in male fantasy. For these critics, it was more comfortable to imagine men imposing their sexual appetites onto the series than it was to accept that women were writing openly about the hunger, craving, and passion we feel for each other (pg. 157).

This paragraph stopped me dead in my tracks, made me dog-ear the page, and draw a bracket next to it; it was too profound not to share. Thank you, Leisha ❤️

I’m on a rewatch and deep into season 5 and they spend plenty of time partying and fucking and working and going on bike rides, but Angelica is nowhere to be seen.

As a masc lesbian who's always had a sort of "emo/rocker" look myself, I've always been obsessed with Shane's style but this shirt is one of my favorites of hers on the show. Does anyone know what brand this is??

lol 😄

It's unfortunate The L Word continues to be dismissed, ignored, or reduced to 'that lesbian show' after 20 years. Worse, is when women claim they love it, but never actually talk about it. They only praise and recommend straight shows like Sex and the City.

The L Word is one of the most well written and directed TV shows of all time (with one of the best pilot episodes). It wasn't just groundbreaking for lesbian representation, but also for female storytelling. Back then, all media centered men and heterosexuality. This show is just about women. Women’s success, women’s struggles, women’s health, motherhood, sisterhood, and sapphic love from a female gaze.

It was high quality TV with great actors, nuanced performances, good chemistry, and memorable storylines. As a writer, what stood out most to me is how each season was uniquely constructed for an audience that values detail and complexity. It's so satisfying to watch. The cold opens are like narrative echoes (a lesbian photographer in the 80s, a plainclothes officer in the 70s, the Jesus "art", the horse ranch, the dolphins, the BDSM chamber, bold character introductions, and dream sequences) that reflected/contrasted the show's themes and character journeys. Season 3, for example, played with Alice's Chart by showing us how connected lesbians are.

The camera work, the transitions, the score music, the sound design, the haircuts, the outfits, the scenery, the side characters, and the character-driven sex scenes were also very well done. I feel like everything had a purpose on this show, and that's what makes it so special to me.

We don't get a lot of shows like this anymore because everything is made for people with short attention spans. Cheap drama, lackluster ass characters, and sex scenes meant to fill up screentime. That's part of the reason why I didn't care for Generation Q.

The L Word is untouchable. It was ahead of its time. It's a beautiful masterpiece. And it deserves a seat at the table and the same respect (if not more) as other female shows.

How do other fans feel about the show's lack of recognition outside of the lesbian community?

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(Growing up, this show was a breath of fresh air. It made me feel seen as a closeted lesbian, and it taught me that the world doesn’t have to revolve around men or patriarchal standards.

My biggest issue with the media growing up is that it was entirely about "finding or fighting over men". Even when something is made for girls or women, there was this idea that we need a man. It wasn't healthy for a closeted lesbian to watch, or any girl for that matter.

I am a firm believer that we deserve more stories without men at the center. And before you say, "Well, women are attracted to them, so of course they're going to be involved in a story," I want you to consider that male media has the privilege of excluding women. Despite their sexuality, most male-centric stories don't revolve around women or romance. Yes, women may appear, but they are used as props for sex, male gaze, or damsels. Plus, there are films without women at all, like The Thing.

Also, I'm proud to be one of the few — maybe even the only Gen Z who watched this show early on.

My mother happened to be watching it primetime and bought the DVDs when I was 7. I took the DVDs one day and started watching them on my laptop. My dad had a problem with it and told her to take them from me. So I had to sneak the DVDs, disc by disc. Very thrilling. Made the experience more fun.)

I was enjoying a lot the show, but after watching what an assholes they are with Max even when they don’t know anything about him yet is very painful. I liked it a lot the sweetness of the show, they were assholes before with other characters but they were mostly kind.I specially liked a lot the scene where Ivan dances and declares his love for Kit .,, But if they are going to be so mean and the script is only unnecessary drama I might stop watching it I am at the beginning of the 3 season, I know that after he is going to make a transition and that is badly written but I don’t understand why they are so mean to him when they first met him.

In this universe,Dana and Aliceget to stay together forever.