What’s badass about this lipstick lesbian Hyundai commercial that ran during the Olympics is that it equates gay flirting with intelligence (the tagline: “Smart Is In”). What’s not so badass?
It’s run was restricted to Canada, because American viewers of international athletic competitions are scared of hot girl-on-girl.
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Mike in Asheville, nee "in Brooklyn"
I love this commercial!!! Classy. Too bad about all the homophobic dipshits here in the US making us miss it on TV.
SoylentDiva
Sometimes I’m so ashamed of my country.
Noelley B
I don’t get it. Fake lesbianism for the hetero male gaze is a huge part of mainstream american culture. And there’s no evidence that the first woman is even gay! She’s is apparently a car-sexual, as it’s the car’s “intelligence” (“personality?”) that gets her number. Why was this banned? Maybe it’s backlash against the current momentum in the gay rights movement?
jason
Lipstick lesbians are not a sign of true gay acceptance. They are a sign of the sleazy straight guy fetish for girl-girl action. It’s a phony acceptance based on titillation. A lof of the guys who like girl-girl are actually very homophobic towards guy-guy.
Thumbs down to lipstick lesbians.
Faer
@4
fuck off, sure most dykes (femme or otherwise) wish that the stupid straight boys would go away… but we still exist. Shove your thumbs somewhere else, hum?
Louie
@Jason: So you, a man, are saying that lesbians can’t be a feminine, or “lipstick” (which by the way was a term coined by those sleazy straight guys) lesbians, because it hurts the gay community?
Repression also hurts our community. When you say a woman can’t be feminine because she is gay, you sound exactly like that minority of perverted straight men.
I understand that those men may not accept gay men, but they don’t accept lesbians either. Those guys accept the bisexual fantasies that they have in their head of feminine lesbians, and when they find out that they are getting none of that action they can become really hostile. I have first hand experience of that.
Please think before you type next time because the comment you made was pretty much ridiculous.
Thumbs down to ignorance.
Shade
So Jason, lesbians in the media can’t be feminine? Meanwhile most people complain when gay men in the media are effeminate. Is no one allowed to be feminine?
Ceridwyn2
This ad has actually been run many times in Canada and not just at Olympic time. I’ve seen it a few times. It’s a great advert. 😀 I love my country’s liberal acceptance.
jason
Shade,
If “feminine” means being beholden to the fashion and cosmetics industries, forget it. This isn’t true femininity. It’s femininty as devised by sleazy straight guys and their female enablers. It’s all designed to make money for the fashion and cosmetics industries.
My experience with lipstick lesbians is that they are usually in a relationship with a man who is using them to recruit other females for threesomes. Nuff said.
Wen
@4 Jason, you are thumbing down the lipstick lesbian stereotype/fantasy of straight males, not the real femme lesbians. There is a difference. Be careful not to join the stereotyping straight males.
That lesbians are not accepted by these straight males once they make clear they are not interested in men (duh), that shows the ‘acceptance’ is based on these mens own egocentricity. And I agree such men are usually homophobic of gay men. Alas, they are the true perverts of this planet.
Wen
@9 Jason, agreed.
Jadis
@8 well as long as you’re not native, anyway. We’re not perfect.
Shade
There are no lipstick lesbians, Jason? Really? And Portia de Rossi is what, a figment of our imagination?
jason
You can’t deny that “lipstick lesbian” was invented by sleazy porn types to describe the man-pleasing women who do porn and who are there merely to satisfy the sleazy straight guy fetish for girl-girl action.
StraightGrrrl
The point is to showcase lesbianism as hot and erotic between two straight women which promotes unbalanced and unhealthy stereotypes about sexuality, and also encourages selective homophobic attitudes against gay males. I 100% UNDERSTAND what Jason is trying to say. I actually followed his posts here long ago from Towleroad and I have to co-sign most of what he says because he is on point.
I find his persoective unique and uncommonly spoken about and I find it refreshing and realistic. I too have noticed the way they represent lesbianism as opposed to the way they represent gay males.
I guess some lesbians may be annoyed by being seen as sex toys for straight men, but it also means less hate crimes and stereotypes against them.
I can count on only one hand the times Ive heard negative things about lesbians, but Id need a few million peoples hands to count on the times I’ve heard hurtful things spoken about gay males examples: turd burgular, faggot, flamer, sodomites, referring to gay males penises as “shit stained dick” that gay men are demonically possessed and have mental disorders etc, but that same person that says those things about gay males in the same breath will say “lesbians are hot” and that they are a gift from God.
Its the way the media promotes them , that makes lesbianism acceptable,, but the wway the media promotes gay males (as extreme fruit cakes) makes gay males unacceptable in greater society.
That commercial would have never been made if it were two males. In fact there would have been protest against the airing of such a commercial.
Noelley B
I can deny that it matters who invented a term, as apposed to who uses it now. I grew up with this term being used by gays and lesbians (my mom and her friends) to describe a lesbian who engaged in same kind of grooming as most straight women. A lesbian who wore lipstick. And really, it doesn’t make sense to think that the porn industry came up with this term. In (mainstream, hetero) porn, ALL so-called lesbians are extremely well groomed hotties. There were be no need for a term that delineates.
I think you’re confusing “lipstick” with “fake.”
gomez
@Jason. who cares if you think the femme lesbians are just actually bisexual in hetero relationships? you have no right
to insist that women can’t be femme and lez. otherwise, you become no better than heterosexists insisting how we should be.
so bored with bitter gay men (and some militant lesbians) against femme-on-femme action. thumbs down to thumbing down lipstick lesbians
the commercial was funny and sexy.
Lipsticked Lezzy
I am a “lipstick” lesbian, but we don’t go around calling ourselves that. The term would be femme. And yes, some of us DO look like that (if not better….) I have to agree that this commercial is probably geared toward men anyway (aren’t they all, except for tampon and femmy products?) – but to say that we do not exist is quite insulting.
Mark
Those are some beautiful women. Hmmmm, are they lesbians? Don’t think so. we all know that at least half the duo should look like Rosie O’Donnell