Thiking about the last post, I wonder if part of Ellen Degeneres' charm is the fact that she seems a lot more like a female mirror-image of a gay man than like a stereotypical lesbian.
That is, she apparently feels she was born that way, she does not seem to have any trouble relating to the opposite sex, she seems more "pleasantly tomboyish" than threateningly butch; she's usually not the type of person to spout off long political diatribes on gender or feminism or whatnot.
I think that lesbians often seem more threatening than gay men, and Ellen doesn't.
On a similar note, it seems alternately approporiate and ironic that the first lesbian actress to come out of the closet made her name plaing a shrill, castrating, and often misandric, yet extremely heterosexual character.
I am, of course, talking about Amanda Bearse, aka Marcy Rhoades / Marcy D'Arcy on Married... with Children.
That is all.
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