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[meganbmoore]

So, in True Blood, I understand there's a teenaged vampire who was a virgin when she was turned, and now her hymen regrows itself anytime she has sex, so she can never have sex without that pain?

If everything else I've heard about the show hadn't already convinced me I'd hate it, that would manage to turn me off it for life.

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[wilhelminabenedict]

Yup. And it's just as awful as it sounds. What makes it especially horrific is that before that point, she was one of the kindest portrayals of female sexuality that I'd ever seen on TV; she was delighted with her newfound discovery, eager to explore and completely unabashed. So, of course, she had to be punished for it.

Just to top off the queasy sundae, in the most recent episode someone calls her a 'fucking whore' and she sobs, "I know I am." When last season, she playfully told her boyfriend if she could have been a 'slut', she probably would have been.

[meganbmoore]

Based on LJ comments, it's awesome because "women's sexuality used against her = awesome metaphor," and it makes dudes look good.

[wilhelminabenedict]

I wanted to 'what?' to pretty much all of those comments.

True Blood is pretty much 'queasy gender issues' Central, and that's not even touching on the race stuff. It just stung so much because I had to face that fact that, once again, what they intended when they wrote her happy sexuality was not what I got from it.