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Power Couple Portia De Rossi and Ellen Degeneres | Credit: FayesVision/WENN.com
I think Carroll needs some help figuring out what a lesbian looks like. Maybe she should call up Ellen Degeneres and her wife Portia De Rossi to find out what their beauty routines are? Maybe Jodie Foster should start making beauty vlogs on Youtube to teach us how to get that elegant lesbian glow? If she wants to make this racial, how about calling up Wanda Sykes–I’m sure she has some great tips on what Black lesbians should look like?!
OK, I’ll cut the jokes and be serious for a second: WTF was she thinking when she made a comment like that? What does a lesbian look like? Anyone. You might have figured that out from the openly gay women I named above. I mean, just look at super couple Ellen and Portia–do they look similar AT ALL? I am so over people making categorizations and speculations about how someone might appear gay. Liam Payne and Harry Styles of One Direction have been accused of being gay and they didn’t think it was necessary to bash the LGBT community or promote stereotypes. What gives?
When you’re saying a guy or girl must be gay because of ____________, you’re just limiting EVERYONE. If gay people must look a certain way, then straight people must look a certain way too. Don’t you just want to be yourself? Isn’t that the happiest, most fulfilling thing to be. What girl wants to worry about becoming a mechanic because someone might think she is a lesbian? What guy wants to worry about hiding his love of ballet because someone might call him gay? (Certainly not any football players.) All this Justin Bieber looks like a lesbian stuff is silly. People look how they look, they are who they are, we really need to stop shaming each other for that.
What’s even worse is that if the incident did occur and Carroll is a lesbian then she must know what she is saying is absolutely wrong. Maybe if she stopped contributing to negative stereotypes about gay people shouldn’t wouldn’t feel pressured to live a double life? She certainly has the power to contribute to that kind of change since she is in political office. It’s just a shame.
Can we just be a little more open-minded people? Gay or straight, everyone will benefit.
What do you think of Governor Jennifer Carroll’s statement? Let us know in the comments!
I am a lesbian and I like to dress very stereotypically feminine. Most of my lesbian friends don’t dress any different from your average girl. I have one close friend who does present herself in an androgynous way, and she is straight. Assumptions are natural but people need to be prepared to look beyond assumptions.
Oh shut up for once! Gurl used to have interesting and informative articles but now it’s full of hookup stories and whiny journalists. NORMALLY very feminine women aren’t lesbians. I agree that there isn’t a lesbian look but get real. If a woman has choppy hair and wears flannel you can’t deny that all signs point to gay. In a perfect world there would be no labels but this world certainty isn’t perfect, now is it? So tired of the people at gurl complaining about everything and being so one sided. I want to read more unbiased articles that are full of facts and not some random girls opinion. This woman has her job threatened and you jump on her for comment. Unbelievable.
I so agree with you, all they do is push their own opinion on you and if you disagree label you as ‘sexist’ or ‘homophobic’. There is no such thing as ‘right’ or ‘wrong’, these are personal opinions so stop shoving them in my face! Lesbians do tend to dress up a certain way on purpose, most want to appear boyish. Stop acting like your the only perfect, right human being in the world and everyone else is a racist, sexist homophobe.
Exactly. They’re articles are very biased, I agree. They just go off what they hear. They don’t ask anyone else. *facepalm*
But sadly, it isn’t a perfect world.
well, it has been proven that gaydar exists, people are more than 50% accurate at judging the sexuality of faces flashed for mere milliseconds in both genders. I do however, agree that we shouldn’t judge.