Pop Culture Fix: Lesbian Bachelor Contestant Couple Insist Maxim Cover Isn’t “Fake Anti-Feminist Lesbianised Male Fantasy”
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+ The Bachelor contestants who fell in love with each other, Megan Marx and Tiffany Scanlon, appear on this month’s cover of Maxim Australia. They have been named “couple of the year.” It’s unclear if this honor has ever existed in the past, but now it does, and here we all are right now together as a family witnessing this monumental event.
From their interview:
What do you love most about this photo shoot?
Megan: I just love the feel of the whole shoot – it’s great that we are really in our element and surrounded by nature.
Tiffany: What I love most is that I actually got to do this with Megan. She just lights up in front of a camera and helped ease my nerves. It felt very natural to be doing these pictures with her.
Predictably, this story has garnered the happy couple some heat about the male gaze and the fetishization of lesbian sexuality. They have responded to the criticisms on instagram, with Megan declaring, “I want to note Tiffany and I aren’t specifically trying to break down the mysogenstic (sic) attitudes of men. We are trying to increase the normalisation of desire and love in any form.”
Tiffany has chimed in with, “If you think that this is some fake anti feminist lesbianised [sic] sexual male fantasy then you are only aiding in the judgemental [sic] backward thinking of society whether you are straight, gay, bi or however else you choose to label yourself.”
In conclusion, Donald Trump is going to become president of the United States in like 23 days, so.
+ Welp, The Daily Mail got their hands on some sex scenes from Netflix’s second season of Sense8, and they are very sexy! The basic thrust of The Daily Mail‘s article is that Freema Agyeman, who is known across the pond for her role in Doctor Who, will be having lesbian sex with her girlfriend, who is transgender, and also with all the other characters!
+ Here’s how lesbian cinema is being reinvented by a new crop of filmmakers and festival organizers. I’ll give you a hint: BRITTANI NICHOLS.
+ Comedian Rosie Waterland has come out as bisexual.
+ A Lesbian web series received $100k from NZ On Air to make their tiny vision into a big bright new reality.
+ ‘Duck Dynasty’ vs. ‘Modern Family’: 50 Maps of the U.S. Cultural Divide
+ Overwatch has confirmed its intent to feature its first lesbian relationship. Russia is banning it.
+ Four important queer moments in pop culture in 2016
Two Women On ‘The Bachelor’ Started Dating and I Am Finally Vindicated
feature image via @megan.leo.marx on Instagram
It only took 20 seasons of The Bachelor spanning 14 years, four spin-offs and two international franchises for two women from the show to start dating each other, but it finally happened. Twenty seasons spanning 14 years, four spin-offs and two international franchises for two women on the show to look around and realize they could just date each other. Not this man from a J.C. Penney catalogue.
Oh, and I would’ve waited another 20 seasons and 14 years. I would be in a group home at 95 and pause my mancala marathon to log on to my stories awaiting that gay spark. And then, if I had to haunt this mortal plane to finally witness the moment when the women on the show started eyeing each other at the cocktail party, I would.
Because I refuse to believe that this is what women really want:
I don’t care how straight you are, I refuse it. Which brother from the ABC Original Family Movie, Charity’s Distress, is the one for you? IT’S NONE OF THEM IT’S THE GIRL FROM THE SKATING RINK.
Also, you know what? I deserve this. With the hours I’ve logged into this show, my reward shouldn’t just be a feeling of gratitude that I’m not straight. I watched Bachelor in Paradise: After Paradise – I deserve to know that two women on The Bachelor probably shot a confessional being upset about something Kyle/Ben/Jamie/Geoff said and then went where the cameras couldn’t see them while stifling laughter and then made out.
This is also for every woman who’s been on The Bachelor. No one deserves to be compensated for going on national television to push an aggressive version of heterosexuality with gallons of pinot grigio. They deserve to be compensated with a fulfilling gay dating situation with a woman with whom you plan on hiring a professional photographer for your Instagram photos as a couple.
Megan Marx and Tiffany Scanlon said there were fireworks from the very first cocktail party on the last season of the Australian Bachelor. And ladies, if you can find love in a room full of cameras and women with eyes who want something from your soul trying to get a read on each other while mainlining booze, you absolutely deserve the love you’ve found. Congratulations, and welcome to the club!