http://www.mombian.com/2007/02/22/the-l-word-season-four-episode-seven-the-parenting-perspective/ Sustenance for Lesbian Moms Thu, 09 Feb 2012 20:39:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.mombian.com/2007/02/22/the-l-word-season-four-episode-seven-the-parenting-perspective/comment-page-1/#comment-31469 Mombian: Sustenance for Lesbian Moms » Blog Archive » The L Word Season Four, Episode Eleven: The Parenting Perspective Sat, 31 Mar 2007 04:24:08 +0000 http://mombian.com/2007/02/22/the-l-word-season-four-episode-seven-the-parenting-perspective/#comment-31469 [...] Season Four flew by with all the speed of a toddler after cookies. In this last episode, Paige’s son Jared says he doesn’t want his mom to be a “lez.” This seems rather crass of him given the lengths Paige (and Ilene Chaiken) went to to give us a sensitivity lesson back in Episode Seven. What he’s really saying, I think, is that he’s scared of anyone intruding on the relationship he’s forged with his mom since his dad left, and he’s scared of getting close to another parent who will leave. In this, he may have more insight into Shane than Paige does. [...] [...] Season Four flew by with all the speed of a toddler after cookies. In this last episode, Paige’s son Jared says he doesn’t want his mom to be a “lez.” This seems rather crass of him given the lengths Paige (and Ilene Chaiken) went to to give us a sensitivity lesson back in Episode Seven. What he’s really saying, I think, is that he’s scared of anyone intruding on the relationship he’s forged with his mom since his dad left, and he’s scared of getting close to another parent who will leave. In this, he may have more insight into Shane than Paige does. [...]

]]> http://www.mombian.com/2007/02/22/the-l-word-season-four-episode-seven-the-parenting-perspective/comment-page-1/#comment-24571 Mombian: Sustenance for Lesbian Moms » Blog Archive » The L Word Season Four, Episode Eight: The Parenting Perspective Thu, 01 Mar 2007 08:44:05 +0000 http://mombian.com/2007/02/22/the-l-word-season-four-episode-seven-the-parenting-perspective/#comment-24571 [...] The episode ends at Shane’s skate shop, where she and Paige are having a picnic for Shay and Jared’s friends and their parents. I like the friendly banter among the parents here, but it seems rather at odds with last week’s “school in need of diversity training” plot. Maybe Shane and Paige’s talk at the school was a rousing success. Maybe the conservative mom who spoke up was the only parent to get her knickers in a twist over LGBT families. Either way, this scene, while good in itself, serves to reinforce the shallowness of the one last week. [...] [...] The episode ends at Shane’s skate shop, where she and Paige are having a picnic for Shay and Jared’s friends and their parents. I like the friendly banter among the parents here, but it seems rather at odds with last week’s “school in need of diversity training” plot. Maybe Shane and Paige’s talk at the school was a rousing success. Maybe the conservative mom who spoke up was the only parent to get her knickers in a twist over LGBT families. Either way, this scene, while good in itself, serves to reinforce the shallowness of the one last week. [...]

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