![]() With shameless cynicism, the marketing men behind these stunts encourage this behaviour in order to sell more clothes, perfume and CDs to generate publicity in the celebrity-hungry magazines which feed off controversial behaviour - the more shocking the better. It means that we ordinary lesbians are constantly being judged against those celebrities acting out the male fantasy version of so-called lesbian chic. Not only does it risk having an effect on impressionable young girls, it also harms ordinary lesbians who just want to lead normal lives without being associated with female celebrities who are being marketed to be attractive to those men who are excited by images of gay women. Such ridiculous scenes of women playing at being gay bear no relation to reality. It’s the kind of glammed-up, plastic lesbianism that is found in pornography - a genre that, incidentally, exclusively titillates men.ĭouble act: Sienna moves on to share an apparently intimate moment with Cara's model sister Poppy The lesbian images that Delevingne and Rodriguez and their ilk are promoting to an impressionable young audience - some of whom are at an age when they may question their own sexuality - are utterly specious. This is a hyped-up PR campaign, done in a way that is deeply unedifying. One previous relationship, with musician Jake Bugg, was exploited for its celebrity value, too, but her current liaison is being used in a more cynical and damaging way: as sexual titillation. To her publicists, Cara is a money-making product. Indeed, I wish they’d keep it to themselves.īut their ‘relationship’ is - make no mistake - being fiercely marketed. Whatever they do in private is their own business. ![]() I don’t know the details and I don’t much care. ![]() I don’t intend to get into a discussion about whether they really are in a lesbian relationship. On the contrary, I think this ‘faux lesbianism’ is far from healthy.ĭelevingne, 21, has dated men such as One Direction’s Harry Styles but has been portrayed as inseparable from Rodriguez, who is 15 years her senior and who has also been out with men in the past. I came out as a lesbian in the Seventies, so you might expect that I would welcome any public depiction of homosexual lifestyles. Tongue tied: Cara Delevingne goes in for the kiss with actress Michelle Rodriguez at a basketball game ![]()
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