Actually…I do want to know what happens when lesbians stop being polite and start getting real.

Lo those many years ago (some time in 2006), Tony Soprano once mused:

…the lesbian thing (pause) … with the ah….Jennifer Beals…it’s not bad. Is she a dyke in real life?

Is she a dyke in real life. According to The L Word (yes, I watched the show, and yes, the truth will out)  any gaggle of well dressed women fighting about tennis, art and the most appropriate way to diagram hook-ups must be a gaggle of lesbian frenemies. Throw in a healthy dose of F to M trans hate and it’s a done deal…

you’re definitely dealing with lesbians. Although these would be lesbians of the Chaikenian persuasion.

Meaning, they are in no way real. The Chaiken-verse is fictional precisely because it doesn’t have room for real-world lesbians.

Or so I thought.

Enter: The Real L Word: Los Angeles. 

THE REAL L WORD: Los Angeles will follow a group of real-life, high-profile, left coast lesbians as they go about their daily lives, at work and play. The producing team plans to show viewers that the cast can be every bit as glamorous, fashionable, fabulous and even as cutthroat as their celebrated-but-fictional counterparts.

This means we finally get to find out what happens when Chaiken lesbians stop being polite and start getting real. 

But only, if they can cast the show. Apparently L.A. is teaming with those mythic and elusive lipstick lesbian playgirls who only lust after other lipstick lesbian playgirls. It should be noted, however, that Real L Word is still in the casting stage of production.

They’re specifically looking for Bette and Shane types.

(But aren’t we all…)

So If you fit the bill (Fraser, I’ve always thought of you as a “Shane”!!!), here’s the casting call that Showtime sent out:

 WANTED: Non self-respecting Los Angeles based lesbians for solipsistic reality show piggy backing on The L Word juggernaut. No fatties, real butches, prudes, virgins, sober ladies or broke ass bitches need apply forThe Real L Word of Los Angeles. (via SheWired)