Kira Cochrane wishes Keira and Scarlett would stop it

-- Foretold in myth and legend as the year of the gay cowboy, 2006 actually looks sure to be the year of the faux-lesbian, writes Kira Cochrane. --

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-- All of which would be great, positive and progressive, if these images had anything to do with real lesbian lifestyles and real gay women. Unfortunately they represent nothing of the sort. So I guess that I should clarify my terms: 2006 looks sure to be the year of the faux-lesbian.

Rather than representing lesbianism in any essential sense, what these images actually seek is to co-opt it, to contain and commercialise a preference that can, by its very nature, be alienating, even threatening, to heterosexual men. --