I love Grey's Anatomy, I really do. Not in the "I watch it every time it's on, can name every actor and his/her character, and own all the DVDs" sense, but in the "My mom watches the show and maybe when she sees the true love between Callie and Arizona she'll realize" sense. In fact, I've seen very little Grey's Anatomy, and I don't really like Grey. But I love Calliope. Not because she has an awesome name, which she does, but because she's so damn relate-able. Though I'm more like Arizona in the sense that I'm not bi but rather a Gold Star Lesbian, I can identify wholeheartedly with Callie's struggle for her dad's acceptance.
I saw the episode with the slogan above. With my mom. At the time my mother was openly hostile about it. I didn't really mind because I hadn't really realized who I am yet. And I just so happened to also see tonight's episode with my mother. I was watching the screen, not her face, but she seemed much more accepting here. She didn't say anything hateful when the baby daddy told Arizona "You're nothing." She didn't say anything about Arizona calling herself the child's mother. And most importantly, she seemed almost as relieved as I was when at the end Callie comes to and says "I'll marry you." Maybe, hopefully, she can see that the love between these two women is more pure and true than the romance between Meredith and McDreamy could ever be. And no, I don't know what Dempsey's character's name really is. It is Dempsey, correct?
I saw the episode with the slogan above. With my mom. At the time my mother was openly hostile about it. I didn't really mind because I hadn't really realized who I am yet. And I just so happened to also see tonight's episode with my mother. I was watching the screen, not her face, but she seemed much more accepting here. She didn't say anything hateful when the baby daddy told Arizona "You're nothing." She didn't say anything about Arizona calling herself the child's mother. And most importantly, she seemed almost as relieved as I was when at the end Callie comes to and says "I'll marry you." Maybe, hopefully, she can see that the love between these two women is more pure and true than the romance between Meredith and McDreamy could ever be. And no, I don't know what Dempsey's character's name really is. It is Dempsey, correct?
I totally love Grey's Anatomy in the "I watch it every time it's on, can name every actor and his/her character, and own all the DVDs" way, but I did trick my mother into watching, starting at Season One, so that she could watch the Callie/Arizona storyline, see how awesome they are, and then I could come out to her :)
ReplyDeleteAnd Patrick Dempsey's character is Derek Shepherd ;)
Just FYI, I'm not hating on the tv-obsession thing; that would make me the biggest of hypocrites. I'm currently that way about Rizzoli & Isles, and last year I would literally sit in class on Thursdays and count down the hours until the next episode of Bones aired.
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