Lesbian Gaydar is Real, Cat Cora is a Sexy Chef, and Equality California has a Plan: Daily Fix

Carlytron, aka your Tuesday Televisionary, is back — but we liked the team posts so much that we’ll continue to pitch in, search engine optimization be damned! So if you have any feelings about the Teen Choice Awards ’09, So You Think You Can Dance, Weeds, Nurse Jackie, True Blood, America’s Best Dance Crew (Vogue Evolution!), Defying Gravity, My Life on the D-Llist, Drop Dead Diva, Intervention or Toddlers & Tiaras … this is your lucky day!

Also, if you haven’t read Intercaine Katrina’s piece about how when the Philippines says “gay-friendly,” they aren’t talking about the ladies … then you should do that ASAP: In “Gay Friendly” Philippines, Lesbians Lead Secret Lives.

LESBIAN GAYDAR: Gaydar is Real: Subjects Correctly Identify Lesbians Soley on Facial Features: “It remains unknown what aspects of the face and its features may underlie these judgments,” the researchers write. “One hypothesis would be that lesbian women’s faces are somehow more masculine, whether by nature, nurture or both.” (@millermccune)

SEXY PEOPLE: Two important lists of sexy people: The 21 Sexiest Elderly (and yes! It’s about 50% women! Go internet!) and Top Ten Sexiest Chefs (includes lesbian Cat Cora).

BISEXUALS: We have so many feelings about this, a roundtable could be in order … Why Are People So Afraid of Bisexuals? – “We are society’s shape-shifters. Partnered with a member of the opposite sex, we appear straight. Partnering with a member of our own sex renders us gay, at least in the eyes of the world. We can choose the degree of freedom and oppression we choose to accept. Hence, we are not to be trusted.” (@alternet)

BETH DITTO: Lesbian Michelle Tea followed Lesbian Beth Ditto around during Fashion Week. It’s all in The Believer, which you should buy ASAP, but in the meantime, Jezebel wrote about it: Beth in The Believer Or, When Queer Feminist Punk Bands Meet Paris. (@jezebel)

WOMYN: The Income Gap Keeps on Growing: “…more study is needed to conclusively determine a cause for this pattern, but the implication is chilling: Once women break into a field in noteworthy numbers, its value goes down.” (@salon’s broadsheet)

ALTERNATIVELIFESTYLEHAIRCUT: Chris Rock Investigates the Social Construction of “Good Hair,” and for the love of all that is good in the world, this film combines everything we love: investigating micro issues in a broader sociological context, documentaries, funny people, and That’s So Raven:

SANDRA BERNHARD: Sandra Bernhard’s New Album “Whatever It Takes”: “I kissed a girl … oooo! … It’s totally unsexy. That’s my biggest complaint about it. If you’re going to kiss a girl, let’s see some action. Let’s see Fanny Ardant and Marianne Faithfull kissing. Let’s see some European hot sexy. Let’s see some real women going at it. It’s all these little “Oh, I kissed a girl, oops” … it’s just such a turnoff.” (@spinner) [Unfortunately, it does not include the world-famous degrassi theme song “whatever it takes” – Hot Laura, “I’m gonna make it through” – Riese]

GAY PIMP: Johnny McGovern is starting somethin’: “Ericka fans unite! Ask Wendy…why a professional drag queen- Miss Erickatoure who came to her show dressed to the nines (at 7am no less) was told by Wendy’s producers that if she tried to comment or get on camera she would be removed from the audience? For a show that takes so much from Drag Queen and Gay Lingo and shitck ( the diva fan anyone?) this is VERY disapointing. tell her how YOU doin’ with that.…”

WOMYN: “Maybe I’m a cranky feminist who needs to get laid more, but I think it is really important to have language to talk about sexuality that isn’t itself coded as sexual.” (@feministe)

PROP 8: Leaders of Equality California, one of the state’s largest gay rights groups, will host a conference call today to discuss their timeline for going back to the ballot to try to amend the California Constitution to permit same-sex marriage. (@latimes)

BEST NEWS EVER: Focus on the Family Gots No Moneys: Everyone’s favorite Gang of Douchebags has a 6 million dollar shortfall, which threatens their ability “to reach out to parents, families and married couples who count on our help [informing them on how to be hateful asshats]” (@pam’s house blend)

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Are you alive? Are you living & breathing? Yes? Okay, then you should probs be reading this book. Literally one of the best books of all time, lesbian Dorothy Allison’s Bastard Out of Carolina is the fictionalized memoir of the author’s “white trash” coming-of-age in 1950’s Greenville County, South Carolina. She contends with a sprawling family of alcoholics and hard-living fighters, sexual abuse, and harrowing poverty.  There was a movie about it too, but we recommend the book.

from Carly:

Readymech are free paper toys that you can assemble in about 10-15 minutes. You just print them off of the website and voila! They also have pinhole cameras. I plan to have my desk covered in these by the end of the week. Cute city!

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from Stef:

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from Intern Hot Laura:

this is all kinds of hilarious. some girl forgot that her boyfriend was in europe for two weeks and sent him many MANY emails of the crazy variety. he made them into a video, but you can read the transcript if you’re too impatient [it’s ok, i was].