I was completely fascinated by the article about Raunch culture, by Ariel Levy. Even though Raunch Culture envelopes us, I try not to take part in the watching of it on television or in movies, and definitely would never dream of posing for Girls Gone Wild (GGW). “People watch the videos and think the girls in them are real slutty, but I'm a virgin! ...” said by Debbie Cope, a 19 year old who did GGW. “...The only way I could see someone not doing this is if they were planning a career in politics.” But the reality is, doing this could ruin your career in a lot more things than politics. Bill Horn, one of the cameramen who has a boyfriend said, “Jesus, listen to me...this job is turning me into a straight guy.” He has blonde, booblicious straight women throwing themselves at him all day, the moment they see his GGW hat.

Three girls were filmed making out, and it's crazy that one of the women named Meredith said that she was actually a graduate student. "It's sad. We'll have PHD's in three years. In anthropology." She then goes on to claim after realizing the horror of what she did after the fact, "I'm not at all bisexual...I'd never do that really. It's more for show. A polite way of putting it is it's like a reflex... I felt so dirty about the whole thing. I hate Miami." Yeah, go ahead, blame the place, and the other people, and the company. It's not at all your own fault for getting yourself naked in front of two men with GGW cameras. I personally do not understand how someone can get naked in front of a camera and not think about beforehand the severe consequences this could have on their life, let only the very existence of their career. The fact that this exists is despicable to me, that women are degrading themselves, for the sheer possibility of being on camera. It's crazy what even the possibility or idea of fame will do to people and their morals.

Mia Leist, a GGW tour manger of only 24, claims, "It's a business. In a perfect world, maybe we'd stop and change things. But we know the formula. We know how it works."

Here you have it, the problem in itself. A woman working for a misogynistic company, claiming that yes, though it may have a negative impact on these woman and all women, women still throw themselves all the time at the chance to do this, and this company makes so much money. So why stop it if women are choosing to do this to themselves. I disagree, and believe that being an ignorant bystander, or being the one to film or produce this material, is as negative if not worse than the women who themselves are posing in vulgar ways.

Liest says she doesn't have to do anything to get women to get on camera, that they come flocking to her, "begging to get on camera and they're having fun and being sexy." Yet she would "Definitely Not" appear in a GGW video herself. I truly don't get how she can do what she's doing, even if women are flaunting themselves at her. To me, in addition to degrading themselves, it is also like betraying your own kind, when I would be educating these women who want to throw themselves at GGW, and try to convince them not to. It's awful that she's letting women make a mockery of themselves, rather than trying to educate how women need to start respecting themselves, otherwise men truly never will.

The creators and actors of L word welcome criticism of the show. Its in depth representation of Lesbians is one of a kind and seen nowhere else, and it is groundbreaking. It is rare that shows welcome critique, let alone want it, as the creators of the show understand the importance of this show culturally, having this show as a milestone for Lesbians worldwide. Pratt writes, "It is within this exchange that viewers have the opportunity to rethink the definition of representation. Anne Ramsay, an actress on the show reacted from the fan popularity of the show, "I think the lesbian community is starving, and has been for years." The show represents this Utopian world, where everywhere the women go, they are proud to be themselves, and accepted for who they are, a depiction that is the antithesis of the real world. This escapist aspect of the show is a positive aspect that Pratt brings up. Unfortunately, the show equates very specific conceptions of beauty, race, and ethnicity with queerness. It's so fascinating that all these women casted are attractive, as people supposedly don't want to watch ugly people despite what sexual orientation they are. Besides the show judging what is attractive for the rest of the world, it surprised me to read that the L Word is under the "same heteronormative conceptions of gender and beauty as most other aspects of popular culture", as seen by Robert Greenblatt. Instead of conforming to current aspect of media, L Word could have changed media, and come up with the own their societal norms, but instead, much of the show still maintained the beauty ideals that were already created by the media.
Nevertheless, the fact that these women are all in similar beauty and social categories though, does not demean the accuracy of these relationships on the the show between the women. I have Lesbian moms, who have been together for 25 years. They are older women, who watched the L word religiously, because there had never been a show like it before, and they were proud to finally be represented on television, despite the unrealistic expectation of beauty and wealth of the women. The relationships, and life struggles that the women on the show endure, and indeed realistic  and enjoyable to watch by women of all sexual orientations.