Legend of the Seeker: "Sacrifice"

Since I am watching this show for the first time through its summer reruns, this weekend was the first time I got to see Sacrifice (ep. 10).

I really want to thank whoever's idea it was for how sisters Dennee and Kahlan showed their affection and love for each other. Specifically, that they kissed each other on the lips. That was so sweet.

It's funny because in my family there is a kind of joke around that--that family kisses each other on the lips! (At least, the female members of my family do, with each other.)

I can say as a 30-something female, though I don't know if I speak for all of my generation or not, that I've felt starved for the real examples of plain ol', heterosexual, platonic, love that women have for other women who are close to their hearts; be it family, or friend, or whatever. Especially for examples showing it within popular culture.

It's wrong to leave it out.

And it's wrong (as is popularly and tediously repeated in our culture right now) to make every opportunity or instance where we're showing "girl loving girl" be something suggestive, and to have to sexualize it, or make it a "treat" for either the straight (or maybe otherwise?) male or lesbian voyeur population out there.

The fact is, we straight women need other women's love. And it's wonderful, to us. We dearly love our sisters. (Family and otherwise.)
[*Lesbians need non-romantic/platonic love from other women, too, by the way! (I wasn't trying to make a purposeful omission there, above.)]

By not showing it, in a non-sexual context, those who create entertainment out there are robbing us. I am grateful that the trend of male buddy movies and movies and TV showing brotherly devotion-love happened. The male population needed that, like a cool drink of water to parched throats.

But you skipped we women.
It's time.

So I want to thank you, so much, whoever you are, on LoTS. Whether it was the writers for this episode (I noticed both of which were men), or whether the producer(s) or director, or whether the actresses had a hand. Thank you.

Thank you from the bottom of my heart. It was so beautiful; and it almost makes me cry that I can honestly say I've never seen the purity & depth of love shown between women like that, on TV, in all my 30+ years.