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American Horror Story's Lesbian Is The Last Man Standing When Madness Ends (Which Is Awesome)
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Then there’s Lana, of course, who is institutionalized for being gay, which I think all of us here recognize does not actually make her a bad person, and it’s other women who help her get out of the asylum for real, not Finn Hudson. […]

When Lana Winters first showed up at Briarcliff, I didn’t anticipate a lengthy tenure. Shows lauded for their powerful queer lady characters tend to start their girls out strong and then fade them into obscurity by the season’s end … But Lana ended up front-and-center throughout the show and rarely did anything predictable. 

Autostraddle getting it right about Lana: how instrumental she is to her own survival and success, and how unusual it is to have the lesbian character survive to be the “final girl” when queer characters almost always die or commit suicide regardless of genre. 

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Lana is a great character. She and Jude are two of the best female characters I’ve seen in a tv series for quite a while now.

I love that Lana being a lesbian is a part of her character till the end and doesn’t fade away replaced by “the main plot”, but at the same time she’s not just “the queer character” because she has such realistic connections with others (Kit, Jude) that she’s not defined by her sexuality.

Also, even if she’s quite a complex and not totally innocent person by the end, you cannot say she’s a bad person. She’s ambitious, yes, but she’s also a hard worker who struggled for whatever she obtained. She struggled to stay alive and in doing so she helped other people. She did it not only for sheer altruism but for her life and career, too: does it make her a bad person? Not wanting to raise the child makes her a bad person? Or even killing him in the end. She did it to protect herself and to stop a murderer, for whom she felt responsible (that’s the meaning of her line “It’s my fault”).

She’s not a cookie, she’s tough and totally entitled to be so. The only thing “against her” you could point out is that she doesn’t feel any pity for her child. But women are not just soft feelings and motherly instinct. She was Johnny’s biological mother only because she was forced to become a mother, something she never requested; and had no other connection with him. She had no reason to feel sorry for a man who was trying to kill her and whose very existence was the result of abuse perpetrated against her.

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I’m reblogging a reblog b/c i really like what this person said about lana i think it’s super-accurate:

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when suddenly, it began to rain.: on being "just" a lesbian writer
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the other day i was having a drink with some friends and one of them (a guy) related the story of a girl who was nearly killed by a broken roller-coaster and only survived by holding onto her female friend for dear life.
because i am in the final stages of finishing my first book and it occupies...

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American Horror Story's Lesbian Is The Last Man Standing When Madness Ends (Which Is Awesome)
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Then there’s Lana, of course, who is institutionalized for being gay, which I think all of us here recognize does not actually make her a bad person, and it’s other women who help her get out of the asylum for real, not Finn Hudson. […]

When Lana Winters first showed up at Briarcliff, I didn’t anticipate a lengthy tenure. Shows lauded for their powerful queer lady characters tend to start their girls out strong and then fade them into obscurity by the season’s end … But Lana ended up front-and-center throughout the show and rarely did anything predictable. 

Autostraddle getting it right about Lana: how instrumental she is to her own survival and success, and how unusual it is to have the lesbian character survive to be the “final girl” when queer characters almost always die or commit suicide regardless of genre.