Written by:
Jenna V. Loceff
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Tackling the myth that all lesbians are angry, militant and incapable of taking a joke, Diana Cage chats it up with listeners and guests about the stereotypes surrounding lesbians during “Humorless Lesbian Month" on her weeknight radio show.
Cage addresses conservative politics, family issues and coital headaches, (the pressure one feels after just too many orgasms, imagine that problem) reminding listeners that "lesbians are funny and not just because of our haircuts."
She takes Dennis Miller to task for saying “noblesse oblique”—any intelligent person knows it’s “noblesse oblige”—and when Fox put on the Half-Hour Comedy Hour and it was cancelled, well let’s just say to her it became the hour-long un-comedy hour.
She is certainly not shy when it comes to dishing on marital life with women or men, asking husbands what it is that they are not getting.
Cage is concerned though that it might be difficult to change these misconceptions when the general public has no idea what she is talking about when she says she looks for women with comfortable shoes. She says we need a lesbian radio show to teach the stereotypes so that we can dispel them.
Comedian Suzanne Westenhoefer was a recent guest. They shared stories about how their partners deal with being used as material and the dreaded "mother-in-laws."
Cage's partner's mother is also a lesbian and Cage said she wished “she would listen to my show so I could alienate her more.”
Cage was the editor of On Our Backs, the lesbian erotica magazine. She is the author of several books about lesbian sex and dating.
Her show is on OUTQ, the gay and lesbian radio channel on Sirius Satellite, weeknights at 10 EST. For more about Cage and her show, see the latest issue of Curve on stands Nov. 1.
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