SVU episode by Kate Rapp

Last night I was watching Law and Order:Special Victims Unit before going to bed, and usually I love every episode but as I was watching last night I wanted to throw a hammer at my television. It was a special episode with Kathy Griffin, who is a well known comedian that supports all the people in the "alphabet soup." But I was offended last night in watching her act as a radical lesbian feminist. So the plot of the show was that there was is rapist in the area who is only targeting lesbians, so as the detectives are investigating this they are introduced to a blogger who rallies up protests and is very extreme in her thinking, this character is played by Kathy Griffin. She was a big target for the rapist and after the raper made a direct threat to her the detectives stayed with her for her protection. So while Olivia, the female detective, was with her Griffin's character made moves on her. Griffin's character assumed that Olivia was a lesbian because of her job and because she wasn't married. And when I say she made moves on Olivia she literally went up and tried making out with her, making Griffin's lesbian character hypersexulaized. And this wasn't the only time that the writers had her make awkward sexual comments when in a professional setting. A normal person, regardless of sexual orientation, would never make comments and actions like these. Just because the character on the show is a feminist lesbian doesn't make her more sexual, and honestly people watching who are ignorant to lesbians are probably really freaked out now and have developed a stigma. In the show they also created a character who was what would be considered a "butch" lesbian. This character dressed in all cargo clothes and had her hair tied back and had an extreme angry problem. I know that during the pride panel we talked about shows like these and how they would rather be represented then not, but this episode took the stereotypes too far for me. I'm really surprised that Kathy Griffin took on this role, because she should know more than anyone that these stereotypes do not help the gay community at all. My roommate who doesn't have that much exposure to any gay people stated after watching the episode "See, that's why I always get nervous when I'm around lesbians, they're gonna try to kiss me and that's not what I want- They always assume people are gay and I'm not." After I talked to her about how that is not true and how screwed up this episode was, she still didn't understand and stuck to her attitude towards lesbians. This particular show made me so angry because it had so much of an impact on my roommates attitude in the negative direction. I think shows like these are not helping the LGBTQIPA community at all.