Deflation Leitmotif

I was researching the veteran scriptwriter Sherry Coben, who unwittingly sucked me into the pleasure of self-identification with her hit show during my collegiate years, which was most likely a hit exactly because of women like my divorced mother and her then closet butch best friend, which yes still pisses me off even though I knew Kmac with a significant amount of childhood to adolescent intimacy. (Would I cut this woman the way I would cut New Mobility's managing editor if I ever saw her again? I cannot say; there are differences, and Kmac was one of the few people at my mother's funeral with whom I could field my grief.)

At the risk of repeating myself, my reactionary hostilities are not simple. Josie Byzek never really cared about being my friend. She met me in the city to make up for burning my date, the end. Never contacted me to see how I was doing afterwards, long before I started blogging and recounting my abandonment by Philadelphia Cripland, and Kmac lost her daughter, who I knew once, but what these two women have in common, along with the majority of lesbians who were out, including the former master and commander of my now hated disability center, Fern Markowitz, is that they were poison to my well being.

Wiki has a citation about the pressure CBS was under to ensure that the characters of Jane Curtin and Susan Saint James were not lesbians, but Coben unwittingly hit the zeitgeist of my formative years. The late seventies saw a skyrocketing dissolution of nuclear family security, and I am not the only boomer who got scarred by that. But Coben also captured the humor of not knowing where the place settings were in the last quarter of the last century. My mother and Kmac were Kate & Allie prototypes, and Coben, from my region, captured the tempo that the country understood and grasped, nostalgia already setting in during the Reagan years. The curse of a disadvantaged freelancer is that every idea has already been done, however, and the angle has to be wedged with ever more finesse.