Never Never Land (Apparently appeals to lesbians?)

You may have noticed that I am a fresh-out-of-the-closet lesbian. You also may have noticed my deep and passionate love for rainbows (I have rainbow bandaids, rainbow headbands, rainbow ribbons... and all of it is because the colors are so pretty, not cuz I'm gay.) I also kind of like fairy lore, sprites and all that shit. And I love poetry.

BUT. I think it can be taken too far. And this website has done exactly that.

Never Never Land, a place for lesbians to talk and post poetry and all that good stuff. I'm fine with that. So what went wrong?

I shall make a list.

1. Pastels. Everywhere. Mostly pastel rainbows, actually. I switched to another tab and for a second, still saw the obnoxious rainbow. Beyond that, everything is a slightly nauseous shade of teal. The entire site hurts my eyes slightly, especially when you think about how few websites do traditionally gay colors all over their site. In fact, most choose a classy and modern combination of white and navy. My favorite ever-so-lezzie site Autostraddle is exactly that, and it appeals to the young fashionable youth. This color combination tends to draw in the fifty and over set.

Don't get me wrong, they deserve their own websites and everything, but can they choose colors that don't make my twenty-something eyes bleed?

2. Fairies. Why the fairies around the rainbow? It plays into the whole stereotype of lesbians as Earth Mothers, worshiping flowers and dancing like nymphs in drum circles. Again, this seems to be an old lesbo thing. I've only met a few young kids who fall into that stereotype and I kinda think they were being ironic.

3. The Poetry. I love poetry, I read it and write it and I know that I'm kind of stupid about it. I understand why they are so in love with it they have a whole page for it. In fact, the entire site seems to be lesbian-poetry themed. But it is really bad poetry, which isn't so bad, but they try so hard. I think they are missing the part about poetry flowing effortlessly out of your soul, and then edited down. Editing is key, so you have even grammar and tenses throughout your work. At least fix the obvious ones, because looking at the poems hurts my soul a little and makes my fingers itch to edit.

4. Randomly Bolded Words. Stop that. It doesn't make the site easier to read or more interesting, it just makes me want to kick you in the shins.

5. The name. Really? Never Never Land? It doesn't make that much sense. If stumbleupon hadn't personally delivered the site to me, it never would have come up under a search for lesbian support groups. It probably comes up a lot for kids doing research on Peter Pan.

I'm done now, I just had to get that out of my system. I don't approve of too much cheesiness in any website, and I never approve of bad poetry.