wow. seriously?!
i'm just gonna go point for point with you...
1) it's television. the fact that someone is living more lavishly than their means should afford them is not a new concept.
-i've seen shows where orphaned hairdressers live in 3 bedroom homes in West Hollywood.
-i've seen shows where waitresses live in gorgeous high rises in New York City.
-i've seen shows where all 5 of the main characters are supposed to be 17 years old and every single on of them is living on their own, supporting themselves fully w/ no job, (ok, one of them was a waitress), before they had even graduated high school. and most of the supporting roles played out the same way.
if you haven't noticed, hollywood doesn't care about how much a lead character should be making at their job so much as they care about having a hot cast and a nice set.
but regardless, i lived in a very nice $1600 a month apartment in San Jose, and i'm a full time college student and waitress and i was not just scraping by. so it really is possible for a professional working woman to be living with such a lifestyle even if newspapers don't pay that much, b/c i almost guarantee you she would be making more at that job than i was serving cheeseburgers in blue jeans and a polo shirt.
2) believe it or not, not everyone is into politics. even in San Fran, even as a reporter.
there are reporters that do fluff pieces, and reporters that cover sports, and reporters that cover fashion. there are reporters that cover city life, and reporters that do "best of" lists, and even reporters that specifically cover politics.
no one said she was an "important reporter," maybe she's their humorous, quirky columnist. how is it not believable that someone has a job in print that doesn't focus on politics?
3) but really, there def is gay characters. they didn't show up for the first few episodes, but do we have to cover every aspect of what you think this show should be by episode 3? the show has a specific cast it follows, and when they showcase outside characters, it's usually someone that one of the main characters is trying to date. being that none of the main characters is gay, it hasn't been relevant yet that they introduce gay characters.
4) they're not "trendy" enough for you?! who are you?
i have spent plenty of time in San Francisco (as i mentioned, i lived in the bay area), and although i did know some trendy people there, i also knew far more straight people that were much more like the characters portrayed here. in fact, it was generally the gay kids i knew who were the trendy ones, and as we have mentioned, none of the main characters are gay. i am also fairly certain that the oldest "trendy" person i hung out with in San Fran was about 22 years old. people sometimes grow out of being San Francisco's brand of trendy. and being that the only 22 year olds followed on the show are stoner straight guys, i'd be a little weirded out if they were trendy.
5) never in the time i spent in San Francisco do i recall ever hearing a joke about the homelessness issue. never.
6) how many people do you know? i have quite a number of friends that are older than i am that still giggle when people talk about sex. and a lot of my friends, love em to death, have the maturity of 12 year olds when it comes to sex. not everyone in San Fran is as mature as you give them credit for. don't get me wrong, i would love it if they really were, but they're not.
7) it doesn't really make much of a difference where you live, there is always divisions of the city or the town that the people living there will talk about. but to an outsider it doesn't make an ounce of difference. i was born and raised in Houston, but if i told you what part, you wouldn't care at all. being in Texas, it's often a topic of discussion, but to anyone else, if i made a show about Houston and they tried to throw that in their, about 5 people would care and the rest just wouldn't get it.
8) well she's Scottish for one. and i in fact do know Scottish people, and Irish people for that matter, that have not had the slightest trouble finding legitimate, white-collar jobs. and none of my friends from any other country, and i have a lot of friends from foreign countries, ever talk about having immigration issues. they may have immigration issues that i'm unaware of, but i have never heard one thing about it, not for lack of caring, but for lack of them wanting to talk about it i would guess.
9) of all the people i dated in San Francisco, none of them was ever a friend of a friend of a friend. outside of San Fran, yes, but everyone i dated who i met in San Fran, or was from San Fran or had anything to do with San Fran was an absolute stranger when we began dating.
10) i'm your average, middle class, white girl, and i had more black friends in the bay area than white friends. honestly. and they were definitely some of my most social friends, nowhere near isolated.
i really feel like you've been outside once in the past 10 years and based your assessment of San Francisco on a group of about 3 people.
people from all over the country adore San Francisco for so many different reasons, and move there all the time, which in and of itself tells me there has to be some level of diversity. San Francisco is not one homogenized city that has shut off it's links to the outside world or closed its borders. it is an interesting and diverse place for the multitude of different people that peacefully coexist and generally are accepted for living their lives as they wish and being accepted for not fitting any particular mold, which you seem to be trying to fit them so succinctly into.
and i think i've said enough for now. so i'll leave it there.
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