If québecois tv is anything like "Ménage à 3", it must be a fun watch, haha.
Ah, Ménage à 3 by Gisèle Lagacé: one of my favorite webcomics ever! Excellent read to start cleaning your mind of prejudices.
Actually, everything in Pixietrixcomix.com is a good read and highly recommended.
You've always lived in Montréal, iirc?
I went with my family from Montréal to South America as a child and back to Montréal as a teen. At the time I watched a lot of sitcoms and tv shows (American, British, French) and of course in Montréal I got to watch the local series. Some were comedies, some were soaps, some were police dramas, but one thing they all had it common, and really surprised me, was the casual attitude most women displayed towards sex and relationships, and the extreme assertiveness and aggressivity they manifested when faced with an attractive, desirable individual.
I remember one series where the pregnant leading lady and her fiancé are planning to get married and start a family — when he dumps her. He has been two-timing her, and has decided he likes better the other woman: her best friend! (Who already had a boyfriend of her own, but that's not a problem, she dumps him as well.) What a shock! All the other characters offer her their sympathy and agree that the ex-fiancé is so cruel. Even he, the ex-fiancé, feels kinda bad about it. Anyway, she decides to have the baby nevertheless... and, when she gives birth, surprise: it's a black boy! It takes her a lot of time and effort to remember when and where she had slept with a black man, because, well, at this point she is forced to confess: she had cheated on her fiancé with SO many guys she just couldn't remember them all! (His face when he finds out is priceless...) And this lady was the MC we were supposed to identify with. Like... WOW. (งᗒ‿‿ᗕ)ง At the time, it was a big culture shock for me.
This sort of thing happened all the time in shows from Québec. Any viewer who had expectations of chastity and/or monogamy from the girls would end up getting suckerpunched by reality, lol. I was so unused to see women on TV enjoying their sexuality with such openness and freedom, the novelty actually felt very refreshing. ( ◜‿◝ )♡
Even today, I like to recommend comics and shows from Québec to enlighten people to the fact that Abrahamic dogma is just man-made convention, not some kind of divine universal truth.
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