"I liked the way my character, Shane, was first introduced. You get introduced to her through this sexual action, and I thought that was so cool and just kind of summed up what she enjoys and who she is, to a certain extent. She's a complete sexual being and the great thing is that she doesn't apologize for it. It's just who she is. We rarely see women be able to do that on television"
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The key phrase is “complete sexual being.” That’s a quiet rebuke to how television has historically parceled female sexuality into neat categories: the ingénue, the femme fatale, the comic slut, the victim. “Complete” suggests appetite without pathology, confidence without caricature. When Moennig says Shane “doesn’t apologize for it,” she’s naming a familiar script where women’s pleasure must be balanced by remorse, redemption, or consequence to keep the audience comfortable. Shane, in her telling, opts out of that moral accounting.
There’s also a larger cultural context humming underneath: Moennig is speaking from an era when queer women on TV were scarce and often sanitized. An unapologetically sexual queer character wasn’t just a personality choice; it was a visibility statement. Her “we rarely see women be able to do that” lands as both celebration and indictment: celebration of a character allowed to own desire, indictment of an industry that still treats women’s pleasure as either a problem to solve or a device to sell.
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Moennig, Katherine. (2026, January 15). I liked the way my character, Shane, was first introduced. You get introduced to her through this sexual action, and I thought that was so cool and just kind of summed up what she enjoys and who she is, to a certain extent. She's a complete sexual being and the great thing is that she doesn't apologize for it. It's just who she is. We rarely see women be able to do that on television. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-liked-the-way-my-character-shane-was-first-142658/
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Moennig, Katherine. "I liked the way my character, Shane, was first introduced. You get introduced to her through this sexual action, and I thought that was so cool and just kind of summed up what she enjoys and who she is, to a certain extent. She's a complete sexual being and the great thing is that she doesn't apologize for it. It's just who she is. We rarely see women be able to do that on television." FixQuotes. January 15, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-liked-the-way-my-character-shane-was-first-142658/.
MLA Style (9th ed.)
"I liked the way my character, Shane, was first introduced. You get introduced to her through this sexual action, and I thought that was so cool and just kind of summed up what she enjoys and who she is, to a certain extent. She's a complete sexual being and the great thing is that she doesn't apologize for it. It's just who she is. We rarely see women be able to do that on television." FixQuotes, 15 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-liked-the-way-my-character-shane-was-first-142658/. Accessed 5 Feb. 2026.
