Her boyfriend is pissed because she kept quiet about a relationship that ended a long time before they even met for the first time
I am still not sure why exactly he was so pissed off. I think it was because Duffy told him about the relationship, meaning everybody knew but him that she'd been sleeping with a colleague. But other than that I couldn't make sense of his anger at all. Especially because I still don't know why it was so important for him to know about this one guy.
and of course he's right and she's in the wrong and should apologize despite him having flipped his lid?!
That I didn't see. She was angry at Duffy for telling her boyfriend, but she never told the boyfriend she was sorry and she never actually seemed sorry (didn't she tell her father that she would do it the same way again?). I don't even think the show wanted me to believe she was in the wrong in the first place. If they did, they would have made the boyfriend's point a lot more comprehensible.
Surely you know that the only things women are allowed to want are children and a domestic life? CJ Cregg in The West Wing (CJ, for heaven's sake) - married Danny and ended up showing round baby pictures; Olivia Dunham in Fringe went down the whole accelerated pregnancy and birth route ... Samantha in Without A Trace (admittedly because the actress was pregnant) ... Jordan in Studio 60 (likewise) ... the list goes on. Women who don't want these things are generally considered abnormal and unfeeling, and we must be shown to be doing everything in our power to obtain them.
Oh goodness, the whole Brennan/Booth storyline! So annoying. I stopped watching Bones with the end of last season. Couldn't stand to watch Brennan become the whiny bitch ALL pregnant women ALWAYS end up as - because of the HORMONES!!
Case in point: Scully.
Also, why is it that every moderately strong woman on TV always has daddy-issues? It seems you can't become a "heroine" unless you have a fucked-up relationship with at least one of your parents - or no parents at all.
The problem/s with American TV is that TPTB behind it, primarily, are men, men, men, men, men. Who completely underestimate and pigeonhole the people watching their programs, who are entirely out-of-touch with regular folk, who target a too narrow audience segment for their advertisers (young men, because they're deemed to be the most stupid free with spending their money, and who fail to realize that their diminishing audience shares are not just because viewers have more options elsewhere now, but because the Big 4 put out so much crap.
I've always contended that a large part of the reason Stargate: SG-1 went so far downhill after JG left was because of the middle-aged, white men who took over and insisted on using the show to live out their middle-aged, white men fantasies. (See: Super!Sam, their middled-aged, white men's crush and totally out there idea of what a "real woman" should be. Super smart but always overcome by her simpering love for "Sir.") But, that was Canadian TV, so... ::g
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I am still not sure why exactly he was so pissed off. I think it was because Duffy told him about the relationship, meaning everybody knew but him that she'd been sleeping with a colleague. But other than that I couldn't make sense of his anger at all. Especially because I still don't know why it was so important for him to know about this one guy.
and of course he's right and she's in the wrong and should apologize despite him having flipped his lid?!
That I didn't see. She was angry at Duffy for telling her boyfriend, but she never told the boyfriend she was sorry and she never actually seemed sorry (didn't she tell her father that she would do it the same way again?). I don't even think the show wanted me to believe she was in the wrong in the first place. If they did, they would have made the boyfriend's point a lot more comprehensible.
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Case in point: Scully.
Also, why is it that every moderately strong woman on TV always has daddy-issues? It seems you can't become a "heroine" unless you have a fucked-up relationship with at least one of your parents - or no parents at all.
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I've always contended that a large part of the reason Stargate: SG-1 went so far downhill after JG left was because of the middle-aged, white men who took over and insisted on using the show to live out their middle-aged, white men fantasies. (See: Super!Sam, their middled-aged, white men's crush and totally out there idea of what a "real woman" should be. Super smart but always overcome by her simpering love for "Sir.") But, that was Canadian TV, so... ::g ( ... )
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