Well, I think I've sort of come to the end, and it's mainly character assassination. And strangely, Cuddy's more than House's, even though I've never watched 'for' Cuddy. But I am sensitive to how she treats my boy, and when that started changing inexplicably, I started standing back. I wanted to give the writers time to straighten things out - I'm well aware that with anything literary, and especially with a 'mystery' bent, things aren't always what they seem, but will be explained later. I was waiting for the explanation. But the explanation seems to be 'nope, she's really like that, and what's the problem?'
Their view has become so widely divergent from mine that I can't reconcile them anymore.
As for misogyny...I don't see that like others do, I know. But then, I dont see 'staying home with the kids' as inherently anti-feministic either. I'm happy enough with many traditionally female roles...which is only to say that I don't have that knee-jerk reaction to these things, because they don't bother me, and I've never had a problem with them. You could call it a kind of blindness - I often don't even see it, or if I do, it just doesn't rile me, because I am not offended by ... sorry, lost my words ... I dunno, the idea of embodying traditional female roles. (I'm missing some nuance there, but I hope you understand.)
As to questioning misogyny on the show - to me, that's kind of like questioning violence and murder on Dexter. The character's a serial killer. It shouldn't surprise you to see murder and death abound on that show.
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on 2011-05-19 10:21 pm (UTC)Their view has become so widely divergent from mine that I can't reconcile them anymore.
As for misogyny...I don't see that like others do, I know. But then, I dont see 'staying home with the kids' as inherently anti-feministic either. I'm happy enough with many traditionally female roles...which is only to say that I don't have that knee-jerk reaction to these things, because they don't bother me, and I've never had a problem with them. You could call it a kind of blindness - I often don't even see it, or if I do, it just doesn't rile me, because I am not offended by ... sorry, lost my words ... I dunno, the idea of embodying traditional female roles. (I'm missing some nuance there, but I hope you understand.)
As to questioning misogyny on the show - to me, that's kind of like questioning violence and murder on Dexter. The character's a serial killer. It shouldn't surprise you to see murder and death abound on that show.