A Short Rant on Morals in Ep 21

[damigella]

I'll have of course a long commentary once I finish ep 22, but I can only watch it in small installments if I want to preserve the integrity of my laptop screen. 
So I'll start with a few warm-up sentences on ep 21, which I finally managed to watch two days ago.

Fox morality 1: building bombs for a living is healthy and fun - just like fireworks! On the other hand, slutty women (having sex with three, count them three, male coworkers) risk their lives. I suspect the implied solution is: had she married and stayed at home as God intended she wouldn't have gotten these problems. I didn't know what I did in college was so dangerous.

Fox morality 2: your mom always has your interests at heart. Even if she sues your hospital for 30 grand, threatens your and your best doctor's medical license, and finally has the entire hospital evacuated. Because you're such a pathetic loser that you should stick to any man who may possibly be willing to have you, even if he's a pathetic loser himself. 

I screamed when I saw Cuddy hugging her, instead of killing her as she amply deserved. I was all in favor of restoring the previous hip replacement and let her die in pain. 

Comments

[flywoman.livejournal.com]

Yeah, there are always brutal consequences for sex, especially for women (although covert male homosexual affairs are also guaranteed to be punished). It used to really piss me off when Buffy pulled this shit too.

[damigella-314.livejournal.com]

Yes, it's not like we saw all this gay male happiness either (I can't forget the HIV+ guy, and the way he viewed House and Wilson as a couple so that the writers could reassure us that this was definitely not the case).
Bisexual males are unheard of, while Thirteen's bisexuality looks like directly out of a straight man's fantasy.

[pgrabia.livejournal.com]

TPTB are not only homophobic, they're also a bunch of cowards.

[damigella-314.livejournal.com]

So true. [expletive omitted, I'm saving them for the rant on Ep 22]

[coconut-ice22.livejournal.com]

This and all of this *sigh*.

Thirteen is only good for dating women when she's dying, after all.

The one I never got was in "Broken" when House says I'm gay then Lydia laughs "No you're not". The number of times he's said he's gay and they laugh it off as being a big joke, because how could someone like House be gay? One of their not funny "jokes".

[damigella-314.livejournal.com]

Yes, I had forgotten that. Because being gay is a "joke". Idiots.
[That icon still makes me speechless every time. Wherever I am on the Kinsey scale, 6 it is not.]