goodbye.

#hello eye!sex

#we could have had it all

ale-la-pazza1:

And Sara. Oh, Sara. This entire rant could have been about Sara. Never in the history of White Collar fandom have there been such vicious double standards. Never have people ignored so much characterization.  Sara Ellis is aggressive and ambitious. She’s not accommodating. She’s not nurturing. She is everything we are told a women should never be. It’s what makes her such a brilliant character. It’s also a large part of what makes fandom hate her. An aggressive and ambitious man is a go-getter who takes charge. An aggressive and ambitious woman is a bitch. And bitch is the Sara-bashers’ favorite word.  Imagine, if you will, Sean Ellis. He’s confident and capable. He has a biting wit. He’s good at his job and he knows it. He’s attractive. And while his relationship with Neal is adversarial, they seem to enjoy sparring with each other. If you can tell me that fandom would not be all over that character, then you’re either ignorant or disingenuous. Sara is awash in double standards. People criticize her for dressing too loudly. Because Neal is the picture of sartorial understatement, apparently. They call her stupid for falling for Keller’s lie in “On the Fence,” as if Keller hasn’t spent multiple episodes leading Peter and Neal around by the nose. And no one calls them stupid for it, despite having less of an excuse than Sara. (They know Keller. She didn’t.) They hate her for being “smug,” yet don’t seem to muster up the same dislike for Neal’s arrogance.  And so many people claim that they would like Sara if only she were different. The claim they liked her back when she was an antagonist. (Which she never was. She was a protagonist who didn’t get along with Neal. There’s a difference.) They claim that it’s not so bad if she can just be Neal’s off screen girlfriend. They’ll choose one scene (that’s totally in keeping with her established character) and say “If only she were like this more often.” When, of course, she’s like that all the time. But there’s nothing Sara could actually do to satisfy these people. What they’re really saying is “If only she weren’t getting her filthy vagina all over Neal,” or “If only we never had to see her.” Or they know that it’s not the “in” thing to hate on women characters, so they create excuses. (“If she would just chop down the mightiest tree in the forest with the herring, then I would like her.”) But she can’t win. She’ll never be good enough. Because they don’t want her to be better. They want her gone. 

That post on sexism in the White Collar fandom by veleda-k

#omg this scene   #he's so jealous   #i miss these days