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writing about sophia from emancipation and was reminded of taub's two sophias this morning and incidentally approx four interns named sophia started at work.......house md (2004-12) was really on to something, huh
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this entire conversation between Taub and Kutner is so insane
idk if I’ve posted on here about this before but like. Taub is actually more based about 13’s bisexuality and also has a more nuanced outlook on the situation, meanwhile Kutner’s remarks, however facetious they may be, are misguided even if he is optimistic about their relationship.
And this also reveals something about Taub doesn’t it… “she’s not a nympho, she’s bi, which means she’s accustomed to partners who don’t need a treasure map. Shovel can be bought.”—he fears that he is replaceable, less because of his partner’s promiscuity but because of his own inadequacy…
I have more to elaborate but alas I’m sleepy rn
I thought it may be bc taub is just more sexually experienced. to kutner—and this is pretty typical for the time—bisexuality is like an idea from porn or something. whereas I would not be surprised if one of the (presumably) younger women taub cheated with was bi or just that his flirting with younger women is aided by him being more conversant about sexuality. either way I think bisexuality is just more normalized for taub.
I also think it’s interesting that the other person who makes an off color comment about thirteen’s bisexuality is wilson—he asks if she’s ever had a threesome in lockdown. it’s the ostensible “good guys” who are weirdest about it.
I mean, to be fair, Taub does make an offhand comment later:
Taub: I don't, and even if I'm wrong, I think you should still split up. It's just a matter of time before one of you finds the other in bed with another woman.
And then Foreman makes a weird comment when he’s alone with Thirteen:
Foreman: Wow. I guess House knows me better than you do. Too bad I don't go both ways.
So I truly can’t tell if these comments being made say anything about the characters saying them, because it’s thrown around so much in this episode.
I don't think the show is trying to portray any of them as biphobic, and in general this show is Like That about women, and thirteen as a bisexual woman is pretty sexualized in this show. but it is pretty biphobic. in the softer side, kutner does attempt to get foreman to admit that he and 13 are still dating by making biphobic remarks ("it's good you broke up because the bisexual thing would have become a problem" basically) but there he's intentionally trying to screw with foreman, so it actually feels less biphobic than these remarks in "unfaithful" (at least in my opinion).
the show does seem to know what biphobia is like, but still seems to make some of the characters be casually biphobic but not in a way where it's meant to be a Thing. kutner also just..... really does talk Like That about women, he makes some comments that are like "that was okay to say in 2008 but it's not okay to say now", but I don't think the show was trying to say something about kutner besides, yeah, he probably sees bisexuality in that way and also he doesn't know the concept of "inside thoughts" (and also that he's in support of the foreteen relationship)
while I don’t think the show means to portray kutner as more biphobic than anyone else, I do think they generally intend to portray biphobia as common but wrongheaded. there are a couple of instances where they v obviously set up biphobia so they can have thirteen make a kind of to-the-audience comment about it. like foreman repeats kutner’s comment about her cheating on him and she’s like actually that’s just an inherent downside of monogamy. (I have seen that scene on yt a lot lol.) and the scene in lockdown where she’s like you know what bisexuality means right??
and overall I think the show is very aware of potentially biphobic readings of thirteen’s plotline. like in lucky thirteen, they head off criticism that they’re portraying relationships with women as meaningless by having house give a plausible character-specific reading. and her ending up with a woman was viewed as an intentional corrective to criticisms of her season 5 plotline (where she sleeps with women casually and then is in a serious relationship with foreman).
no shade at all but imo I think contemporary house fandom sometimes views the past as too much a foreign country. the show had queer writers. queer people were watching the show as it aired. all these discussions were being had even back in 2009!
edited to add: all that being said, I don’t think the show means for any of these comments to be a serious indictment on any character bc speaking this way was much, much more common than it is now (tho perhaps not at work lol). and even if it were, the show has characters (even excluding house) say far more prejudiced things all the time! rewatching the early seasons especially sometimes really makes me gasp lol.
also it turns out unfaithful (5.15) was written by david hoselton and the softer side (5.16) was written by liz friedman. so maybe only liz friedman knows what biphobia is lol. (lockdown was also written by a bunch of guys however.)
having so many house and thirteen feelings today and i didn't even rewatch last resort

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this entire conversation between Taub and Kutner is so insane
idk if I’ve posted on here about this before but like. Taub is actually more based about 13’s bisexuality and also has a more nuanced outlook on the situation, meanwhile Kutner’s remarks, however facetious they may be, are misguided even if he is optimistic about their relationship.
And this also reveals something about Taub doesn’t it… “she’s not a nympho, she’s bi, which means she’s accustomed to partners who don’t need a treasure map. Shovel can be bought.”—he fears that he is replaceable, less because of his partner’s promiscuity but because of his own inadequacy…
I have more to elaborate but alas I’m sleepy rn
I thought it may be bc taub is just more sexually experienced. to kutner—and this is pretty typical for the time—bisexuality is like an idea from porn or something. whereas I would not be surprised if one of the (presumably) younger women taub cheated with was bi or just that his flirting with younger women is aided by him being more conversant about sexuality. either way I think bisexuality is just more normalized for taub.
I also think it’s interesting that the other person who makes an off color comment about thirteen’s bisexuality is wilson—he asks if she’s ever had a threesome in lockdown. it’s the ostensible “good guys” who are weirdest about it.
I mean, to be fair, Taub does make an offhand comment later:
Taub: I don't, and even if I'm wrong, I think you should still split up. It's just a matter of time before one of you finds the other in bed with another woman.
And then Foreman makes a weird comment when he’s alone with Thirteen:
Foreman: Wow. I guess House knows me better than you do. Too bad I don't go both ways.
So I truly can’t tell if these comments being made say anything about the characters saying them, because it’s thrown around so much in this episode.
I don't think the show is trying to portray any of them as biphobic, and in general this show is Like That about women, and thirteen as a bisexual woman is pretty sexualized in this show. but it is pretty biphobic. in the softer side, kutner does attempt to get foreman to admit that he and 13 are still dating by making biphobic remarks ("it's good you broke up because the bisexual thing would have become a problem" basically) but there he's intentionally trying to screw with foreman, so it actually feels less biphobic than these remarks in "unfaithful" (at least in my opinion).
the show does seem to know what biphobia is like, but still seems to make some of the characters be casually biphobic but not in a way where it's meant to be a Thing. kutner also just..... really does talk Like That about women, he makes some comments that are like "that was okay to say in 2008 but it's not okay to say now", but I don't think the show was trying to say something about kutner besides, yeah, he probably sees bisexuality in that way and also he doesn't know the concept of "inside thoughts" (and also that he's in support of the foreteen relationship)
while I don’t think the show means to portray kutner as more biphobic than anyone else, I do think they generally intend to portray biphobia as common but wrongheaded. there are a couple of instances where they v obviously set up biphobia so they can have thirteen make a kind of to-the-audience comment about it. like foreman repeats kutner’s comment about her cheating on him and she’s like actually that’s just an inherent downside of monogamy. (I have seen that scene on yt a lot lol.) and the scene in lockdown where she’s like you know what bisexuality means right??
and overall I think the show is very aware of potentially biphobic readings of thirteen’s plotline. like in lucky thirteen, they head off criticism that they’re portraying relationships with women as meaningless by having house give a plausible character-specific reading. and her ending up with a woman was viewed as an intentional corrective to criticisms of her season 5 plotline (where she sleeps with women casually and then is in a serious relationship with foreman).
no shade at all but imo I think contemporary house fandom sometimes views the past as too much a foreign country. the show had queer writers. queer people were watching the show as it aired. all these discussions were being had even back in 2009!
edited to add: all that being said, I don’t think the show means for any of these comments to be a serious indictment on any character bc speaking this way was much, much more common than it is now (tho perhaps not at work lol). and even if it were, the show has characters (even excluding house) say far more prejudiced things all the time! rewatching the early seasons especially sometimes really makes me gasp lol.
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this entire conversation between Taub and Kutner is so insane
idk if I’ve posted on here about this before but like. Taub is actually more based about 13’s bisexuality and also has a more nuanced outlook on the situation, meanwhile Kutner’s remarks, however facetious they may be, are misguided even if he is optimistic about their relationship.
And this also reveals something about Taub doesn’t it… “she’s not a nympho, she’s bi, which means she’s accustomed to partners who don’t need a treasure map. Shovel can be bought.”—he fears that he is replaceable, less because of his partner’s promiscuity but because of his own inadequacy…
I have more to elaborate but alas I’m sleepy rn
I thought it may be bc taub is just more sexually experienced. to kutner—and this is pretty typical for the time—bisexuality is like an idea from porn or something. whereas I would not be surprised if one of the (presumably) younger women taub cheated with was bi or just that his flirting with younger women is aided by him being more conversant about sexuality. either way I think bisexuality is just more normalized for taub.
I also think it’s interesting that the other person who makes an off color comment about thirteen’s bisexuality is wilson—he asks if she’s ever had a threesome in lockdown. it’s the ostensible “good guys” who are weirdest about it.
not to be constantly ambteen-brained, but couldn't help but notice that even with spencer, thirteen didn't become irrationally risk-averse the way she did with amber. in lucky thirteen, house does the classic fellow loyalty test thing by asking her to cash in spencer's trust in her for spencer's consent to a bone marrow transplant sans irradiation, and thirteen does it, even though she seems torn.
for me, that confirms that her reaction to amber is mostly about guilt. she was paralyzed because any action, however harmless and justified, could play a role in amber's death.
in contrast, thirteen sees spencer more as an extension of herself. the show often plays with the question of, if it were you, would you subject yourself to the high-risk hail mary passes that house proposes? foreman did in euphoria. wilson doesn't, in the show's final set of episodes. here, i think thirteen can honestly tell spencer that if it were her, she would do the bone marrow transplant, even if it's because she doesn't see her life as worth very much--that a fast death from graft versus host is preferable to the long death awaiting her.
i'm genuinely not bothered by the politics of house episodes most of the time but joy to the world really rubbed me the wrong way back in the day and still does. natalie, a bright young girl, dying seemingly for the sin of abandoning a pregnancy she didn't want? cuddy taking the child from the unhoused couple who saved her life to give to a middle or upper class family (and ultimately herself) because poverty makes them unfit parents? sorry to be too woke but it's giving people who rescue dogs from unhoused folks while leaving their owners on the streets.

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it genuinely upsets me how carol sturka or helena eagan will never have 13 episodes a season for an out of this world character building... like yeah yeah anything is achieved with great writing/acting but also man. real tv is so dead
happy birthday foreman 🥳
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WAIT this says he was born in 1976. omar epps was born in 73. this means that foreman is now ALSO officially on the "he's too young to be a neurologist" you're telling me he was 28 in s1??????
see that just. that just can’t possibly make sense. chase’s age I kinda accept because I don’t recall if we actually know whether he studied in america or not and you start your residency earlier in the uk and australia, and also obviously his age change. but FOREMAN? we have an extensive record of foreman’s educational history! four years for bio chem at columbia! another four years at john hopkins! he should be around 26 when starting his internship under cofield, 27 when he starts with marty hamilton. foreman calls himself a neurosurgeon, that is a SEVEN YEAR RESIDENCY. foreman should be thirty three in s1 if he’s starting his fellowship directly after he finishes his residency. if we disregard the neurosurgery thing (because it gets kind of puzzling as to whether he is or isn’t past s1, it feels like something they scrapped) then neurologists typically undergo a four year residency. foreman should be thirty in s1. maybe he skipped a grade or something man I don’t know. or like. two.
NOT to mention that he missed a year of school already due to juvvie -- like sure, he was probably getting SOME education, but he went straight to columbia after high school so must already have been cramming.
the ironic part is that 1976 is what makes sense for CHASE -- his age gets bumped up, but even in s1/cursed it's said his parents divorced 15 years ago when he was 15, so i can accept him being 29... if we pretend he never got a double specialty... and rowan pulled strings... it just about works out that he could be an intensivist in s1.
but foreman???? what's even wilder is that i just checked: omar epp's dob is 7/20/73 -- so it isn't like they picked his birthday and then nudged the years for foreman. this is totally different. why
almost all of them are way too young for their roles. cameron is supposed to be 25/26 in season one according to the wiki. thirteen is canonically 26 in season four. only kutner is a plausible age, which they retconned in the obit (33, born 1975). my working theory for this--especially for the season one ages--is that they initially meant for diagnostics to be a residency, not a fellowship, but then later decided they wanted to give the characters specialties anyway. but then later on house tried to hire masters and hired park, so clearly completing a residency was not necessary? they could've simply, for example, had cameron and thirteen be straight out of med school if they wanted to have their ages be closer to the actors' ages.
i almost kind of wonder if they made foreman younger in lockdown because taub makes a point of bemoaning that he's working for someone a lot younger than him. taub and foreman (based on his older age) are less than ten years apart! taub was born in 1965 and if foreman is 30-ish in season one, he would've been born around 1974.
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day seven: free choice
never used my free day yesterday so i'll just say that as a disabled gurlie with a, uh, checkered history with the medical system, i do actually appreciate that house has a fundamentally anti-establishment orientation towards medical institutions. the diagnostics department basically exists to serve patients who were failed by dozens of other doctors. at various points, especially in the early seasons, house takes to task surgical guidelines aimed to protect doctors over patients, transplant committee cost-benefit analyses, dependence on employer provided health insurance, etc. there is a reason the show at times plays like a chronically ill person's fantasy--because house et al. really do whatever it takes, in a way you will never get in real life.
medical shows naturally gravitate towards doctors as the heroes; they have the most agency, which drives the story forward. house is obviously far from immune from the doctor as god trope, and most of the main characters are sympathetic enough that we take their side over the patient's. but the show is amply clear that all of them are as, if not more, damaged than the patients. and if this--the constant malpractice, the petty crimes, the general unhinged behavior--is still an upgrade from what patients were getting otherwise, what does that say about the normal health care system?
i don't say this in a woo-woo, rfk kind of way. my grandmother was a (third world) doctor, my parents are scientists. but i think in much the same way copaganda promotes undue trust in law enforcement, it's important to consider whether medical shows (intentionally or unintentionally) paper over the very legitimate gripes that marginalized people have with the health care system. i'll always take more comfort in shows that invite viewers to approach our institutions with a healthy skepticism over those that valorize them.
happy birthday foreman 🥳
(ss from Lockdown)

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day five: underrated character
this now seems to be a popular choice, but taub!
when we meet taub, he's presented as the normal guy, with normal guy problems that may seem slight in comparison to the shakespearean tragedy that is every other character's life.
but it would be a mistake to diminish his story. taub was a gifted, accomplished student, but it came at the cost of his mental health. he flourished in a prestigious, well-paying career but when he left for something that genuinely interested him, he feared that he wasn't living up to his potential. if it were a younger fellow struggling with this mismatch between expectations and reality, the show would've resolved this by the end by simply having them attain the success they deserve (indeed they kind of do this with foreman). instead, taub's lot is to try to be a better person, usually fail, and try, try, try again. there's something so real in that.
this is not at all my best written post, but i have thoughts rotating in my brain about how minimizing thirteen to "her life is all about huntington's" is actually not a great thing to do to a character with disability/illness. it totally buys into the phenomenon that pops up both in and out of chronic illness communities of labeling people as their diagnosis, and being encouraged to embrace that wholly, to let it devour you beyond the hold the disability or illness already has on your life. and the result of that is getting absorbed by it, losing who you are as a person in your diagnosis, because you can't see yourself beyond it anymore. and other people start to see the diagnosis instead of you. (a good example of this is when people can't see or understand who thirteen is beyond her huntington's; or, in real life, when abled people comment or complain that for chronically ill or disabled people "everything is always about [diagnosis here]", even if that isn't true.) the whole phenomenon in media specifically is just like... a microcosm of how society teaches us to strip chronically ill and disabled people of their individuality and agency (and teaches chronically ill and disabled people to do this to themselves!) and it really shows how we have to actively work to escape falling into that trap.
like. in and out of chronic illness and disability communities, people are like "i can't imagine having (diagnosis here), that must be awful". and then those of us with disabilities and health issues can get wrapped up in how other people perceive us because of our diagnoses, and how a diagnosis affects our lives. which is only natural and fair! but it's society that makes it problematic and pulls sick people into identifying solely as "sick" because it quite literally profits off of illness. something something. do we really need to repeat those cycles in fiction by reducing characters with chronic illness to, say, "the huntington's girl", for example? something something, it s a good opportunity to look at bias we might not have thought about otherwise. if any of this makes any sense. basically, in regards to media analysis, thirteen's huntington's is essential to understanding her as a character, and i'm absolutely not denying that. but it's also important to remember that she is far, far more than just 'the sick/dying girl', and that's just as crucial to understanding her character (and to understanding the disabled & chronically ill people in our daily lives!), if not more so.
it's particularly galling because thirteen's story is--in a certain light--a classic disability story about coming to reconcile her diagnosis as part of her but not the defining part. pre-canon thirteen is more or less repressing everything; the possibility of having huntington's feels so cataclysmic that it paralyzes her. but the invasive freaks around her learning about her diagnosis both vindicates her fears about being tested and, like a twisted kind of exposure therapy, helps her move on with her life because, you know, the worst thing has already happened and she survived. it's only by owning it that she could allow this not to define her life.