dragon enthusiast

the gulf between how genuinely progressive and forward thinking the franchaela storyline is compared to the rest of the show and ESPECIALLY what they're doing with eloise is kind of comical. like one minute we're doing delicately written subtext that sensitively addresses the self-blame a lesbian may feel compounded on top of the self-blame from her infertility issues for not being able to be a wife to a man "the right way" in a storyline that is going to lead to self-acceptance that will come from her liberation from heteropatriarchal norms and the next we're doing a woman who has spent 4 years straight insisting she doesn't want to get married on feminist grounds having her political convictions worn down for choice feminism and The Power Of Love. like what is going on here.

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