You know, I realized this morning why the general attitude I encounter toward Kathleen Zuelch bugs me, and it’s silly that it took me this long to put my finger on it, but. It’s not because I think Kathleen did nothing wrong--she definitely said some shitty things, you won’t hear me denying that. But there are plenty of RT staff who have said, and done, that bad and worse, yet most fans don’t feel the need to enumerate the sins of, say, Geoff and Gavin, every time they come up in conversation. Most fans don’t have to work to separate their love of Grif from who his VA is as a person.Â
Connect the Hots was forgotten within months, and if you don’t know what I’m talking about, well--that’s my point. There was an outcry at the time, but most fans now don’t remember it, and these days people are surprised to hear I don’t like Geoff and Gavin.Â
Anyone can make mistakes, and people can change; I believe that. But if Geoff and Gavin stalking women in their car and treating it like a game can be forgiven (something which, by the way, prompted no more than a half-assed “sorry you were offended” apology from Geoff and no indication they would actually stop doing it), why are Kathleen’s missteps unforgivable? We aren’t any of us immune to the unconscious double standard.
