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yknow what yeah I think that's just about how anyone would react in this situation. fair enough.

alright this isn't how just Anyone would behave in this situation but I'm humble enough to admit that there have been times in my life when I was doing badly enough that I'd probably also fumble it like this

Mahmoud Darwish, from Journal of an Ordinary Grief (tr. from the Arabic by Ibrahim Muhawi)

put dates on everything

don’t believe digital stuff is preserved forever - if it’s really important (documents, photos, etc) print it out

name your files accurately I know it sucks but please

don’t destroy the original just bc you scanned it

rubber cement is the devil’s adhesive use photo corners and quit gluing shit

you will NOT remember write it down

if you staple things to the inside of a folder I will find you

When he treats Samira differently than Ogilvie after the AAA, it’s not because he’s being a harsh #girldad with his least favorite #daughter. It’s because Ogilvie is a med student! And he can’t hold him responsible for a mistake that Samira was supposed to catch as senior resident! Even she agrees with him on that point. Does he give the following advice about compartmentalization in the best way? No. Should he have reassured her that she does belong in the ED? Maybe. The fact that he is 1) holding her accountable for her neglect, 2) communicating poorly with her about the consequences of her panic attack, and 3) withholding sympathy because he wants her to be better at compartmentalizing than he is, already is so juicy and interesting. None of thjs has to do with surrogate fatherhood. It’s about what it means to have trainees. The attachments and emotions that come with mentoring people in life or death situations. Reducing it to some girldad personality bullshit is not only infantilizing Samira (and McKay, Santos, etc), it’s fundamentally not being able to imagine any social order functioning except for the personal and individual. This is about people struggling to keep their humanity within impossible structures.

Same with Robby stepping up for Javadi later on with her mom. The contrast here is clear— Javadi’s mom is being inappropriate precisely because she’s inserting a parental role into a professional training. Robby wants Javadi to retain her confidence because the continuation of emergency medicine literally depends on this transference of knowledge and skill. Robby is teaching, not parenting.

And why he might think Javadi belongs but can’t reassure Samira of the same? Well, Javadi isn’t even a med school grad yet; he’s seen Samira as a resident for four years. It’s his literal job to assess her. And is he blinded by his own internal biases, of who he recognizes as brilliant and others he finds more inconsistent? Totally. Again, though, this is part of his teaching, not parenting.

I do get why girl-dad Robby is appealing for the memes and TikToks. And honestly most mainstream reviewers dwell on it as well. But its easy appeal reveals two fantasies:

Robby is supposed to love his children equally

Robby’s draw to his job is essentially familial

Again, I get the appeal for fanfic and fan art. But as analysis, these fantasies are uninteresting to me because it blocks off engagement with the gnarliness of the actual stuff the show is interested in. First— Robby’s position and the whole hierarchical chain of command in the ED (and yes it’s pseudo-militarized, that’s why Dana calls him “cap”) means that he is not treating everyone equally. He’s sorting. He’s interpreting and measuring their capabilities moment to moment. Again— gnarly terrain for exploration of bias and distortion! Amazing to think with! Flattened into pure sentimentality by “bad girldad is ignoring girlboss Samira, how dare he?!?!”