Glee: Can I complain about Emma?
Mar. 9th, 2011 01:37 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shipperx:
When Glee started, the character was an endearing kook. Then they amped up the indiosyncracies and last night they made her significantly messed-up (more than just 'OCD and insecurity' messed-up). It's one thing to give her no sexual experience and an amped degree of innocence and OCD. That goes back to idiosyncracies. But when they've written a thirty-something woman who married someone of her own free will (and under no pressure from anyone to do so), someone who she claims to love, someone who is kind, understanding, and supportive (and handsome and sexy to boot) and then they tell us that after months of marriage she is still incapable of having sex with the wholly unobjectionable guy that she chose but also incapable of even discussing sex, or even picking up blatantly obvious, well-known sexual inuendo then something is WRONG. Seriously wrong. Get thee into therapy wrong.
As with many things on Glee, they pushed this off a cliff. Where they've left her is no cutesy thing. At this point, this is sexual dysfunction. (And why are so many female characters on Glee insane? I grant you, many male characters are disturbingly stupid, but why are so many females corn flakes?)
Kurt's dad is awesome, though.
And if I want to watch women with hang-ups and issues, I'd actually prefer watching Big Love. Nicki Walker Hendrickson may be as screwed-up as they come, but she is both entertaining about it and earned her screwed-upedness in spades. (Seriously, given her history, religion, and family she couldn't be anything else... which is why it doesn't bother me nearly as much).
When Glee started, the character was an endearing kook. Then they amped up the indiosyncracies and last night they made her significantly messed-up (more than just 'OCD and insecurity' messed-up). It's one thing to give her no sexual experience and an amped degree of innocence and OCD. That goes back to idiosyncracies. But when they've written a thirty-something woman who married someone of her own free will (and under no pressure from anyone to do so), someone who she claims to love, someone who is kind, understanding, and supportive (and handsome and sexy to boot) and then they tell us that after months of marriage she is still incapable of having sex with the wholly unobjectionable guy that she chose but also incapable of even discussing sex, or even picking up blatantly obvious, well-known sexual inuendo then something is WRONG. Seriously wrong. Get thee into therapy wrong.
As with many things on Glee, they pushed this off a cliff. Where they've left her is no cutesy thing. At this point, this is sexual dysfunction. (And why are so many female characters on Glee insane? I grant you, many male characters are disturbingly stupid, but why are so many females corn flakes?)
Kurt's dad is awesome, though.
And if I want to watch women with hang-ups and issues, I'd actually prefer watching Big Love. Nicki Walker Hendrickson may be as screwed-up as they come, but she is both entertaining about it and earned her screwed-upedness in spades. (Seriously, given her history, religion, and family she couldn't be anything else... which is why it doesn't bother me nearly as much).
