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WIJFR: Gilmore Girls and the Politics of Identity (GG SERIES SPOILERS)
I randomly searched my library's catalog for Gilmore Girls a few weeks ago and this popped up. Cool! I put it on hold and finished it over the weekend.
GUYS. It was TOTAL CRAP CRAP CRAP CRAP! I was so pissed off on the plane I wanted to punch someone.
Here are a few jems that I found. I stopped making notes at a certain point because I was so mad. I skimmed the other essays and they were as ridiculously error-prone and had just as big of suggestive leaps.
“Rory Gilmore and Faux Feminism” by Molly McCaffrey (page 35)
Page 35 - “Though Rory’s father was willing to marry Lorelai and her parents were willing to let her reside at home during her pregnancy, Lorelai refused both offers of support…”
WRONG. Lorelai DID live at home during her pregnancy. She didn’t leave until after Rory was born.
Page 38 - “Soon, Marty, like Jess, is driven away by Rory’s fickleness, revealing her desire not to be with a man who treats her as an equal and with respect.”
HOW ON EARTH can this assumption be made? The page goes on to suggest that because Rory didn’t return Marty’s feelings, she clearly doesn’t understand that romantic relationships have friendship foundations.
MAYBE SHE JUST DIDN’T LIKE MARTY ROMANTICALLY????
Page 39 - “In another revealing scene, Rory expresses a need to change out of her stuffy Daughter of the American Revolution clothes, and Logan stops her, claiming she has the “hot librarian thing going on”, effectively reducing her to a physical trophy.”
SO, any comment on looking good reduces a woman to a physical trophy?
Page 44- “Interestingly, the pressure that the senior Gilmores exert on Rory is most often related to her grandfather’s desire for her to go to Yale even though both Emily and Richard went to school there.”
WRONG. Emily didn’t go to Yale.
Page 46 - “Without considering the consequences of her actions, she allows her grandparents to pay for her tuition at both Chilton and Yale, buy her a new car for her high school graduation, and decorate her freshman dorm room like a luxury hotel.”
UM, WHAT? I don’t think that Rory had any say in her grandparents paying for Chilton. And the car was a gift. How do you refuse a gift from YOUR GRANDPARENTS?
“Food Fights” by Lindsay Coleman (page 175)
Page 189 - Indeed, Rory’s reference to Luke as Hagrid is one of the more apt references/analogies which the series has formulated.
WRONG! April told Luke that ANNA and her friends call him Hagrid!
Emmett born 01/28/2013
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Re: WIJFR: Gilmore Girls and the Politics of Identity (GG SERIES SPOILERS)
This doesn't even make sense as a sentence. "The senior Gilmores" (Emily and Richard, I assume) want Rory to go to Yale "EVEN THOUGH" they went there? Wouldn't they want her to go there BECAUSE they went there, not IN SPITE OF the fact?
I swear, I'm going to shut up about this soon. Maybe. Nah, probably not.
:P
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2013 Books Read: 90 * 2012 Books Read: 125
2011 Books Read: 150 * 2010 Books Read: 117
Jennie Writes Words ~~~ We Still Read ~~~ Presidential Challenge
WHICH, IS EXACTLY THE POINT! BECAUSE IT WAS ONLY RICHARD WHO WENT TO YALE! It isn't some backhanded way of being patriarchal!
Emmett born 01/28/2013
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2013 Books Read: 90 * 2012 Books Read: 125
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Jennie Writes Words ~~~ We Still Read ~~~ Presidential Challenge
I would've, but I am terrified of plane bathrooms.
Emmett born 01/28/2013
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2013 Books Read: 90 * 2012 Books Read: 125
2011 Books Read: 150 * 2010 Books Read: 117
Jennie Writes Words ~~~ We Still Read ~~~ Presidential Challenge
June 29, 2013
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Also, and I'm several years out from when I last watched the show, but wasn't the to-take-their-money-or-not-take-their-money thing a major source of contention between Rory and Lorelai (and between Lorelai and her parents)? I feel like the grandparents putting Rory in this situation came up in conversation a lot. And like... didn't Rory get mad when she found out her mom took the money to pay for Chilton because they were stuck with Friday night dinners?