Okay, I've seen some Ugly Betty, and Daniel appears to be a bastard. The show acknowledges this, but not as much as I'd like. He was really out of line when he said he didn't need a baby-sitter and told Betty to punch-out, because he does, and he calls her all hours of the day and night asking for her help and advice, things that go far beyond the duties of an assistant. And while Betty's mothering of him is unhealthy, he fosters this behaviour. I'd like to think that the show is actually acknowledging the situation, but things will probably have returned to the status quo by next week.
- Re: Sofia, I was probably more sympathetic to her than I was supposed to be. She did have a point that Daniel had everything handed to him and she had to work her way up by being ruthless. It's not going to be as easy for a WOC to become the editor of a magazine as it is for the son of the man who owns the magazine (actually, this applies to Wilhelmina too, she's clearly far more competent than Daniel or Alexis). Of course why the editor of a supposedly 'feminist' magazine had to have her first cover be about getting a man to marry, I don't know. Maybe the point was that the feminist magazine was as hollow as Mode, but less honest? It could be an indictment of the media in general.
- While Betty isn't power hungry, she is ambitious, and she has to deal with a lot of crap from Hilda and her boyfriend Walter for following her dreams.
- The black social worker made me rather uncomfortable, because of course, the over-weight black woman is desperate for a man and would go so far as to stalk someone and abuse her position of power over him. The ending made her slightly more sympathetic, but I'm still not okay with it.
I want to like this show because it does try to represent COC and transgendered people as real (fictional) individuals, but it can and does miss the mark.
I may have more thoughts, but I should be getting to my seminar.
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Fri, Apr. 27th, 2007 09:17 am (UTC)- Re: Sofia, I was probably more sympathetic to her than I was supposed to be. She did have a point that Daniel had everything handed to him and she had to work her way up by being ruthless. It's not going to be as easy for a WOC to become the editor of a magazine as it is for the son of the man who owns the magazine (actually, this applies to Wilhelmina too, she's clearly far more competent than Daniel or Alexis). Of course why the editor of a supposedly 'feminist' magazine had to have her first cover be about getting a man to marry, I don't know. Maybe the point was that the feminist magazine was as hollow as Mode, but less honest? It could be an indictment of the media in general.
- While Betty isn't power hungry, she is ambitious, and she has to deal with a lot of crap from Hilda and her boyfriend Walter for following her dreams.
- The black social worker made me rather uncomfortable, because of course, the over-weight black woman is desperate for a man and would go so far as to stalk someone and abuse her position of power over him. The ending made her slightly more sympathetic, but I'm still not okay with it.
I want to like this show because it does try to represent COC and transgendered people as real (fictional) individuals, but it can and does miss the mark.
I may have more thoughts, but I should be getting to my seminar.