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In that there that isn’t here, I allow myself to love you. – p.d

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yeah, there’s somethin’ ‘bout you boy...

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I keep seeing these posts slipping through my blacklist of Glee fans totally shocked that all of Rachel's agency and individuality has been stripped away in favor of continued deference to a fairly worthless male character, and Glee fans totally insulted that Quinn was LITERALLY RUN OVER BY A TRUCK WITHIN THE SAME EPISODE THAT SHE GAINED INDEPENDENCE so that they could rework her storyline to be once again unhealthily dependent on a brand-new male character, and Glee fans railing against how Brittana have been totally shafted as a legitimate couple in terms of romantic storylines or physical expression compared to Klaine, and Glee fans wondering why Tina and Mercedes STILL have yet to have salient and engaging storylines about their own characters outside of serving as props to Mike or Artie or Sam or the white Glee clubbers as a while, and I'm just sort of like...

When are you going to just accept that all RIB cares about is promoting the idea that women are useless, manipulative, weak, shameful, whiny, valueless, and undeserving of agency, individuality, and independence (doubly so if you're bisexual/lesbian and TRIPLY so if you're a WOC)?

And when will that be enough that people will just stop watching the fucking show?

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That tag about Glee was flawless. Major props.<3

Thank you!  Seriously, I had seen a screener of the pilot a month or two before the show originally premiered, and that pilot episode is still *probably* the most flawless hour of television that I have ever seen.  The first thirteen episodes in general were fairly strong, although the All Women Are Evil And Manipulative And Slaves To Their Uterii undercurrent seriously irks me.  But everything after that has gotten steadily worse… to the point where I am offended by MOST aspects of Glee. 

I’m offended by the lack of care in the writing and lack of continuity, I’m offended by the complete abandonment of their original premise, I’m offended by their ABOMINABLE treatment of all of the female characters, and I’m offended that Glee is continuously lauded as an open-minded and accepting show when it DOES treat its characters as flat tropes and/or NEGATIVE flat tropes. 

Yes: it is AMAZINGLY wonderful to see LGBTQAIP characters treated as the main characters of a show and not the plucky sidekicks or punching bags.  But it would be even more wonderful if they had aspects of their personalities that were NOT their sexualities addressed with as much tact and sympathy as their sexualities are.

And while I love Brittany/Santana (and Santana particularly), their characterizations before RM decided to follow fan-demand and actually make Brittana canonical opens up huge plotholes AND social accountability holes for their characters — and ones that could have been avoided in the first place if the Glee writing staff had more respect for female characters. 

I want to know what Santana’s home life is like and I want to see what Brittany’s plans for her future are and I want to understand what Kurt wants to do for college and whether Blaine does anything at Dalton besides sing solos all day. 

I want to hear about Mercedes’ favorite subject besides choir and what she and Tina do when they hang out, and I want to know why Mike joined the football team in the first place.  It’d be nice to have known that Quinn and Sam even WENT TO CHURCH, much less that they go to the SAME church and whether/how that affected their relationship when they were dating.  I’d like for Glee to remember or acknowledge that Quinn had a baby… as something other than fodder for stretchmark jokes.

I want to know why Kurt feels so alone and singled out in a town where Rachel can have two gay dads and never get shit for it.

Ideally, what I feel like Glee would be most successful with as a show model would be a musical show structured a little like Skins, with one episode in each season centered around any one of the characters but tangentially affecting them all so that bit by bit, piece by piece, they ALL get fleshed out fully.

But what do I know.  I’m not Ryan Murphy.