Oh, man, this is the LATEST COMMENT, I am so sorry.
YES. A million times yes to everything you've said here. It's not just that the stories were centered around male characters, but that there was so much effort put into making sure women-centered storyarcs didn't get to stay women-centered. Which, imo, is even more hurtful than simple erasure. It's blatant, glaring redirection. And, as you've said, it was literally EVERY SINGLE STORYLINE in the episode, which, for me, made it impossible to brush off with "lol Glee," because in every single scene we kept getting reminded that the female characters' stories weren't the ones we were supposed to hear.
Remember that spoiler about the scene where Santana comes out to Sue, with Brittany and Becky there? How much more interesting and meaningful would that have been, getting to see Santana telling Sue - a character she's had more history with on the show than anyone besides Brittany or Quinn - on her own terms, in her own way, with her girlfriend by her side and being supportive? NOPE, SORRY, WE NEEDED MORE SCREEN TIME FOR FINN HUDSON.
I would read the fuck out of a fic that rewrote this episode to actually focus on the female characters in the way you described.
(Also, I just realized something: Sue is the only character on the show who actually told Santana she was sorry for playing a part in her outing. Not Finn, not Will for condoning Finn's behavior. Sue.)
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Re: warning: it is probably impossible to make sense of any of this, because i'm tired & stuff & stu
Date: 2011-12-03 07:01 pm (UTC)YES. A million times yes to everything you've said here. It's not just that the stories were centered around male characters, but that there was so much effort put into making sure women-centered storyarcs didn't get to stay women-centered. Which, imo, is even more hurtful than simple erasure. It's blatant, glaring redirection. And, as you've said, it was literally EVERY SINGLE STORYLINE in the episode, which, for me, made it impossible to brush off with "lol Glee," because in every single scene we kept getting reminded that the female characters' stories weren't the ones we were supposed to hear.
Remember that spoiler about the scene where Santana comes out to Sue, with Brittany and Becky there? How much more interesting and meaningful would that have been, getting to see Santana telling Sue - a character she's had more history with on the show than anyone besides Brittany or Quinn - on her own terms, in her own way, with her girlfriend by her side and being supportive? NOPE, SORRY, WE NEEDED MORE SCREEN TIME FOR FINN HUDSON.
I would read the fuck out of a fic that rewrote this episode to actually focus on the female characters in the way you described.
(Also, I just realized something: Sue is the only character on the show who actually told Santana she was sorry for playing a part in her outing. Not Finn, not Will for condoning Finn's behavior. Sue.)