Why I Love Scully, by Jess Mabe
My hubby and I were watching some awful old Clint Eastwood movie the other
day (don't ask why. It's a guy thing) with Tyne Daley as his new partner.
She spent most of the movie being ignored or passed over by other men in the
department, making the same mistakes any rookie would make (but being blamed
for them because she's a woman, of course), being sexually harassed and
finally, finally being allowed, at the very end, to save Clint's macho ass
by... killing another woman.Halfway through this seventies schlock-fest, I turned to my hubby and said:
I grew up on this. And you wonder why I love Scully!To which my normally-Scully-hatin' hubby replied: I hear ya.
Scully would never, ever let someone talk down to her. She would insist on
being heard. She can shoot, fight, talk and love as well as any man. She's
always "feminine", and she's always tough as nails. When she makes a
mistake, she admits it, and never blames it on her sex. No one ever sexually
harasses Scully (except Mulder and that's only because he LOVES). And she
has never had to prove herself by saving Mulder's ass. She was already
amazing, long before he came into the picture. And best of all, she's
enormously human, with failings and foibles and strengths and they are all
believable as a PERSON, not just as a woman. I love that little red-headed
fireball, and thank God it ain't the seventies no more!Jess Mabe