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The plan to detonate the Jughead bomb WAS NEVER Jack’s plan. It was Daniel’s plan. Why do people keep forgetting this?

Yeah, I was picked on in school like crazy – a nerd, the tallest girl, I had literally no friends in the 6th grade because of these things and I’ve been kicked and called names. But I still have privilege from being white. Nobody’s trying to infer that you don’t know what being ostracized is like. We’re just trying to tell you that you don’t know what it’s like to be a woman. You don’t. You don’t know what it’s like to have to think about the possibility you might be raped every time you go out alone at night. You don’t know what it’s like to have to worry about your looks constantly and be told from every magazine cover and billboard that you don’t measure up and you’d better or no man is going to want you and no job is going to hire you.

And you don’t know what it’s like to watch TV or films and 75% of the time have to watch things from a man’s point of view. This may seem like nothing big to you, but imagine this – imagine you were told you could only watch films or TV shows for one year with female lead characters – as in, the protagonist of the film or show. You couldn’t watch shows with male lead characters they just weren’t being made because the people making all the shows were predominantly female and so cared more about female concerns.

Movies like “Gladiator” and “Saving Private Ryan” are scoffed out of the Oscars as “men’s pictures” in favor of “Fried Green Tomatoes” and “When Harry Met Sally” which are considered the heavy hitters to beat at Oscar time, because they are about issues that matter like relationships and love rather than being “dude flicks” about unimportant stuff like war and action.

Do you start to understand? A little? I’m not trying to get up in your face here, just to suggest that there is another perspective on this matter.

I love men. I love my husband. He didn’t get a lot of this stuff when we first met either. I don’t have a problem with male lead characters and “Lost” offers me some great ones to choose from. But it is always sad to me to see that either Damon and Carlton don’t know what to do with their female characters and kill them off or they are more willing to expend the females in the service of the story. R.I.P. Shannon, Libby, Ana-Lucia, Rousseau (that one, admittedly, was the actress’ choice), and now Juliet. On the flipside you have Charlie, Michael, Mr. Eko (also actor’s choice), and not really Locke because he’s still acting on the show in another, perhaps even more intriguing, guise.

And it’s not even really Darlton that’s sad so much as the legions of male fans who can’t even stand that we have one female left on the show who does more than worry about her husband or her baby. And the reason people seem to hate her is because she “won’t choose” between two men. Indiana Jones never really chose so well either, nor did James Bond, but that’s okay, huh?

Anyway, Monique and Fishbiscuit are not alone in their observations. The feminist movement may have stalled, but women are not yet equal and won’t be until it’s taken for granted that on a show where a bunch of people survive a plane crash a little more than half of the characters should be female (mirroring the population of earth, you know.)

I love “Lost”, but it’s definitely behind-the-times in terms of female characters. Think of something like “Firefly” and there you’ll get a sci-fi show with some real female characters. I wish they could have taken some story-notes from Joss Whedon. Everything else is peachy, but yeah, the lack of dynamic, breathing females is a damn shame.

They have no trouble with a female storyteller telling tales that empower women, or confront their difficulties.. but the white man is not allowed such a privilege. McDonalds has to feature a minority in each commercial, and Damon Lindelof has to make sure one of the women on the Island is more than just arm candy.

I thought they had invested pretty heavily in someone known as Kate Austen and Claire, but I guess we just all see them as the pregnant chick and the top of the triangle.

As if you are the ONLY one who knows this pain.

Do you have any idea of how ignorant that it is? How offense that is? How sexist or racist that is? Obviously you don’t. Obviously you’re no better than the people you cast your haughty glance upon as “racist” or “sexist” beings.

It’s like any rational thought or constructive criticism that is belied upon you, MoniquE, you just completely shrug it off as inconceivable. In short, it is the most ASTOUNDING display of close-minded arrogance and supreme sense of righteousness that anyone could possibly display. Yet with the same vehemence you persecute and discriminate against others who would disagree with you or display characteristics indicative that they show a belief in politics or religion upon which you disagree. And you then sum up the basis for your disapproval that others just don’t understand, can’t understand, or won’t understand because they are so CLOSE-MINDED!

Do you understand what a brilliant shining example of hypocrisy you are? I hope so, because I registered just to make this comment.

There’s a lot of fantasy projection in this conversation.

Also I spent a very long time constructing an argument that I feel you glossed over and scarcely considered every time I tweaked it and re-posed it to you. Again, I was interested in a discussion not dismissive remarks that amounted to nothing more than: “Oh that one sentence doesn’t make sense and you can’t possibly see what I do because of your bias”. I am/was trying to be very fair about the argument for sexism being an unfortunate part of Lost’s fabric. I didn’t find anything that convinced me, if anything I think a better argument can be made for the Lost writers being collectively bad at writing for females and not being consciously sexist. I would almost buy that. Almost. But it strikes me that you are not willing to consider another side. Again, this is my actual FINAL last post on this matter. See you in another thread!