It was pretty much a repeat of that episode of All in the Family when Archie complains about crime and is invited to join a neighborhood watch group. And he's making a big speech and loving it until everyone puts on their hoods.

Ugh. And so gross that she's pointing out that he is absolutely acting in the role of a therapist and he's trying to find the loophole that technically he's her social worker.

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Oh, I agree. And one of the things that makes that so difficult is you've got the people who do want to change things but don't understand that mindset, and the people who have that mindset and so see no reason to change. The only change they see needed is that women start protecting themselves against the "real"…

There's probably good reason for having a psychological block about it too. It basically says that the victim's feelings matter so little that not only does the person not care about violating them, they don't even think they're violating them, even though it's an up-close, physical crime.

Right, but that kind of mindset is just harder to get your mind around if you're not in it.

I realized just as I posted that it might be so edited it just in case.

Isn't it white because it's a kitchen uniform/apron which she'd wearing teaching a cooking class?

Yup, he was always trying to mix his "savior" job with dating, like he's more comfortable trying to date women over whom he has power. The mail order bride was another attempt at the same thing without actually dating at work.

Marketing wouldn't care about the growth of the show. They'd want the popular character people might have heard about. Crazy Eyes was the breakout character in S1—I'd guess even people who didn't watch the show had heard of her. I'm pretty sure MASH advertising referred to Margaret as "Hot Lips" years after that…

I think the idea is that she's a combination of both. Paula Deen with the southern accent and the racism, Martha Stewart because she's in prison for tax evasion.

Yes, because Aleida presumably has people she can stay with, unlike Taystee who had nowhere to go.

I think it's more that they assume that when people don't know they're rapists they assume that the guy's attitude is "Yeah, she tried to say no but fuck that…that doesn't make me a rapist, tho." Where as Coates is more like "I love you and would never want to hurt you. Why are you being hurtful to me?" And then being…

Yeah, I think the show introducing him by making him a creepy homophobe racist shows they didn't intend him to be sympathetic overall. They did want to also put him in situations where he was sympathetic, which is slightly different.

I assumed it worked this way: Sophia was in SHU in the camp. Then she set her cell on fire (or when she flooded it earlier?). That's when she was sent to Max, in the SHU there. Nicky was a regular prisoner at Max. If SHU becomes too crowded in one place they'd presumably be placed in the other SHU, but I thought…

Yes, and the situation of the prison always emphasizes the worst qualities in both. So an inmate is both at the mercy of a sadistic guard, but also at the mercy of Healy's vengeful spite. Or the corporation's evil plans. I'm sure all the inmates would prefer Healy to plenty of other guards, but that's not the same as…

True—but I suspect they'd say they're not missing the point of marketing. In S1 people the character Crazy Eyes became a thing. They'd probably think calling her Suzanne would be throwing away the selling point.

Maybe a better way to put it is to say that now, as an adult, he understands that she wasn't really able to care for herself and so when people don't do what he wants he treats them as if they, too, are not competent like his mother was.

Also that when she tore Daya down when she came home it was out of neediness and insecurity. Still just as toxic, but more vulnerable.

Like I explained in the other comment, it was just a case of things not coming across the right way without tone of voice. Basically, you weren't saying at all what I thought you were saying.