Wow this is frustrating. Right, like your definition states, an implication is a conclusion that can be drawn from something without being explicitly stated. THE SPEAKER'S INTENTIONS DO NOT ENTER THE EQUATION. And when you say "apparently" the only qualification you're giving is that it seems that way to you… so it's…

What do you think "apparently" means? Saying "an apparently schizophrenic view" is equivalent to "a view which it is apparent is schizophrenic." The word "apparently" definitely doesn't do anything to change the substance of the sentence, other than the element that calling her view "schizophrenic" is apparent based…

"…to insert 'modern misogyny' despite her claim that the character in her apparently schizophrenic view 'is not defined by her gender'." You are calling it an "apparently schizophrenic view" that one would exist "despite" the claim of the other. How is this not saying that's a contradiction??

never said i favored it, although i disagree that the show isn't nuanced—that you've totally simplified the narrative is on you. but yes, you implied it by saying it was a contradiction that the story could have misogyny as a major theme without the character being defined by her gender. people being shitty to you…

he has a very weird mix of sometimes being surprisingly insightful and sometimes pushing such harmful frameworks on people who really need help, it's incredibly frustrating.

hmm, i don't think that's true. what are you basing this on? all the psychiatrists working at my local hospital do talk therapy or cognitive behavioral therapy, etc.

I was feeling that same reservation about the pills/numbness thing (and also with the "let's talk about your childhood"), but rebecca did have a long list of medications, and the therapist did qualify the "omg all these drugs" thing by saying let's talk and then discuss appropriate medication, instead of suggesting…

them being related does not make them interchangeable. you have no appreciation of nuance. i'm out.

I don't remember that explicitly, but yeah, there were definitely mentions about her having overzealous fans at points.

Trish got the security after Jessica told her not to hang out with her, and then told her about it. I am confused by you saying Jessica was "surprised" beyond right when she installed the extra security. And "just to try and repair a friendship" seems justification enough when that friend is essentially your sister…

I don't think you "should," but people generally do, maybe even moreso when they're dumped, because presumably they still love their ex, it having just happened that day.

Or they felt weird because they just had sex. They cut away during the kiss, which implied to me that they slept together. Actually the awkward looks strengthened that to me. And yeah, she dumped him, but people (who just got out of a monogamous relationship) often feel a little guilty having slept with someone else…

Oh, did they just kiss? I thought they cut away during, which implies to me they kept on somethin'.

nope it's not with the dictionary. you seem to have missed my point entirely. one is an intrinsic thing and the other extrinsic. besides which, you can have a character informed by their gender (or more relevantly, informed by the gender-based oppression they experience) without being defined by it.

… it was because of Kilgrave (so that Jessica would hang out with her). This was pretty plainly stated, I thought.

Not really true. There's such a thing as code switching, in which you may be more aware of how you're speaking in certain situations / around certain people and thus take more care with mimicking their pronunciation, while with someone you're close to for example you may speak with a heavier accent.

i don't think a character not being defined by their gender is a contradiction at all to showing modern misogyny. one is about the character themselves, and the other is about how the world around them perceives and interacts with the character.

Yeah, I actually liked that he was pretty boring and ineffectual.

Her humor read to me as a way to assert herself against him, which seems incredibly in line with how she would act. It didn't undermine it for me at all, just made it more terrible by way of juxtaposition.

that's what they say.