Lizzie may have called her a slut, but it was Lydia's actions that made it true, and nothing that she's said or done since then has made those words untrue in anyway.
I wholeheartedly disagree. Yes, we've heard of Lydia looking for boys to mack on, but we've heard absolutely nothing about her having sex with any of them. In fact, we had proof that she and Wickham had waited a few weeks before having sex. At one point in her videos, Lydia admits (in regards to the drugs that she'd stolen when she was babysitting) that she wasn't nearly as much of a party girl as everyone thought. That she liked to have fun but wasn't "crazy."
*thumbs up* One of the reasons I was so annoyed that the writers choose to go a sex tape route with Lydia was that it ties into all these cultural ideas about purity and 'how much sex good women have.' EVEN IF Lydia was EXACTLY as much of a party girl as she presented herself, why is that so wrong? Why is it so awful for her to choose to just have casual sex with dudes? It doesn't matter how many people she fucked, she only consented to being filmed because she was manipulated into it, she CERTAINLY didn't say yes to putting it up on the interent.
Additionally, I don't see how making a sex tape with someone you're in an established relationship with is slutty in any way. George was her boyfriend, she believed they were in love-- if she hadn't been manipulated into consenting to the tape, would it still have been slutty for her to do so?
My answer is 'fuck no.'
I don't think she showed a lack of consideration for her sisters or was especially self-involved in this episode, especially since she mentioned she felt guilty for "ruining their lives" and the majority of repercussions of this horrible situation affected her personally. Lizzie and Jane both chose to come home, knowing that it would jeopardize their school and job situations, and up until this point Lydia wasn't even ready to start accepting her sisters' support.
*nods* And again, this is one of those places where I really wished that the show had decided to go with something medical, where it feels more believable that Jane would really need to be at home.
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I wholeheartedly disagree. Yes, we've heard of Lydia looking for boys to mack on, but we've heard absolutely nothing about her having sex with any of them. In fact, we had proof that she and Wickham had waited a few weeks before having sex. At one point in her videos, Lydia admits (in regards to the drugs that she'd stolen when she was babysitting) that she wasn't nearly as much of a party girl as everyone thought. That she liked to have fun but wasn't "crazy."
*thumbs up* One of the reasons I was so annoyed that the writers choose to go a sex tape route with Lydia was that it ties into all these cultural ideas about purity and 'how much sex good women have.' EVEN IF Lydia was EXACTLY as much of a party girl as she presented herself, why is that so wrong? Why is it so awful for her to choose to just have casual sex with dudes? It doesn't matter how many people she fucked, she only consented to being filmed because she was manipulated into it, she CERTAINLY didn't say yes to putting it up on the interent.
Additionally, I don't see how making a sex tape with someone you're in an established relationship with is slutty in any way. George was her boyfriend, she believed they were in love-- if she hadn't been manipulated into consenting to the tape, would it still have been slutty for her to do so?
My answer is 'fuck no.'
I don't think she showed a lack of consideration for her sisters or was especially self-involved in this episode, especially since she mentioned she felt guilty for "ruining their lives" and the majority of repercussions of this horrible situation affected her personally. Lizzie and Jane both chose to come home, knowing that it would jeopardize their school and job situations, and up until this point Lydia wasn't even ready to start accepting her sisters' support.
*nods* And again, this is one of those places where I really wished that the show had decided to go with something medical, where it feels more believable that Jane would really need to be at home.