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[butterfly]

I've been working on that 'Sexism in Stargate' essay, and wow, but I kinda want to smack Teal'c. It's all the 'woman's that he uses on his wife (ex-wife?), I think.

On a different subject, for when I write my Stargate episode reactions (it'll happen... one day.), I really must mention how much I'm impressed by the emotional continuity of Daniel's character. I was watching Thor's Chariot with my mom and Daniel's very diffident with Jack in that episode, still acting as though he's on the team by Jack's sufferance, from his behavior in Need. He's just not as pushy as he usually is.

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[elz.livejournal.com]

It's really hard to reconcile the way that Teal'c treats Jaffa women with the way he treats women from Earth. It irks me when I watch Birthright, because the door is wiiiide open for Teal'c to discuss that with Sam (or anyone, really) and the show just doesn't go there at all.

[butterfly.livejournal.com]

Part of the problem is watching Buffy and getting whiplash from all the smart, tough, sexy, and respected women.

And it's the soldier thing, I think. Because Teal'c... doesn't, I think, respect Sam as much as he does, say, Jack, at first (he doesn't really pay that much attention to her in Hathor, as I recall, kinda doing his own thing), but comes to understand that for the Tau'ri, things are different, women can fight, can be other than mother or priestess. Which is why Ishta is complicated for him, because she's a Jaffa woman who is acting like a Tau'ri woman.

Teal'c blithe lack of fidelity bugs me, too. He's all pissed at Drey'auc for moving on (for the security and safety of her son, hello), but he's clearly loved Sha'nuac for, like ages, considering that she's the one he dreams about in Changeling. And he cheats on Ishta with Krista and is lovey-dovey with Ishta again not that long after.

Cultural thing? The gender-divide is probably one of the many ways that the Goa'uld use to keep their subjects in line. Use the men to control the women so that you have less work to do.