Episode Report Card Jacob Clifton: A+ | 56 USERS: A YOU GRADE IT Don't Talk Too Loud
By Jacob Clifton | Season 5 | Episode 14 | Aired on 03.16.2014
Moody: "I only did what Eli wanted that night!"Will: "That is a matter of interpretation and also GO AWAY. Seriously, stay the hell away from me or I'm calling security. You are burning down the city right now with this bullshit."
HOTEL BAR
Alicia is slumped in a banquette but she holds it together okay. The strategy for the team is that she stay silent and choose her words very carefully, which is also the strategy for Alicia every single day, so it works out okay. The boys are, um, horrified at her slight inebriation, because nobody wants to see Mommy tipsy, and also because she is the womanhood stalking horse. It's a poor craftsman that blames his tools, but when that tool just got white-girl wasted with her ex-boyfriend and current nemesis...
What's most interesting about this scene, to me, is the way that Rayna's body is angled toward hers in such a way that the boys are always interrupting the conversation, no matter what. And the boys never notice this, of course, and Rayna is too cool to change it, so the whole thing is awkward in a way that puts her on top and Alicia in the middle and the boys are just hilarious. Well, "hilarious." They're men, they act like men, and everybody pretends not to notice, because that's part of the deal.
Rayna: "Alicia, I liked your speech!"
Boys: "Wasn't it so woman-power? Anyway, about our firm..."
Rayna: "I'll decide in 48 hours. I'm telling you this so you'll back off, so listen up. I am into your firm because you have women partners. Do you get what I'm saying?"
Boys: "We do not. Allow us to explain to you about how treating women like people..."
Rayna: "Alicia. Why did you leave LG? I'm vetting them too, but this is your major question also."
Alicia: "I loved it there, to a point. They let me grow, and learn, and then it was time to put what I'd learned on its feet."
Rayna: "Good answer, Alicia..."
Boys: "Wasn't it? Now about Florrick/Agos..."
Rayna: "Alicia. What do you want in life?"
Alicia: "Joy, and self-determination. I want a happy life, and to control my fate."
Rayna: "Got it. Thanks, Alicia."
Did we ever talk about that study, I think it was in New Zealand, where they showed discussions among different ratios of men to women, and no matter what the selection was or how much the women talked, both men and women consistently reported that the women in the group were talking like twenty percentage points more than they were? Even the people running the study overestimated the percentage of time the women took up with their jibber-jabber. Anything over some fucking ridiculously low number, like 30%, and people reliably perceived that the women were dominating the conversation.
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