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One of the reasons Felicity was seen as better is that they had a character called out for being homophobic in season one. One of there regulars was a black woman who they had no trouble dismantling the strong black woman trope with. It was on during the same time and also had a better written triangle. They were basically the Everwood off the WB in the 90s at the time and got mistreated in favour of DC.
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That is awesome Felicity has this. Not awesome, and infuriating it was shoved aside for DC.
So wrong.
Dawson's Creek had the famous line from Joey in the Pilot:
1. In the Pilot, Joey is asked why people don’t like her. She says: “Pick a topic, there's my dad the imprisoned convict, or my sister,
impregnated by her black boyfriend.”
Bodie, the “black boyfriend” (
) is shown to be sweet, but unfortunately his race, and the fact that he lives, unmarried, with a white woman who is mother to his unborn child, becomes a... reason in Capeside as to why Joey doesn’t fit in.
That is so pathetic, disgusting and yes, RACIST.
2. Then there's poor Jen, a few episodes in, admitting to Dawson that not only has she had sex before, she’s had sex with multiple partners. Dawson stops talking to her! Unreal! Like she did something "wrong" or was damaged goods. Jen feels awful about herself (
), especially about the bit where she lost her virginity aged 12 to an “older guy who got her drunk(!)” (WOW, this is sickening how Jen is portrayed and young girls and women in general) and tells Dawson that she’s “not that girl anymore." Dawson forgives her like she did something wrong and had to be forgiven!
3. Then there's Pacey’s constant harassment of his brother for being gay. He didn't know it was reality but Pacey's harassing and bullying Doug at the mere thought of being gay is repulsive.
4. Don't even get me started on how they destroyed mental illness and basically laughed at it indirectly.
5. Or this, back to Jen:
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When Jen got blamed for an attempted sexual assault on Dawson's Creek
The subject of Jen Lindley's active love life was always a groanfully taboo one on Dawson's Creek — how many times did Joey Potter put her down for being sexually active?
The distasteful treatment of Jen was never more unsettling than in the episode titled "Full Moon Rising," when Jen makes out with a scuzzball named Vincent in her Gram's kitchen, and the guy almost immediately tries to take things too far above Jen's objections. Thankfully, Gram comes home just in time to stop him from taking advantage of Jen, but as heroic as her timing is, the words she offers her already upset granddaughter are echoes of some pretty classic instances of victim-shaming by telling her she needs to act like a lady and questions whether she has any respect for herself.
The idea that it was her temptress-like behavior that started all this is shocking and a dangerous example of rape culture. Considering the show was already dangerously demoralizing for many of the girls involved when it came to their budding sex lives, this scene in particular stands out as a completely misguided treatment of such sensitive subject matter as sexual assault.
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Oh yes, let's showcase Dawson's Creek instead of Felicity.
