katpin31791 said:
All Access- I thought was played out real well. There's nothing wrong in showing a woman's weak side. Stellas not perfect even as a cop. Yes, she may have been able to handle things differenly but she's no super woman either. Don't know a woman that is. If they had made her a victim every ep I'd say enough was enough but, this was a one time shot & I truly believe it was played out real well. It showed that yes women can be just as (don't know how to spell this word but gonna try) vulnerable. Men are that way also. As much as they try to be super men they're not. I think everyone was superb.
It isn't as much about vulnerability as it is about making not just one but a string of stupid mistakes and uncharacteristic actions. Had Frankie attacked and subdued Stella in the underground parking lot while no one else was around then perhaps I could have gone along for the violent, ratings grabbing ride. However, to have a trained member of the NYPD, someone who deals in evidence and victims all day, set herself up for a fall was nothing but a cheap tactic on the writers’ part, though well acted by Melina. She didn't report the posting of the sex tape, she didn't report the repeated phone calls, she didn't report him trailing her into an underground parking lot, and when she finally found Frankie in her apartment, though he didn't have a key, she was dumb enough to walk inside and turn her back on him not once but twice. Didn't she take off her jacket? Who does that, honestly, who sees an unwelcome psycho in their apartment and walks in, puts down their keys, takes off their jacket, and then proceeds to exchange words before trying to call the police? Please, that isn't vulnerable that is serving yourself up on a platter. It doesn't take a super woman to see every mistake Stella made and it certainly doesn't take a super woman to know better. This was nothing more that them sticking it to Stella, taking her down a notch, reducing possibly the most competent member of the team and reminding us that she is just a girl rather than the woman we all knew.
I don't think television highlighting the vulnerability of women is new territory, in fact, I dare you to go a week without one of the networks having a female victim at the hand or a stranger or an acquaintance. Though taking the same scenario removing Stella and replacing her with Mac, Danny, Hawkes, or Flack would be new territory, but that will never happen. Why? Society makes it so, people respond to a terrified woman running through her apartment being assaulted, all the better if you put her in a little sundress. Maybe we didn’t get the message during All Access so they had Aiden set on fire and possibly raped the next week. Maybe we missed all the dead and brutalized woman on CSI this season, so the writers just keep teaching us a lesson, as if we could ever forget. We’d hate to make any woman capable and strong it just wouldn’t be right now would it, so the pattern of victimization continues on CSI and television in general, but we excuse it, we allow it, we tolerate it, and then we explain it away.
Ali
See, I had a situation almost like that (there were indications that someone broke into our house about a month ago) but my first instinct was to actually open the door :lol: Course, since I was unarmed and have no training in defense whatsoever, I entreated our male neighbors to help me look in each room (14 doors in all, yes I counted). One of the most hair-rasing experiences in my life. Gah. 
