She never asked to be popular. It isn’t something that was given to her. She earned it.
People really don’t understand how much work it is. It’s like playing politics. You can’t just be yourself and damn the consequences. You can’t worry if people actually care about what you’re saying, or how you feel. You just need for there to be people—the right people. You play your cards and hope that at the end of the day, you find what you’re looking for in a sea of not.
Yes, Cordelia can be cruel. Yes, she can be self-centered. But does it make it right to beat up her boyfriend? Or to shove her best friend down a flight of stairs? Or do radical plastic surgery on her face? No. Absolutely not. Cordelia Chase is not some a lesson to be learned. She is a fierce alpha female who will eat you alive if you didn’t play things her way and you don’t make an example out of her without paying the consequences.
This is exactly what she was saying in class: just because you’re oppressed, doesn’t make it okay. Plenty of people are unpopular and weird in high school, and they don’t turn into homicidal maniacs. Take Buffy, for example.
… Or maybe don’t take Buffy, she is pretty violent.
The point is, it isn’t about who is more popular than who. It’s about common human decency and playing the roles you’re given. After all, we can’t all be super popular.
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People really don’t understand how much work it is. It’s like playing politics. You can’t just be yourself and damn the consequences. You can’t worry if people actually care about what you’re saying, or how you feel. You just need for there to be people—the right people. You play your cards and hope that at the end of the day, you find what you’re looking for in a sea of not.
Yes, Cordelia can be cruel. Yes, she can be self-centered. But does it make it right to beat up her boyfriend? Or to shove her best friend down a flight of stairs? Or do radical plastic surgery on her face? No. Absolutely not. Cordelia Chase is not some a lesson to be learned. She is a fierce alpha female who will eat you alive if you didn’t play things her way and you don’t make an example out of her without paying the consequences.
This is exactly what she was saying in class: just because you’re oppressed, doesn’t make it okay. Plenty of people are unpopular and weird in high school, and they don’t turn into homicidal maniacs. Take Buffy, for example.
… Or maybe don’t take Buffy, she is pretty violent.
The point is, it isn’t about who is more popular than who. It’s about common human decency and playing the roles you’re given. After all, we can’t all be super popular.
If we were, what would be the point?