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Date Posted: 19:30:42 02/08/15 Sun
Author: Alicia
Subject: Great idea! So glad you are doing this! I just saw this last week. It's one of those episodes that tips the scales of like/dislike Mac for me, and shows how really Harm was more of an advocate for women than Mac. (inside)
In reply to: usmgrad 's message, "Throwback Thursday" on 07:48:44 02/05/15 Thu

I wish in this episode that Mac was originally empathetic to the Lt. She attributed Harm's new found understanding to the aviator bond, but that was always Harm. Though there attributions to Harm being chauvinistic at different times in the series, oddly Mac seemed more of one.
She didn't react until she was put in the same place, and changed her view. It was because she had to walk in the defendants shoes. Rules were rules unless they had to do with Mac. Then her good reasons were enough to do what she needed to do. This from even the first episode she appeared in. However, Mac was written to hold everyone's feet to the proverbial fire, will little empathy for their reasons or justifications. There was an inherent hypocrisy in Mac, and episodes like this highlighted it.
Yet, I do like this episode alot. :-)

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[> [> That was the way Mac usually handled conflicts involving women from the beginning. The way she saw it(and she was a woman who had dealt with alot of the daily fall out from serving as a woman in the Marine Corps in the late 80's early 90's) any woman who didnt follow regulations reflected badly on the military and made every woman who served look unprofessional. We are who we are and we all bring our experiences with us in our judgements.I'm sure the writers knew that. She didnt realize what she was supporting until she felt invisible and degraded and sometimes thats what it takes...CONTINUED -- mkim the look on Harms face was "sorry, but youre supporting this, right?", 19:41:41 02/20/15 Fri

Had my moments with Mac in that season and the seasons following but watching the show from Season One until that point, it was a learning experience, pure and simple, they both had them and I loved their characters all the more when the lesson had been learned.


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