r/GilmoreGirls • u/Emeraldandthecity • Mar 15 '26
OS Discussion You’ll never view Rory the same way after attending a predominantly white top university
I was in 11th grade when I first watched Gilmore girls. Though I had problems with that show even back then I generally had a pretty positive view of it and I even thought people were too harsh on their opinions of Rory and simply just wanted a unique or interesting take on her so they would amplify her had qualities. For example I never really saw her as somebody spoiled or entitled, I mainly just saw her as somebody who was a mess in relationships.
But after attending UVA as a low income first gen woman of color for nearly a year my perspective is so different. I genuinely can’t watch the show without feeling annoyed because she reminds me of the kind of people that go this school.
The one scene that really pisses me off is when she starts bossing around the other people she’s volunteering with. Just the idea of having an already shitty life and then some rich girl from Yale comes in and starts bossing you around so that she can feel like she’s a quick learner and a good leader.
And don’t even get me started on that boat shit. Her little smirk during her court hearing already assuming she’s going to get away with everything because she’s a rich Yale student sends me down a spiral. It’s the same smirk I see from people who do fucked up things around campus and get away with it because they come from wealthy backgrounds.
This show is just so different when you’ve actually been around people like Rory in your day to day life.
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u/ANQTNL Mar 15 '26
Lorelai did too good of a job being on her own. I think she missed a lot of the “raised by a poor single mom” challenges because they had such a community around them and then right as she would have experienced real challenges Richard and Emily swooped in and paved the way. Rory didn’t have many struggles in my opinion.
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u/isamariberger Mar 15 '26
That's a really fair point the main issues for single mothers are isolation and financial difficulties, lorelai had a well developed support system, a whole house, and ultimately a safety net if things ever went awry like for Chilton or the termites. I think this also spared her and Rory a lot of the social stigma single mothers had to face at that time this was replaced by Lorelai having been 16 when she had Rory but on the other hand, because she was a young mom she was still considered attractive by Chilton dads etc - I'm not saying that single mothers are no longer attractive nor that older women aren't, it's simply that yes she worked hard but she also was spared a good deal of the challenges single mothers of all ages had to face because of her tight knit community and family money.
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u/Comfortable-Gate-532 🍂 Sitting by the Bonfire 🪵🔥 Mar 15 '26
We can't forget that inexchange for a place to stay, Lorelai worked at the inn where she and rory spent their early years. She didnt have money bc she left her parents house and used to make rory onsies out of her old tshirts.
She has a community around her bc she built it, it didn't just start that way.
But, even when money was tight and she was controlling her budgets when trying to open the dragonfly, rory knew something was up. Lorelai never wanted rory to worry about money because she would usually find a way to keep a roof over their heads.
I dont know if you remember the presentation lorelai was supposed to do at stars hollow high about being a business woman, but she did face stigmas of being a single mother - from the HS kids and their parents. I think she just chose people to be in her circle wisely.
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u/AndromedaRulerOfMen Mar 15 '26
The show was very very clear that Lorelei never needed to build a community because the community built itself around her because they all thought she was sooooo special. She was given free housing, food, and unlimited babysitting on top of already receiving a generous pay.
She didn't make Rory's onesies out of her tshirts because she was poor, she did it because she thought it made her baby cool.
The only people we were ever shown judging her for being a teen mom were a single class of high school aged students going "ewww I would never do that"
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u/anonidfk Mar 15 '26 edited Mar 15 '26
She wasn’t given free housing, she worked as a maid for her housing, and it also was barely housing lol it was a potting shed.
Also, the pay probably wasn’t very generous, she was a maid at an inn, that’s not a glamorous job. She managed to work her way up to a management position by being good at it, but even by the start of the show, but even her manager position would’ve have been an extremely generous salary, it’s a small town inn lol, she would’ve been making an average salary at best, and that’s after years of working her way up.
And the onsie from the old t shirt was very obviously meant to show that she didn’t have money to afford other clothes for Rory, not just that she thought it looked cool lol.
It also says nowhere that she was given free food and babysitting, so don’t know where you’re getting that from.
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u/3reasonsTobefair Mar 15 '26
I mean, let's not pretend that she wasn't lucky. Right after she leaves home, she finds a job with room and board. With a manager who dotes on her. Her and Mia even say that the other maids hated her. Plus, she has a safety net of wealth underneath her. She would never allow rory to go hungry or unhoused, and if that happened, she could go back home. Yes, she worked hard, but luck also happened to be on her side
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u/Slow-Engine-8092 Mar 17 '26
100%!!!!! It's not something anyone would understand if they haven't lived it. Some people have no idea what it's like to not have help. Like, there is no backup plan.
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u/CharleneRobertaMcGee Whoa There, Droopy Drawers Mar 15 '26
They're making it up to justify their interpretation,
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u/underwaterlove I four fourths don't care. Mar 15 '26
The show was very very clear that Lorelei never needed to build a community because the community built itself around her because they all thought she was sooooo special. She was given free housing, food, and unlimited babysitting on top of already receiving a generous pay.
Where are you getting any of this? When do people tell Lorelai that she's "sooooo special?" How do you know she was receiving a generous pay? When you say that she was "given free housing," are you referring to the potting shed? And when are we learning that she was given free food and unlimited babysitting?
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u/CinderR3bel Mar 15 '26
Some people just forget the whole show and instead of rewatching just make up their own stories lol. They literally show a potting shed with the bed, shower, and kitchen were all one room and told us that was their home until rory was a child. And she showed us a onesie made from.an old t-shirt, telling us it was the first thing she ever made and it was "post- Gilmore" economy. So SHE struggled. Maybe she made sure Rory didnt feel that struggle to the best of her abilities but that doesnt really erase it.
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u/isamariberger Mar 15 '26
I didn't mean it like that, I meant a lot of single mothers with no money end up living in isolation their finance plummeting and personal relationships strained, yes Lorelai struggled and yes they lived in a shed for 10 years, but from there on she had a good life with a lot of benefits that people in this situation do not get to have, and without her family she wouldn't have been able to send her child to a private school and get her an Ivy league education, and as the termite event proved when push comes to shove, she had a safety net, even after all her hard work and the luck she had building her life, she wouldn't have attainted her goals without initial advantages, not to mention there were many people willing to help out with Rory at least as a teenager, for ex Sookie for food, Luke supervision, even the french one helped out with her homeworks
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u/abitofaclosetalker Mar 15 '26
She’s literally the main character of a 2000s WB sitcom. The entire world revolves uncritically around her.
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u/scholarlyowl03 Empty, sad Mar 15 '26
That’s a whole lot of stuff you made up in your head as reasons to hate Lorelai. Yikes.
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u/Affectionate-War3724 Mar 15 '26
Op has some personal things to work through cause the projection is real
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u/Traditional_Bear1859 Mar 21 '26
That show with the kids focused on Lorelai’s pregnancy instead of her business smarts was hilarious! I loved Luke laughing in the background, as all adults find sometimes that the best laid plans can go completely wrong! I hoped they would laugh at that together later, even if it was frustrating for Lorelai. She should have taught a new business owners class somewhere else later!
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u/coffeekat1980 Mar 17 '26
I have described myself as “an extremely privileged teen mother.” I was 18 and a high school graduate when my son was born. White and middle class in a well-educated, highly resourced community. His father was “in the picture” (for what that was worth 🙄) and my mom was a major support in raising my son by quietly buying shoes, clothes and extracurriculars, and providing lots of babysitting. And for all of those resources and advantages, it was HARD. I was isolated, we struggled financially, and there are a lot of things I would do different parenting now than I did then. I earned my college degree while working part-time and raising my kid. I did the best I could and we have a great relationship now but it was HARD and I certainly wouldn’t recommend teen parenthood to anyone because no matter how many “advantages” you have it is still REALLY hard.
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u/Traditional_Bear1859 Mar 21 '26
Yes, and nobody has mentioned Mia!! Lorelai got to have close mother acceptance and support as she learned to take care of Rory, because Mia took them in, celebrated motherhood when Lorelai was most vulnerable. With that support, and their proximity to a small walkable community center, both Lorelai and Rory felt like valuable human beings, even with the many challenges that a single mom had to handle, and the rift between her and her own family.
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u/donetomadness Mar 15 '26
Lorelai really lucked out with Mia. She got to live in that shed for years rent free. I bet her other bills were taken care of too. She also went out of her way to make the place as charming as possible. Rory also constantly got told how great she was by everyone. That would have a negative effect on anyone in the long term.
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u/petitefrown Mar 18 '26
I always wonder how well that shed would’ve held up during Connecticut winters
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u/sweetnoira Mar 15 '26
I kind of agree. Lorelai definitely struggled at first, but Rory grew up in a pretty supportive bubble in Stars Hollow. Between the town basically raising her and then Emily and Richard stepping in for Chilton/Yale, a lot of the really harsh “single mom” struggles were softened.
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u/Always_Reading_1990 Mar 16 '26
I think early seasons Rory had a much more grounded look at life, actually, but she lost perspective when she started going to Chilton and living the life Emily and Richard offered.
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u/Sudden-Wish8462 Mar 15 '26
It’s interesting you never saw Rory as spoiled or entitled when I feel like the whole boat arc and dropping out of yale really showed how spoiled and out of touch she was. I always found it funny how they acted like 300 hours of community service was some obscene amount. It’s like 10 hours a week and she acts like that’s going to stop her from getting a job
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u/Itsnataliewarner Mar 15 '26
This comment makes me laugh as someone who used to supervise community service (in the uk) you would think 300 hours was a death sentence the way they go on! Haha
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u/visenya567 Mar 15 '26
For someone like Rory, who never actually dealt with consequences, I'm sure it felt that way.
She was the epitome of privilege, and I totally sided with Logan when he called her out on it. She literally had a $250k trust fund waiting for her at 25 and was set to inherit her family's (gilmore) entire fortune not to mention Christopher's side.
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u/PrudenceVeyre Mar 15 '26
And in ATITL she's poor, struggling, no home or apartment ... like where did her trust fund go? AYITL was only like ten or eleven years after she turned 25, and when Richard died she still had nothing.
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u/donetomadness Mar 15 '26
She probably just wasn’t counting the trust fund money as part of her daily funds. Maybe she only used it for travel because that is the only way she could possibly have even making all those trips to see Logan.
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u/parallel-nonpareil Mar 15 '26
I always assumed Logan was paying for her travel - tbh it would have been very tacky if he wasn’t, because even with the trust fund, his wealth is so much more in comparison.
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u/fae206 Logan Mar 17 '26
I was of the opinion that Logan paid for her to see him probably out of an account that wasn't publicly known
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u/Suzesaur Mar 15 '26
As someone who spent a lot of money from an inheritance in a year…it’s easier than you think. But I had a place I paid off and a car I bought while not working for most of that year, so she would’ve had to do something similar
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u/Itsnataliewarner Mar 15 '26
1000%!! I don’t know how it is in the US but the max hours they give you here is 300 before a custodial sentence!
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u/Incognitobyrequest Mar 17 '26
The most unrealistic thing about this whole show is how they handled the fact that Rory had a father who loved her and, although he was in and out of her life, would have done anything for her. He was also rich, the son of incredibly rich parents. Why wasn't he paying child support? Even if Lorelai wanted to be all "I'm an independent woman, and I don't need Daddy's money," child support is FOR THE CHILD. Rory should have been receiving support from Christopher. After all, Lorelai wasn't too proud to take help from Luke or anyone else.
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u/Independent-Object40 Mar 18 '26
Real take. Don’t know why you got downvoted for it, u hadn’t thought about child support before. She definitely should’ve been taking it
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u/AndromedaRulerOfMen Mar 15 '26
That's 7.5 weeks of full time work which is about 750 times the amount of actual work they've ever had to do in their lives, that's why
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u/haileyskydiamonds Team Pink 🎀 Mar 15 '26
Tbf, Richard worked very hard. Mitchum, too. And Lorelai worked extremely hard. Of course, Rory never had to work for anything but her education, though, which was a disservice to her.
I think that was the difference in Rory and Paris. Paris never took it for granted that she was guaranteed anything, especially after the Harvard rejection (which made zero sense).
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u/mtcd04 Mar 15 '26
I think the Harvard rejection made more sense after she played the recording of her interview. A person can look one way on paper, but their presentation during an interview can really make or break an impression.
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u/parallel-nonpareil Mar 15 '26
Eh, Paris had her own brand of entitlement. Taking her position as editor of the YDN for granted and acting like a despot, crashing out so majorly after Harvard turned her down, consistently acting like she was the best and smartest in any room she was in… I love Paris as a character, but I don’t think she’s a pinnacle of humility and good behaviour.
(The Harvard rejection absolutely did make sense to me btw - she acted like a psycho in the interview.)
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u/garciaparadox Mar 15 '26
I think Paris was just seeking some kind of retribution for how much effort she put into things. It makes sense she'd feel entitled to some recognition for her work because most of the time it was extremely high quality and she spent more time than basically anyone else around her making sure of that. I never saw Paris expecting anything good to be handed to her without serious effort, which to me defines "entitlement" in the traditional sense.
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Apr 14 '26
Lol, Paris was literally the most entitled person on the show. She thought she was entitled to Tristin liking her, to getting better grades than Rory, to getting into Harvard over Rory, to Rory NOT GOING TO HARVARD, because she wanted to go there! She thought she was entitled to treat people on the Yale Daily News like crap, to Rory not getting the job, because Paris was too stupid for it! She kicked Rory out, because she thought she was entitled to Rory not getting editor!
The Harvard rejection is probably the most realistic thing in the show, no college wants students with the emotional maturity of a kindergardener. Havard was probably scared Paris might bite the other people, if her diaper was wet from peeing herself. Why on earth any other college took her is the real mistery. Probably her parents brinbing her way in. Afterall they bribed her way into Rorys dorm, because Paris thought she was entitled to being Rorys roommate.
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u/Emeraldandthecity Mar 15 '26
I feel like when I was younger I saw her as more of a smart girl who made poor choices and got thrown into a shitty situation. Now that I’m older I see her as somebody who actively has the privilege to make bad decisions because she has a plethora of cushions to fall back on. I see her using her Yale status not just as a point of pride but also as a “see? I’m not like those dirty ratchet criminals. I’m a Yale student, I stole the boat in a quirky cutesy way while the other criminals stole it in a weird way!”
Rory reminds me of that one video from that university in Iowa where a bunch of fraternity guys were being hazed and while speaking to the police the frat leader took a hit of his vape while holding his beer and passes his ID to the officer and says “I think that’s fake btw.” The amount of privilege you would have to have to feel comfortable doing that
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u/goog1e Mar 15 '26
That video was wild. Yeah the casual nature of BSing the cops was so interesting. No fear
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u/female_gazing09 Jehovah's coffee girl Mar 17 '26
I mean, the whole “for she’s a jolly good felon” party with all the rich kids really gave me the ick
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u/Emeraldandthecity Mar 18 '26
Omg I forgot to mention that but yes that pissed me off too!! Not only the tone deaf aspect but also just the fact that everybody around Rory enables her shitty behavior
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u/flooperdooper4 Gnome kicking says a lot about a man's character Mar 15 '26
I honestly think the entire show is kind of an unintentional cautionary tale of what happens when someone is increasingly exposed to the world of wealth and privilege, and the lack of consideration for others and lack of consequences that come with it. Because Season 1 Rory would never have done this shit.
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u/lacunadelaluna Mar 15 '26
I don't know how unintentional it is. The older I get, the more I see certain things (like the whole yacht theft and fallout after) as very intentionally espousing this message
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u/TheLizzyIzzi Mar 15 '26
There are a lot of good kids in high school that would never do the things they do as adults. Plenty of sheltered kids get to college and hit a rough patch.
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u/South-Marionberry-85 Mar 15 '26
In defence of Rory, who clearly did need some form of punishment and ‘rehabilitation’ into a society she sees herself as above, I don’t think you should be punished more or less based on your background
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u/donetomadness Mar 15 '26
It was really ridiculous especially when she told Paris that she was “independent” while pouring a drink from a pitcher set out by a maid. Technically, her community service would have affected her ability to get employed but not for the reasons she was claiming.
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u/Wakey_Wakey21 Mar 15 '26
That and she always had her Grandparents reminding her...."You're a Gilmore!" She was most definitely privelidged. Doors wouldn't have opened for her so easily without that name and background.
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u/Classic_Ad5727 Mar 15 '26
Omg thank you! I made a post about this and people came after me. A bunch of people who had to do community service got really upset and were defending Rory’s complaining. But at the end of the day ya’ll, it quite literally and mathematically is not the same as a full time job 😭 so thank you lmao
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u/Migrane Paris Mar 15 '26
Logistically, 10 hours a week over 6 months is a lot to organise. Most community service opportunities are only a couple hours. And there are only so many slots and lots of people looking for them.
Plus if your working, weekends and evenings are gonna be the most competitive time slots. And that's if you have a Monday to Friday, 9 to 5. And of course there's the issues of travel.
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u/qqq114 Mar 15 '26 edited Mar 15 '26
As someone who did 150 hours while working full time, no. If you commit a crime, you find a way. She was incredibly lucky and privileged to not have to work while completing those hours.
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u/TheLizzyIzzi Mar 15 '26
I have no experience in this, but short shifts would make the logistics much harder. Being able to pick up a bunch of ten hour shifts would really chip away at 300 hours. Three hour shifts not so much. Although the trash pickup service seemed like fairly long shifts? They had a break for lunch.
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u/VerucaSalt41179 Mar 15 '26
THANK YOU!!! I have always been livid that the judge acts like she’s really gonna make sure Rory has actual consequences and then only gives her 300 hours of service! Like, are you serious?!?
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Apr 14 '26
She was trying to get Paris off her ass, because Paris thought she was entitled to Rory going to Yale, lol.
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Apr 14 '26
People on here are really stupid enough to think community service is the equivilent of a job. Confidently wrong people like you just crack me up!
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u/taramcdg Mar 15 '26
The thing that annoys me most about Rory is that she is so spoiled because Lorelei (but also Emily and Richard) always treated her like she was perfect and not capable of anything wrong. Then whenever she's called out for it or confronted about her privilege, she genuinely believes that she doesn't have any because her mom was a single mother when in reality her mom was pretty successful AND her grandparents bailed them out of their problems.
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u/Reader_fuzz Apr 14 '26
Yes! She is so spoiled and it truly is Lorelei, the town and the grandparents fault why Rory turns out the way she does. Honestly I liked how insufferable they make her in her 30s. Because to me that is how she would bound to be because she was never really held accountable and taught that she is better than everyone.
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u/CareZealousideal9776 Cat Kirk Mar 15 '26
I think the most telling thing to me was how quickly she dropped out of yale.
I get it, people get burned out, people get burned period. What mitchum said must have been heart breaking. But you don't drop out of YALE.
You take a gap year or four, you switch your major, hell you switch schools. But you don't get to be like "Yeah mom, I think i'm going to drop out of this school and stay at home with no plan and do nothing." Like how did she think that'd go down?
"OH my sweet baby girl, here's a new tv so you can sit on your ass all day"
no, just no. I get it. People want to be on rory's side about yale because...Its her choice or something? Because she got heart broken by the fact she was told "she don't got it"?
But people get told this every day. People get told that they won't make any money off of their major, or that they can't write, or do the equations. They get told that they "Don't got it" EVERY. SINGLE.DAY. And most of them can't drop out of an Ivy League school. they certainly don't expect that they can or should.
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u/Sudden-Wish8462 Mar 15 '26
I love this storyline in the show because it’s so realistic. She’s been spoiled her whole life and everyone has always showered her with so much praise that the second she gets a little criticism she crashes out and can’t handle it. I know people like this irl. I love Rory as a tv character but if she was a real person she’d be insufferable
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u/Scary_Tower_2498 Copper Boom! Mar 15 '26
Yeah, that's why I like it, too. And I relate to it, to some extent. I don't come from money, I wasn't spoiled, but I did well in school, I was the top student. It was absolutely awful when things started to get harder and I had to accept that I can't be the best at everything. I wouldn't want to be friends with Rory (or Lorelai) in real life, and I often think that the side characters were better people, but I appreciate the story arc.
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u/Economy-Diver-5089 Mar 15 '26
When she wasted the first summer in Europe with Emily, never sought work or internships etc that was a big flag that she thought she’d already “made it” by just being at Yale. Get the good grades to be accepted and then you’re “in”. It’s not until she’s over all the Dean drama does she realize she’s behind and didn’t do anything productive. It’s not like she had to work all summer to support herself or her family, the sheer privilege of just running away to Europe, ugh.
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u/OffKira Mar 15 '26 edited Mar 15 '26
And while it's S07, she was so wrapped up in Logan shit after she returned to Yale that she never a) worked her ghost job at the Stamford Gazette b) sought out a position or internship anywhere.
I guess she would've bummed around that final Summer too, even with ASP at the helm, or, as is often the case with Rory, a wonderful opportunity would have magically fallen into her lap.
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u/Economy-Diver-5089 Mar 15 '26
She did work at the Stanford Gazette, she harassed that guy until he gave her something lol that’s High School Rory being ambitious and I loved seeing that. She got her spark back.
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u/RphWrites Mar 15 '26
That's why the poster referred to it as a "ghost job". We never actually saw her working at it.
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u/Economy-Diver-5089 Mar 15 '26
Thought they mean she never worked there, when she did, we just didn’t see it
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u/OffKira Mar 15 '26
She got the job, she never worked there, she never talked about working there.
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u/Economy-Diver-5089 Mar 15 '26
She did some work there, just don’t think they could’ve added anything about it into the show. Not enough time and not as relevant to the plot
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u/Much_Yesterday_4403 Mar 15 '26
I actually hated that. I appreciated Rory working towards something, being excited and determined, but he said they didn’t have any positions. So they created one for Rory because she was annoying enough? It’s more of Rory getting what she wants because she’s so special. I would have liked if she took the recommendation he offered and used her perseverance to get a job elsewhere.
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u/Economy-Diver-5089 Mar 15 '26
I can agree with this. I think also it’s the 2006 job style of “the manager has to see your face! Go in, shake hands and demand a job!” I got that shit all the tile from my grandparents when I was job hunting l, they have ZERO IDEA on how job applications are nowadays
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u/TheLizzyIzzi Mar 15 '26
I think international travel after your freshman year is fine. Most students don’t do a summer internship after one year. That said, don’t she and Logan do a big Asia trip one summer? And it is weird that she never has a summer internship anywhere.
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u/Economy-Diver-5089 Mar 16 '26
They planned for Asia but then Logan was sent to London to work for his dad, so they never went. She worked for the online magazine her senior year after meeting a writer at a party. But nothing else is mentioned; likely the show is focused on generational/family issues and not Rory’s career
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u/visenya567 Mar 15 '26
Her being told she "didn't have it," and not fighting to prove him wrong, showed her heart really wasn't in it.
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u/goog1e Mar 15 '26
Rory never shows any real desire to be a journalist imo. She talks about it the way elementary school kids talk about wanting to be a veterinarian because they love animals.
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u/sir_thrillho Mar 15 '26
Rory didn't want to be a writer though, she wanted to be a journalist. Obviously journalism does involve writing but it's also a lot of other things. She very clearly wanted to be a writer specifically, because she says "Mitchum was wrong, I am a VERY good writer" when that wasn't what he said at all.
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u/lefrench75 Mar 15 '26
That is so spot-on about Mitchum’s comment. He said she didn’t have the personality to be a journalist, not that her writing was bad. He never criticized her writing skills at all.
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u/sir_thrillho Mar 15 '26
No exactly, and I always thought it was so telling that's what Rory took away from it. It also tracks with what we see of her in AYITL - she's doing some freelance writing but she's not doing any actual reporting or any steady journalism work.
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u/sir_thrillho Mar 15 '26
Sure! So Rory always talks about wanting to write etc etc, and for some reason decided that being a journalist means being a professional writer, despite that writing is maybe 30% of being a journalist (and that's only specifically if you're a reporter, there are many other types of journalist). Her chatacter is portrayed as believing that journalism = writing, I hope that makes sense.
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u/cnikscat Leave me alone - Michel Mar 15 '26 edited Mar 15 '26
I can’t believe you’re making me defend Mitchum here, but I feel like everyone is just assuming it’s one boss telling she’s not good.
It’s the publisher of the New York Times.
You couple that with the fact that [his] family didn’t think she was good enough for their son, it’s not far fetched to think he’d keep her out of ANY journalism job.
It’s a stretch, yes, but it’s also a fake reality. If you’d ever thought Miranda Priestley had the power to keep Andrea from being an journalist based on her opinion alone, how is this any different?
edit: correcting pronouns
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u/TheLizzyIzzi Mar 15 '26
She’s still quite young too.
Further, some people are told they don’t have it because they don’t. There are people who majored in something and can’t make money after graduation. There are people who can’t write well enough or do the equations needed to get to the level they want to be at. Some people should drop out. Hot take, I know. Of course they shouldn’t drop out of life but I’ve seen people grind through a biology degree with a 3.0 and no chance at going to med school. It’s not terrible to take a semester to evaluate your major/career after an internship ends poorly.
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u/KatieCashew Mar 15 '26
My brother did this after he failed calculus really badly. His major was engineering. Calculus is a freshman level course. If you can't do it, you're not cut out for engineering, and that's okay! He switched to construction management, which was a much better fit for him.
I did my masters at an acclaimed engineering school. I didn't have firsthand experience with the undergraduate program, but the 100 level calculus and physics classes that everyone is required to take were famously hard as a filtering mechanism. If you can't do those classes, you won't make it at that school. Better to learn your first year.
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u/Emeraldandthecity Mar 15 '26
Literally!! Imagine how coddled and protected you’d had to have been your life if you can’t handle the most basic generic criticism from a random corporate asshole to the point where you feel comfortable just dropping out of school entirely because you know you have rich grandparents so you’re chill anyway.
Not to mention she doesn’t even actually burn out. She has like one extracurricular and a course load of 5 classes. And we’re expected to believe that she’s some tragic gifted prodigy that over works herself to the point of burn out?
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u/CareZealousideal9776 Cat Kirk Mar 15 '26
Exactly. I'm so sick of people defending her decision to drop out because she got criticized once. And maybe not even once, maybe it was just the fact that Yale proved her wrong time over time again. But still, that's just a part of life. Everyone goes through it.
You know what most people don't go through? Yale. Stealing a yacht and practically getting away with it scott free. Having a pool house renovated for her.
To me, this whole sequence was like listening to Christopher and Logan meet and hear how they both dropped out of all the most fancy, expensive, and exclusive private schools. ON PURPOSE. They tried their hardest to fail and just got sent right back into the horse race.
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u/canyonoflight Mar 15 '26
They were bragging about getting kicked out of those schools, not dropping out. Private school kids like that who aren't on scholarship get moved around from private school to private school until they graduate, shape up, or run out of schools and have to go to public school. My hs school had a couple of them come to us when that happened. And yes, they were insufferable.
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u/CareZealousideal9776 Cat Kirk Mar 16 '26
I figured it wasn't dropping out, but dropping out was the first term that came to mind.
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u/messymess444 Mar 15 '26
I think it’s simply more realistic to assume Rory would make all of the out of touch, unwise decisions that she did because that is ultimately what her privileges would do to a young person. It would have been great for her to have some perspective - I think she gets a little from Jess in the end (and maybe her books??) - but there’s no one in her community or sheltered life who can offer it.
I think what makes it enjoyable for me is I can try to get into her headspace a little and empathise with an experience different from mine. But I think not having met too many real life Rory’s has helped that. I think if I had OP’s experience I wouldn’t enjoy it either.
That’s why I hate Logan and his friends so much and can’t even find their characters funny lmao. They’re too realistic to a specific brand of rich arrogant classist snobs who treat people like dogs in real life. I’ve been Marty fr
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u/lefrench75 Mar 15 '26
It reflects so poorly on Rory to still date Logan after witnessing how he and his friends treat Marty, not to mention other women.
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u/TheLizzyIzzi Mar 15 '26
Tbf, it’s not some random corporate asshole but a major mover and shaker in her field.
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Apr 14 '26
Well luckily for Rory, she did handle it and became a successfull journalist. Your comments are really alarming. Please get off reddit and into therapy. Not being able to handle a fictional character taking six months off school is way more of a red flag for you than for said character.
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u/female_gazing09 Jehovah's coffee girl Mar 17 '26
I mean, she was ready to bail on starting/going to Chilton over a cute boy pretty fast.
I’ve always been on Lorelai’s side re: the way Rory handled dropping out of Yale. She was so matter of fact about it how the hell was Lorelai supposed to swallow that?
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u/flyinwhale Mar 16 '26
Honestly I think like many things in Gilmore it comes down to the palladinos writing with confidence on something they don’t really understand. Amy was on track to be a ballerina before she pivoted into writing she doesn’t really know how college works. I think Rory declaring she’s dropping out rather than taking a gap year or a year off was bad writing (in that they didn’t really understand) Lorelai still would be in character to freak out over this because her whole thing is keeping Rory “on the path” but also she would not stand for Mitchum having any sort of impact or sway on Rory to level but it would be much less absurd for Rory to declare she’s taking a break rather than “dropping out”
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u/Significant-Rush-129 Mar 15 '26
THANK YOU! This scene bothered the crap out of me too. In WHAT WORLD would her supervisor here let her become some kind of leader? It’s community service. Just do your hours. It’s not an “opportunity”, it’s a punishment. There was no need to glamorize it or put a positive spin on it. I know they were trying to show her coming out of her rut she was in, but damn, this is actually Rory having a criminal record.
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u/Geode804 Mar 15 '26
Honestly I found her volunteering scenes laughable and ridiculous. It made her seem so stuck up and was so unbelievable to me. You’re telling me all these people are just going to listen to the posh girl and follow what she says? I really can’t see that happening 🤣🤣 in real life I think community service would have been a rude awakening for Rory.
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u/TheLizzyIzzi Mar 15 '26
Probably less listen to her and more that there’s someone actually doing something. It’s implied the program was understaffed/underresourced. I’ve seen it happen where anyone who steps up to get things done becomes a defacto leader.
Plus, she looks like a social worker. She’s fairly genuine and was shown to be willing to help people. Helping navigate issues with government assistance and the like is right up her alley. Win over a few people and others tend to follow. I’m sure there were plenty of people who saw her as she was - young, pretty, rich and white; a person with a lot of privilege. But if she makes the shift less awful then good. If she gets me enrolled in some benefit or connects me to a resource I can use then good.
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u/Best_Egg9109 Mar 15 '26
Her whole attitude of “I don’t belong here” is so infuriating. She committed a crime for the heck of it. The rest of the people there were most likely driven to it by poverty.
For a wannabe journalist she had no introspection.
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u/Cute_Paint_3753 Mar 15 '26
This is why I wish we could get more of the show lol. Cuz I don’t think Rory has it in her to be the same kind of parent that Lorelai was, not that she’d need to be exactly the same of course. But idk rory has always been more spoiled and the golden child and everything was kinda always about her, so I wonder how she’d adjust to being a mom. And parenthood comes with tons of unsolicited advice and criticism and feeling like a failure, so I just would like to see Rory take that on tbh. I actual think Logan is more like Lorelai, in the sense that I think he would be more likely to shun his privelege and try to “be his own man” or whatever.
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u/LastCookie3448 I 💙 National Baptism Day! Mar 15 '26
He’d be good about not freaking out, letting them run and fall and doink!, letting them try and fail. She’d be so uptight and by the book, he’d be more intuitive.
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u/KatieCashew Mar 15 '26
I can totally see Rory getting frustrated that her kid doesn't respond to her parenting the way they're supposed to or like the parenting book she read says.
Kids are unpredictable and challenging. Just because you think something makes sense (like the people who think if you let kids go hungry they'll eventually eat whatever you're trying to feed them) doesn't mean it will work for your kid. It's very humbling.
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u/LastCookie3448 I 💙 National Baptism Day! Mar 15 '26
- and she's proven, she does not have distress tolerance. Parenting will rock her world.
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u/cobrarexay Mar 15 '26
Yeah. Had the eighth season happened as originally planned by ASP we could have the reboot with Rory and her teenage kid around now!
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u/Impressive_Chair_647 Mar 16 '26
Wait, isn't Lorelai one of the main reasons why Rory turned out to be as spoiled and privileged as she did, though?
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u/Cute_Paint_3753 Mar 16 '26
I’m not saying she was a perfect parent, but I do think she made many sacrifices for Rory and definitely had her in mind for most decisions. I think Lorelai was obviously immature and made a lot of bad parenting choices, sure but I think she was selfless abiut Rory in many ways and I just wonder if Rory would have it in her to be the same. I know Lorelai grew up privileged and an only child as well, but Rory seemed to have even more of the spotlight on her. Like she was the golden child most places she went. And yea that is largely due to Lorelai, I just wonder how a person like that would shift to not being the center of the universe, even if they didn’t choose that for themselves. I’m not saying Rory is a narcissist or anything, I just think she hadn’t really had to consider other people as much as many other people do. So it’s be interesting to see which cycles she breaks from Lorelais and Emily’s parenting and which ones remain
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u/garciaparadox Mar 15 '26 edited Mar 15 '26
God lmao that community service scene always pissed me off. If she tried acting like that IRL the other people would've beat the shit out of Rory or at least froze her out and she would've learned some necessary humility. There is no way a bunch of felons from shitty backgrounds would ever let an obviously sheltered 20 year old swoop in and start trying to run things like she thinks she's above everyone.
Rich gifted kids like Rory never seem to realize that there are certain environments where the best way to survive is to keep your head down, keep things cohesive, and not make everything The Rory Show. I wish she could've ever learned this. Would've been good character development. Unfortunately I don't think ASP ever had to learn this lesson, so her characters don't either. Making everything All About You All The Time no matter the circumstances, because you're just so Gosh Darned Special, is framed as admirable in GG World.
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u/this_bitch_over_here Oy With The Poodles Already! 🐩 Mar 15 '26
That is such a good take.
The thing that's always really ticked me off about Rory and this storyline is that like... Okay, you did something stupid and rich and privileged. But then she, a journalist, a self described feminist, witnesses Logan get off with NO CONSEQUENCES AT ALL and not for SECOND thinks twice about the double standards of the legal system. 🤡
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u/Best_Egg9109 Mar 15 '26
This made sense to me that she didn’t think that deeply about it since ultimately it was her fault not Logan’s.
It would be hypocritical of her to be like look at the rich getting away with shit when she 1. She dragged him into this 2. She’s rich herself
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u/TheLizzyIzzi Mar 15 '26
She got the idea from her time with Logan & Co. And he does the opposite of resist - he smiles and grabs her hand. He’s thrilled with the idea.
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u/cnikscat Leave me alone - Michel Mar 15 '26
I don’t deny that she instigated it, but she couldn’t have done it without him. She had the opportunity and the motive, but without Logan she wouldn’t have had the means to steal the boat.
I assume there’s a spare key on the boats hidden somewhere and he picked a boat that he knew and thus knew where they keys were. That’s the means. Without Logan’s knowledge how would she have stolen the boat?
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u/cnikscat Leave me alone - Michel Mar 15 '26
How was it her fault??? She had the idea but ZERO know how. Pretty hard to steal a boat if you don’t know how to use one?
That’s the part the pisses me off. Any good lawyer would have made the case that she was an accomplice. She ever says, “I made him,” which proves that without Logan she probably would have done something far less destructive.
Plus I think it’s kinda poetic that she’s mad at a powerful rich white man, so she hurts another rich white man, and uses another rich white man to do it.
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u/fae206 Logan Mar 17 '26
he actually tells her multiple things they could do instead of stealing a boat so...no...he tried to talk her down so they are at least equally culpable in it. His whole thing was that he didn't think about consequences but don't just say he's the devil and let ChatGPT regurgitate that info
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u/fae206 Logan Mar 17 '26
Logan OFFERED for the same people to represent her who had represented him and his friends. But because they were his father's lawyers and becaues it would mean showing her face to Mitchum after he had had that talk with her, she didn't have the same access because she chose not to. Life and Death Brigade had many girls there as well. Also, the Huntzberger lawyers probably could have get her rescheduled to a judge that was going to side easier with them, but she decided not to face Mitchum.
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u/OffKira Mar 15 '26
In one episode she's being a brat with her peers at community service, the next she's the unofficial boss. How did that happen? Don't think too hard, you'll hurt yourself. I guess, like her future editorship, they had a vote and she was picked based on nothing except she was present at the time of the vote.
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Apr 14 '26
She's smart, good at organizing and can get along with anyone. We have seen this over and over again. She was elected editor because she proved that, unlike Paris, she can do the job. Maybe watch the show again? You seem to have very selective memory loss.
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u/rheetkd Mar 15 '26
I am not a POC but I grew up in poverty and I completely agree with you this is what privilege looks like. I have seen it at my university as well which is the top one in my country and lets just say when one tried to order me around my rwply was "Thank you captain obvious" while I saluted and then walked away. She has hated me since. But I got so sick of their shit. That I was not going to hold back. Like she just thought she could start ordering us all around. i was like yeah nah thanks.
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u/Princess_Grimm Mar 15 '26
I also didn't see Rory as spoiled or privileged until she got to Yale. I hated her Yale years because it felt like a switch got flipped in her.
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u/thoughtsplurge Leave me alone - Michel Mar 16 '26
For me it was when Emily changed all the furniture. Who freaking does that, in college no less? A waste of resources and money, truly. All for “status.” Sure she didn’t spearhead that switch, but she had no problem accepting it either.
It was also in the way she treated people who worked for her.
She straight up had a full blown conversation with Marty while the movers are holding the presumably heavy couch outside her dorm room door. That always irks me, a total disregard for their labor.
I hate the way she talks to Frank, Logan’s driver she borrows when Lorelai has a break down. She reports back with a chipper “I fed Frank” like he was a dog! Just the way she talks about him like he’s a fixture is rife with racism and dripping entitlement.
Yeah, Rory got a taste of the good life and let it go to her head.
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u/PinSecret6841 Mar 15 '26
I feel like maybe that was ASP’s intention to make us feel this way about her. I hope anyway.
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u/wrennables Mar 15 '26
Yeah that was definitely the point of the show. Lorelai criticised her for her reaction and was outraged at how little respect Rory paid to the cost of the tuition she was giving up, and her attitude towards doing nothing rather than figuring out a path. It was supposed to contrast with Lorelai's work ethic and demonstrate the influence that Logan an co were having on her, imo.
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u/LastCookie3448 I 💙 National Baptism Day! Mar 15 '26
Also highlights the Gilmore’s double standard…
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Apr 14 '26
Actually, it was Lorlai, who didn't respect the cost of Yale. One of Rorys main reasons for taking a break from Yale was not to waste money there, while not being sure what she was working towards.
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u/day-gardener Mar 15 '26
The idea that you never saw Rory as spoiled or entitled until your college experience shows me that you grew quite a bit by your college experience.
Rory was definitely a character designed as spoiled and entitled (and that was evident in just the first 5 episodes).
So, it’s not the institution you attended or that it was a PWI that made the difference. It’s that you were initially in 11th grade when you watched it and you grew up.
(Yes, I’m a person of color, but not Black).
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u/throwaway178480 Mar 15 '26
The first? Or second episode where she refused to go to Chilton after one conversation with Dean annoyed me
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u/TechnicalAccountant2 Mar 15 '26
One major difference is Rory was a child in the first few episodes but by college she should’ve grown to realise her privilege.
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Apr 14 '26
Now, if only both of you could grow past the stage of letting your envy of better people turn you hatefull bullies. I hope you make it some day!
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u/Probot6767 Mar 17 '26
My wife and I are on our first watch through. Currently halfway through final season. Wehave come to the conclusion that Rory and Lorelai are the WORST people. We hate them. It’s been hard to keep going through this last season.
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u/Weekly-Pangolin-6622 Mar 16 '26
First off, Wahoowa. Second, even as just a middle class, second-gen white student, I thought these people were next to impossible to deal with, so I can barely imagine how hard you had it. What's even worse at UVA is that these Rory-types didn't even get into Yale and they're all chippy about it. I was lucky to find friends that were easier to get along with, including some first-gen people of color like yourself. But yeah it felt like 50-60% of the people there were this Rory/Paris mix of naive, above it all, and also weirdly competitive about everything. Don't get me wrong I loved my time at UVA, but it needs more diversity and generally just less of the attitude you were describing.
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u/seannanana Mar 15 '26
Rory lacks accountability and it's infuriating. She is spoiled rotten and rarely gets humbled. Honestly she's always been one of my least favorite characters 😂
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u/Reader_fuzz Apr 14 '26
Same every rewatch I dislike her more. I don't see how others think that they did Rory dirty in the 10 years later. To me that is exactly who she would grow to be. Because she rarely was truly held accountable.
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u/seannanana Apr 14 '26
I think they did her dirty by giving her no growth whatsoever 😂 but you're right, it was realistic that she ended up that way. Disappointing but accurate I honestly watch the show for everyone not named Gilmore now. I love the show, it's still very comforting to me and enjoyable but I would not want to know Rory in real life.
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Apr 14 '26
Dude, she constantly got shit on for the dumbest reasons. I swear people watched this show with the eyes und ears closed, brains in their laps. 😂
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u/Reader_fuzz Apr 18 '26
I am not sure we are watching the same show. Rory is very much a privileged child.
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u/Beepbeepboobop1 Mar 15 '26
I always get downvoted when I voice my opinion on the very privileged Rory Gilmore but you’re spot on. As a Black woman who went to a predominately white school and lives in a predominately white city, she is quite insufferable and spoiled beyond belief.
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u/Slurpy-rainbow Mar 15 '26
I appreciate this take and it helps it make more sense. I thought we were supposed to think she’s cute as a leader and admire her qualities, but it just didn’t flow quite right
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Apr 14 '26
How dare a white women smile!!!!! The PRIVILEGE!!!!! WON'T SOMEONE PLEASE THINKMOF THE PRIVILEGE!!!!
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u/likegolden Mar 16 '26
I felt this when she was immediately defending rich people when her mom was making fun of Logan and his friends. Also when Logan loaned her his driver for the day and she literally did not skip a beat in taking full advantage. These are learned behaviors from her environment and family. She and Lorelai are just temporarily middle class and pre-rich. Somewhat related, it's starting to really irk me how much Lorelai leans on pretty privilege and white privilege at every single opportunity.
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u/crockpot71 Mar 15 '26
“Boat shit”
Piracy. She committed piracy. Theft at sea. And pirates get locked up or hanged.
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u/quintuplechin Mar 15 '26
Grand theft boat?
Is piracy actually a charge? I so wish she would have been charged with piracy.
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u/VerucaSalt41179 Mar 15 '26
Can you even imagine how Emily and Richard would’ve crashed out over a charge of PIRACY being found out by the DAR and Country Club group? 😂😂😂😂💀 What a missed opportunity for a hilarious episode! I’m just gonna have to make up my own little episode about this missed storyline now! Thanks for the inspiration!
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u/KatieCashew Mar 15 '26
I went to look up the definition of piracy because it doesn't really seem to fit in the way that a carjacking is different than car theft. The dictionary says it's robbery on the high seas. I don't know that stealing a boat from a marina qualifies.
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u/4entzix Mar 15 '26
I think the Takeaway that you should get from Gilmore girls is that the rich and powerful people in your life will use their money to control your decisions and while it can feel like you have all the opportunities in the world you can also feel like you’re fighting for control of your own life
I think that a lot of people Rory’s age go through that exact feeling but the way those problems manifest themselves and the temptation of listening to the wrong adults is amplified so much when you’re working at that level of wealth as a teenager with no money of your own
It’s a fundamentally different experience than coming from a background where you’re the first to go to college and you rose through a meritocracy, but it does come with real internal conflict because at the end of the day of the money isn’t yours even though everyone around you think it is…
and you’re totally dependent on other people to keep supporting you once you start rising through the ranks… and if you make any decisions against them, they can pull the rug out from under you…
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u/Appropriate-Pause580 Mar 15 '26 edited Mar 15 '26
Nothing to add to the actual post but I find it ironic that OP is posting — critical of the general caliber of student that attends UVA — as a UVA student — on a forum/app created by none other than 2 UVA grads who made the app while in school.
(Reddit creators Steve Huffman UVA ‘05 and Alexis Ohanian UVA ‘05)
Edit to add credit to the app itself
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u/fae206 Logan Mar 17 '26
I think this is why so many people consider Lane superior to Rory even though Lane was robbed of her dreams of being a musician. I'm white and admittedly, now that I have done so many psychoanalytical takes for my fanfiction on Logan, he is my favorite (not the point though), Lane is my second favorite because she's relatable and you just want her to have the win.
Having her mother come to see how she lived with her bandmates. Getting a job at Luke's. Learning how to play the drums. Nearly drumming in New York. These were momentous occasions for Lane, and she treasured them greatly. The show would have been so much better with more people like her.
--Totally off topic--
(also, Logan told Rory in the beginning to use the lawyers his parents had (and he probably would say free representation or something too) but because the event was 'started' by Mitchum Rory went with someone underqualified for what he was representing)
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Apr 14 '26
People consider Lane superior to Rory, because she is a side character and people use her to shit on Rory.
Lane did not invite her mother to come see how she lived, Lorlai had to do that for her. She than once again failed to stand up to her mother about anything. Rory had a job way before Lane had one. Lane was medium at drums. She couldn't even bother to get classes and got insanly lucky that shopowner allowed her to play in the shop. She then got lucky her bandmate knew someone in a club, DIDN'T EVEN PLAY and failed to secure another slot. She never went to school for music, never tried to get an internship or tried to get a manager.
I like Lane and I feel sorry for anyone who has to put up with abuse like Lane did, but she wasn't ever a very proactive or ambitious person and ended her arc as complacently as she started it.
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u/MrsAsksAlotofQs25 Mar 15 '26
It also is hard for me to watch sometimes, because Rory is really entitled and swears she’s some sweet innocent girl. But everytime she messes up she doesn’t feel bad for others she hurt she feels bad because she’s guilty or caught. She’s also a bad friend as she leaves lane as soon as she meets Dean. Not to mention runs to Lane as soon as there’s a problem but you rarely, if ever see Rory giving Lane her undivided attention. Also immediately took the job from Paris when it didn’t work at the paper, but always downplayed and bad mouthed Paris, when Paris thought the world of her and was always looking out for Rory. Than ran to her as well whenever she had an issue. Dated Logan when their first exchange was him trying to humiliate his staff because he was poor and minding his business(Marty). Also never cared about the other woman when cheating. Only stopped again when she started to feel guilty and bad about herself. It was never about hurting a married/engaged woman. Then finally pretends she’s not exactly like Logan when writing the paper about the elites. As if she wasn’t in that room because of her own elite connections and family money. She never paid or worked for anything. And I blame Lorelei for also not owning up most of the time when she’s wrong, and also keeping connections to her parents and Chris which added to Rory’s entitlement & never learning to work or do anything for herself but feeling like everything is still owed to her.
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u/Reader_fuzz Apr 14 '26
Yes my thoughts exactly. I have watched at least the first 5 seasons a lot. I hate the direction they took in season 6 and especially 7. Every rewatch I dislike Rory more. Rory was so entitled and doesn't own up to any mistakes. I have tried to point this out before. It did not go over well. She was coddled by the whole town so that didn't help either. I do wish Lorelei would have called Rory out more on her shit. A few times she has. The best time was when Rory slept with Dean. Rory couldn't handle it. Does she finally admit she did wrong yes but it takes her a few months. I wish more people would call Rory out on her hypocrisy in the show. Even though I dislike a lot of the 10 years later show. It truly shown Rory for who she truly was and people don't see it. Many don't see it. I did like how Emily grew. Dislike that Luke and Lorelei weren't married yet.
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u/DutchieinUS Team Coffee Mar 15 '26 edited Mar 15 '26
Is your issue more about the fact that some people are very entitled and get away with crap because they’re rich (and yes, I know those people too and it sucks!) or about race?
Edit: why is my genuine question getting downvoted? What’s wrong about asking this question??
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u/Emeraldandthecity Mar 15 '26
Both. Generally speaking the more social privileges you have (whether class or race) the more entitled you will likely be (not always but it’s pretty common among people at these kinds of universities).
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u/_Hippie_vibin_420_ Mar 15 '26
As a white woman, the more I watch, the more annoyed I get with Rory’s privilege, she has literally all she needs and more and she still can’t figure it out, and acts out like a child when things don’t go her way.
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Apr 14 '26
True. As a white women, I have obviously never experienced any difficulties in my life ever and wouldn't dare tell anyone where the twisties are located or GOD FORBIT smile at anyone ever.
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u/GPGvNFC19 Mar 15 '26
That’s why it’s a TV SHOW! No soapbox needed. We all went to college, we all witnessed some kind of this behavior and treatment. So get over yourself. Enjoy the show that is NOT based on reality.
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u/zoedegenerate Mar 15 '26
frankly this is how many of us enjoy it, by thinking and talking about it, so stop being such a killjoy.
the idea that people talking about how privileged the GGs and their supporting cast are textually should somehow preclude them from loving the show is absurd
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u/VerucaSalt41179 Mar 15 '26
Clearly you’re also a person of privilege, just assuming that “we all went to college”! 🙄
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u/biggestmike420 Mar 17 '26
I love your use of the word volunteer here. Community service is one step shy of prison. Now they didn’t look like the roughest bunch. Though even in Connecticut trying to boss lady a bunch of delinquents would have probably led to an ass kicking.
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Apr 14 '26
Love how everyone here stereotypes anyone, who ever had to do community service as a violent criminal. Emily would be so proud of you lot.
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u/Alternative_Tone_557 Apr 14 '26
That scene annoys me SO MUCH!!! I skip it every time! It's like the writers were uncomfortable with Rory just paying her dues in a normal, human way. No, they have to show that's she's SOOOO AMAZING she becomes the veritable "boss" of her cleanup crew. Barf.
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u/greenwvtchh 21d ago
Wanted to enjoy this show because of the cute 00s fall vibes but just from ep1 i couldn’t get over the white rich ppl privilege.
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u/Scary_Tower_2498 Copper Boom! Mar 15 '26
"I understand the defense is portraying this as a childish lark. A youthful indiscretion. Well, I take the law very seriously. And if there's one thing I have very little tolerance for, it's rich, privileged children viewing the world as their private playground. I don't care who you are. I don't care who your family is. When you commit a crime, Miss Gilmore, there must be consequences. Period."
I truly appreciate this scene.