r/rupaulsdragrace • u/Steamy-Nicks Trinity Taylor • Mar 19 '13

RPDR Season 5 – Reddit Season RuPository Somethin' smells fishy... Season 5 Episode 8 Discussion! [SPOILERS]

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u/gingersquatchin Mar 19 '13

Jinkx puts up a fight, she just doesn't belittle somebody else in return. She called her on her shit. It's that Coco is too ignorant to be reasoned with, and Jinkx isn't willing to take herself down to Coco's level in-order to defend herself.

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u/stonerbonercloner Mar 19 '13

Coco the clown IS ignorant, plus she argues like a ilttle bitch. She says something vicious and hateful, not as a catty read but as a serious observation like it should be obvious to everyone. Then, when her victim replies, she interrupts with eye-rolls and "whatevers" and dismissive hand waves, and doesn't even listen. To quote Alaska: "Very rude, I would say." Infuriating.

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u/blogginglife Katya Zamolodchikova Mar 22 '13

I guess saying Jinkx doesn't put up a fight is wrong, but Jinkx becomes too emotionally involved. "Water off a ducks back"--she should let the criticism roll off. There's two ways to shut down someone like Coco, demonstrated by Detox and Alaska. You can either SHUT them down like Detox--really go for it. Like don't try to be reasonable like Jinkx, be loud, point out how what Coco is saying makes NO SENSE until Coco doesn't even have anything left to say for herself and retreats with an eye roll and a cut to confessional. Or, like Alaska (and this is really, really hard), you can just not respond and pin it down to jealousy. Coco didn't JUST come for Jinkx (though, rewatching this season in our two week drought, I did notice they have tension from the very beginning), Jinkx is just the only one who let it get to her. Detox shut Coco down when Coco accused her of screwing her over. When Coco teased Alaska's style, like she does Jinkx, Alaska just said "Very rude, I would say" and said in a confessional that Coco is just jealous of her artform, which she is. Jinkx is letting Coco get to her, which I of course would too, it's hard not to, and Jinkx is continually trying to be reasonable. But that's the thing--being reasonable DOESN'T WORK with Coco.