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04-25-2016, 07:06 PM
http://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/culture/karen-townsend/2016/04/25/irony-alert-good-wife-touts-new-feminism-and-huma-abedin
By Karen Townsend | April 25, 2016 | 1:24 AM EDT
Alicia (Juliana Margulies) throws a party for Peter’s mother and her fiancé in “Party,” (http://forums.previously.tv/topic/42387-s07e20-party/?view=getnewpost) CBS’s The Good Wife’s latest episode. From the wrong flowers arriving – funeral arrangements instead of the ones she ordered – to a cake personalized with “Rest in Peace,” Alicia can’t catch a break. Even the joyous return of son Zach (Graham Phillips) turns bad.
Zach, now living away at college, returns for his grandmother’s celebration with new girlfriend, Hannah (Taylor Rose). Along the way, their engagement is announced. Surprise! For good measure, Hannah is older. She’s a 23-year-old senior about to graduate and take a job in Paris. Every mother’s dream for her son in his first year of college. Not.
In true suck-up mode, Hannah lets Alicia know that she thinks it’s great that Alicia stayed married to Peter through the difficulties faced by the couple. Why, it’s the new feminism! Women should just do what they want and consequences be damned. The best part? The irony of Hannah’s inclusion of Huma Abedin’s name is a reference of the new feminism of keeping a marriage together – standing by her man. The irony is lost on young liberal Hannah that Abedin, married to the disgraced former Congressman Anthony Weiner, works for Hillary Clinton. Clinton once remarked with a straight face that she was no Tammy Wynette “Stand By Your Man” kind of woman when her husband was running for president.
By Karen Townsend | April 25, 2016 | 1:24 AM EDT
Alicia (Juliana Margulies) throws a party for Peter’s mother and her fiancé in “Party,” (http://forums.previously.tv/topic/42387-s07e20-party/?view=getnewpost) CBS’s The Good Wife’s latest episode. From the wrong flowers arriving – funeral arrangements instead of the ones she ordered – to a cake personalized with “Rest in Peace,” Alicia can’t catch a break. Even the joyous return of son Zach (Graham Phillips) turns bad.
Zach, now living away at college, returns for his grandmother’s celebration with new girlfriend, Hannah (Taylor Rose). Along the way, their engagement is announced. Surprise! For good measure, Hannah is older. She’s a 23-year-old senior about to graduate and take a job in Paris. Every mother’s dream for her son in his first year of college. Not.
In true suck-up mode, Hannah lets Alicia know that she thinks it’s great that Alicia stayed married to Peter through the difficulties faced by the couple. Why, it’s the new feminism! Women should just do what they want and consequences be damned. The best part? The irony of Hannah’s inclusion of Huma Abedin’s name is a reference of the new feminism of keeping a marriage together – standing by her man. The irony is lost on young liberal Hannah that Abedin, married to the disgraced former Congressman Anthony Weiner, works for Hillary Clinton. Clinton once remarked with a straight face that she was no Tammy Wynette “Stand By Your Man” kind of woman when her husband was running for president.