Women’s Appreciation Week | Day Three - Favorite Women of Color : ABC Network
The leading ladies of network TV’s three highest rated dramas.
Here it is y’all!
THE GREATEST GIF EVER.
You spoiled, entitled, ungrateful little brat! You have everything handed to you on a silver platter and you squander it. You’re given the world and you can’t appreciate it because you haven’t had to work for anything! So now you’ve decided that the one thing you want is my daughter, my child, mine. What I made. What I created. You could talk about what a great lay she is and try to get a response from me all you want. But guess what? I am actually quite literally above your pay grade, which means that I know that you believe that you are in love with her, as wrong as you may be.
You. Are. A. Boy. I’m a man. I have worked for every single thing I have ever received. I have fought and scraped for every inch of ground I walk on. I was the first in my family to go to college, my daughter went to boarding school with the children of KINGS. I made that happen. You cry yourself to sleep because daddy hurt your feelings, because papa banged his secretary because it hurt to have so much money. You spoiled, entitled, ungrateful little brat. You have everything handed to you on a silver platter and you scander it. You’re given the world and you can’t appreciate it because you haven’t had to work for anything. So now you’ve decided that the one thing you want is my daughter, my child, mine. What I made. What I created.
Now I know this ghoul done lost whatever was left of his eyebrows from that read.
"You’re supposed to hate the woman. Isn’t that the standard trope? The seductress, the slut, the tramp who led your man astray. And I do. I loathe Olivia Pope. But it’s a boring sort of hate. Uninteresting, cliche. It’s hard to even get my back into it. But Fitz? I found him. I cleaned him up after that monster who raised him damaged his spirit. I am the one who told him he was someone. I am the one who cheered him on and listened to him ramble about his hopes and his dreams. I am the one who focused him. I did all the work. I did all the work and now she gets to reap the benefits? No. No, I made him. He exists because I say he exists."
There’s something my grandmother used to do whenever I’d start dating someone; I would tell her his name and then she would say ‘Oh, what part of town does he live in?’. That was her way of asking if my boyfriend was white. Oh yeah, my grandmother was an out-and-out racist. So I know what prejudice looks like.
Olivia Pope rocking Rubin Singer dress in More Cattle Less Bull.
More Wine?
Twice as good.
How many times have I told you, you have to be what?
Black folks everywhere were like “Yuuuuup” *single thug tear*
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Yesterday, Vulture’s Margaret Lyons admitted it: She isn’t rooting for Olivia and Fitz to get back together on Scandal. (“She rigged an election to get him [into the White House]; he’s cheating on his wife to be with her. And they’re terrible for each other.” Good points.) At last night’s season-three premiere party hosted by Saks Fifth Avenue, we asked the Scandal cast to weigh in. Turns out, they’re not really shipping the couple either. If anything, they’re rooting for Olivia and Jake (played by Scott Foley) to be together. Here’s what they had to say:
Guillermo Diaz (Huck): “You know, I was in the beginning, but now I’m kind of enjoying the relationship with Jake — there’s like a different, more grounded, sort of sexier energy with those two. So now I’m kind of more Team Jake. Which is funny.” Katie Lowes (Quinn Perkins): “Is this bad to say? I think I’m Team Jake. I, as a watcher of television, always go for the underdog, like I just always go for the person people don’t expect. Maybe it’s because I’m sort of really traditional and boring, so I like to pick something different. I’m like, ‘How much can Olivia put up with?’” Darby Stanchfield (Abby Whelan): “I change my mind almost every episode, sometimes within a scene. At the baby christening, when [Fitz] takes her in the closet, and then the nasty things he says to her afterwards, it’s like, ‘You deserve better, Olivia Pope, than putting up with that behavior in your life.’ At the same time, you know, they have a scene in the Rose Garden where he’s like, ‘I can’t live without you, I’m nothing without you,’ and you’re like, ‘Oh my gosh — they’re in love and they’re meant to be together.’” Joshua Malina (David Rosen): “As an actor on the show, I certainly am [Team Fitz]. I think that chemistry, that alchemy between the two of them, that will-they-won’t-they, is-it-going-to-work-out, who’s-mad-at-who, is a very important feature of the show. I think if it were over-over, or together-together, we would lose something. So I hope [creator and executive producer] Shonda [Rhimes] can play that out as long as possible. As a fan of the show? No, I don’t know that I want them together. Run the country! Get your eye on the ball!” Kerry Washington (Olivia Pope): “Oh, gosh. I’m Team Shonda, so whatever she writes, I do.”
Glad to know I’m not the only one that abandoned team olitz
I would like more of them this season