"Anne" <AnneWithAnE@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in
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> "Cory" <my_wheel_life@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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>| In article <MPG.22bee7d8da5b19b2989789@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
>| my_wheel_life@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
says...
>| > In article <lv2dnQbkhIUIcVTanZ2dnUVZ_jKdnZ2d@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
>| > mmikeda@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
says...
>| >
>| > <major snip...>
>| >
>| > > Rory, confrontation, Emily, not good at.
>| >
>| > OK, but THAT'S LORELAI and Emily, mostly, NOT RORY and Emily.
>| > I understand your point and AGREE that Rory isn't good at
>| > dealing with confrontation. However, when have RORY and
>| > Emily ever had a confrontation that was downright ugly??
>| > LORELAI and Emily... yes... THEY have had some ugly
>| > knock-down, drag-out fights, and I could understand if
>| > LORELAI was afraid to speak up, but RORY???
>| >
>| > Not so much... particularly because Emily and Rory didn't
>| > fight all that much, with the exception of when Emily or
>| > Richard meddled in Lorelai's love life (Jason Stiles, Luke).
>| >
>| > --- Cory
>|
>| And, come to think of it, Rory stood up to Emily VERY, VERY,
>| VERY well to Emily when it came to fighting FOR Lorelai about
>| Jason or Luke.
>|
>| I remember one time in particular, I forget which episode,
>| where Rory was cold toward Emily all through dinner (a dinner
>| which Lor didn't attend), and Emily called Rory on it. Rory
>| was pissed off because something happened between Lorelai and
>| Emily re: Luke (I think it was when Emily interfered in the
>| relation****p, and Luke stopped seeing Lor for a while). She
>| ended up blowing up at Emily about how she was fulfilling her
>| contract/agreement to come to dinner, but there was NOTHING in
>| said agreement about how Rory was expected to be sun****ne and
>| roses and a pleasant conversationalist and whatnot. At the end
>| of her rant, Rory said something like, “Now, we've had dessert.
>| I'll skip the ****t. Goodnight, Grandpa.”
>|
>
> I thought that Rory was annoyingly passive aggressive during
> that dinner, instead of just calmly saying what was on her mind.
THAT one I liked. Rory is actually sending a stronger message than
a more direct statement would send.
>
> Another instance, when Rory wasn't even mad, but was afraid to
> speak up: the night before starting Yale - Rory wasn't even able
> to tell Emily she'd like to leave to spend time with Lorelai the
> last night before starting school. She had to have Lorelai come
> rescue her.
Rory generally avoids confrontation with Emily, even fairly mild
confrontations (at least on her own behalf). This actually works
reasonably well for Rory most of the time. The night before
starting Yale being one of the exceptions.
--
Michael Ikeda mmikeda@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
"Telling a statistician not to use sampling is like telling an
astronomer they can't say there is a moon and stars"
Lynne Billard, past president American Statistical Association
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