From my post at gaytvblog.com:
Last night was the last "Gossip Girl" for quite a while because of the writer's strike, and it was a doozy. If you didn't watch, it was all about how harshly young women are judged when it comes to sex. You know...the double standard that if a guy sleeps around in high school (or an Upper East Side prep school, as the case may be) he's a stud, but if a woman beds more than one guy she's a whore.
Life is full of those unfair double standards really. And if I were to get into them, say talk about how severely a certain female candidate for president is being criticized while some of her other male opponents seem to be treated with kid gloves...well it wouldn't be pretty. And I would get angry. So let's move on to say that Blair, Queen "B" on "Gossip Girl", had to give up her throne because the whole school found out she slept with two guys in one week. Oh the shame! The shame...yawn.
More perplexing to me is one of the conceits of the show as a whole--that all of these prep school kids are getting the latest, most up-to-date scandal sheets delivered to their cell phones and PDA's from the same site. Like it's a must read feed for their zip code. Maybe that's the way school is nowadays. Still, I'm a little circumspect about the whole "high school scandal blog" thing.
But of course the moment of the episode belong to Dan Humphries, played by the adorable Penn Badgley. My heart raced as Dan told his girlfriend he loved her. And when she asked him why, he said without even a hint of sarcasm, "Because I actually like it when you interrupt me, which is often by the way." My friends, he really is a man after my own heart.
