* The show frequently told us that Lynette always got her own way and Tom never did, when really it was the opposite way around. Lynette gave in to his childish whims much too often, usually after he whined about being “emasculated”. Why was she portrayed as the bad guy, when he always made childish decisions and rarely thought through his schemes? Lynette was just being responsible, but she was portrayed as “controlling”.
** Except that Lynette ''is'' shown to be too controlling, not just with Tom but with many aspects of her life. A perfect example is the end of Season 1. Lynette is not happy that Tom's ex-girlfriend is working as his partner at work. Lynette insists Tom get rid of her, but Tom refuses. So, Lynette takes matters into her own hands and tries to set Tom's ex up at new firm. This, however, backfires and Tom ends up losing his own job. So that was not Tom being childish in any way. Lynette is the one who inferred and damaged his career. It's not a monolithic routine of course. Sometimes Tom is too irresponsible but Lynette at times was too overbearing. This co-dependency simply got worse in the last few seasons.
*** The above example doesn’t prove that Lynette was too controlling though. It proves that she could be controlling, which isn’t something the op denied. The point was that Lynette was portrayed as someone who always got her own way, typically due to controlling situations. The problem is - the opposite was actually true. Tom was the one who typically got his own way, from quitting his job and forcing Lynette back into work, to throwing their life savings into a restaurant he couldn’t even run properly (complaining when Lynette had the nerve to step in and get a license to sell alcohol since he couldn’t), to Lynette putting up with the horrible woman he had a child with, to Lynette then having to put up with his horrible abusive daughter, to Tom going back to college - Tom got his own way a LOT for someone who was portrayed as a poor little controlled husband, who was ruled by his horrible wife.
*** Not always, but yes, Lynette's way had to always the *right* way. Tom did not quit his job. He LOST his job. Twice in fact. And both times were due to Lynette's actions. Tom then simply wanted to get back at her by staying at home and letting her go back to work. Even when Lynette does try to support him, she ends up commandeering things herself to make sure they work out, which is a common trait of a control freak. They don't trust anyone else to do it. And when she does, she is quick to take authority over Tom. This is what she does with the restaurant, despite not even wanting to do it. Tom fears Lynette gives him no say in things. Another perfect example is from Season 1. Tom invited his boss over to dinner to go over some new ad ideas. When Tom starts talking about his idea, Lynette(who is not working at this stage) butts in and starts giving her own ideas to use, impressing Tom's boss and basically stealing Tom's presentation. When Tom later complains to Lynette about doing this, she just retorts that Tom should have ''better ideas''. That all sounds very emasculating.
*** Lynette had to take over at the restaurant, because Tom had NO idea how to run one and had insisted on spending their life savings to try. Had she not helped, they would’ve gone under within a month. How is that controlling? As for that “perfect example”, you didn’t quite tell the full story. Lynette was just having fun and casually added 1 idea, from the perspective of a mother, since that’s the idea Tom had come up with. She wasn’t trying to take over or butt in. Tom responded by basically telling her she was meant to be quiet and serve them all food. If she was “emasculating” for snapping back at him after he insulted her, what was Tom for speaking to her like she was to be a subservient housewife, with no ideas of her own? It seems to me that people think Tom was perfectly justified to act however he pleased and if Lynette ever stood up to him or tried to help, she was “emasculating” and “controlling”. Tom got his way 90% of the time, yet still had the nerve to say Lynette always got her way.
*** Lynette took over the restaurant because Tom threw out his back and had to stay bed ridden for a while. Tom then feared she was basically just commander the whole thing from him when he was in an infirmed state. And Lynette only allowed Tom to do the restaurant in the first place out of guilt for getting him FIRED. In the above example, Lynette was doing far more than being casual. She took over the conversation for herself because she loves advertising as well. Tom was not acting as he pleased. He was literally just trying to do his JOB and then Lynette took it over from him. He didn't even finish his presentation and said nothing as Lynette made him feel inferior. That is equally as bad as Tom did that to Lynette. And when he does get annoyed for doing it, she says he should have had better ideas, basically saying that Tom is bad his own job. That is ''not'' Lynette standing up for herself, that is Lynette putting Tom down by insulting him. Tom did not really get away with anything because Lynette would try to manipulate things behind back. Like when she asked his boss ''not'' to give him a promotion which then later lead to Tom getting fired. At best Tom only got permission to do things after Lynette screwed things up and no longer had a high ground to argue back. When Tom decides to be stay a home dad, Lynette can't refuse because she ruined Tom's job for him.


* Bree is said multiple times throughout the series to not be a natural redhead and "you'll never guess what her natural hair color is", etc., yet in a flashback to her childhood, she is seen with red hair. Is this an error, or has she been dyeing her since she was very young?
** Maybe she went prematurely grey?
* So, can anyone tell me why this one neighborhood just ''happens'' to be full of stay at home moms, house wives, and women in general that just ''happen'' to look like drop dead sexy super models?
** Most TV dramas do this. Everyone on the ''Series/{{House}}'' cast could be a model, male or female.
*** Taub? Really?
* Gabrielle became pregnant with Juanita either some time after or before the fourth season finale, therefore making her pregnant in 2008, and giving birth sometime around early 2009. The show then skips ahead five years to 2013, making Juanita four. Now we're in the seventh season in 2015, which would make Juanita six...and yet everyone is saying she's ''eight?'' ("The daughter I've been raising for eight years..." "Susan, do you remember what happened eight years ago?") What the hell? I know [[WritersCannotDoMath Writers Can't Do Math]], but seriously, that is just ridiculous. I'm no math expert, but it's just basic, simple math. And somehow, I don't think SORAS is to blame in this case. I've seen ''fanfiction writers'' be more consistent with character aging.
** Maybe they stole her like Paul and Mary Alice did. And no one in the neighborhood but Julie ever knows enough math to even do their own taxes, so it's the perfect crime.
** Juanita could also be seven, meaning she's in her eighth year of living.
* Why didn't Gabrielle and Carlos keep the baby that their Chinese surrogate gave birth to? Just because it wasn't genetically theirs doesn't mean it's not a child for them to raise, I mean, they were willing to go through adoption, and tried to take the illegitimate child of a stripper, so why did they suddenly not want this one?
** I don't remember exactly, but I believe they mention that there was a mix-up when the embryos were implanted. The baby belonged to another couple, so it's possible that they decided to take him and raise him. Carlos and Gabrielle's baby didn't make it. 
** You don't get to go around just keeping other people's babies like a game of finders-keepers. That baby has biological parents somewhere who aren't at fault because the doctors stupidly put their embryos in the wrong woman.
* Paul Young would have never been caught and found out about how he and Mary Alice killed Zack's real mother if he didn't decide to just randomly dig up her body and chuck it in the water. Did he think that people would sooner drain his pool, dig through the concrete beneath it, and then pull up the chest the body was buried in than if he just tossed it outside?
** Clearly someone knew about the Youngs murdering Deirdre, how could Paul be certain that the same person hadn't figured also where the body was buried?
** My theory is that Paul decided very early on that the safest thing to do would be to move him and his son as far away as possible. While it's not likely the pool would be dug up any time ''soon'', there's no guarantee it '''never''' would be. Digging up that chest isn't as stupid as it seems at first provided he then put it somewhere more secure. So the better question would be why Paul then proceeded to throw the airtight, unweighted box into a river where it would obviously be found quickly...
* Wasn't Andrew engaged in season 5, hence why he moved out into his own house on the neighborhood? His fiance is never mentioned at all in season six, and it even mentions Andrew having sex with some of Bree's new employees, without any mention of infidelity. Considering it was kind of an important subplot for Bree and him in season 5, it seems sort of weird to just brush it under the rug.
** Actually, Bree DID ask about Alex when it came to light that Andrew had been sleeping with an employee. It was simply left alone, likely because of the name of the show being "Desperate Housewives," not "The children of desperate housewives" and Andrew was only a recurring character, not a main cast member, in Season 6, with Bree's plot of [[spoiler: Rex's illegitimate child]] coming to the forefront over Andrew's infidelity. And in Season 7, Alex has left Andrew because of him developing a drinking problem, though he is referred to as Alex's husband, so they must have gotten married off-screen.
* At the end of season 6, Orson leaves Bree because she made him turn himself in for running over Mike and did not make Andrew do the same when he ran over Juanita Solis the Elder. All she can say is that 'he is my child'. Why did she not point out that what Orson did was on purpose and what Andrew did was an accident?
** Yes. That always bugged me. Theres a difference between a 16 year old accidentally running someone over... panicking and running... than a grown man deliberately commiting a hit and run with the intent to kill or at least cause grievous bodily harm
* Was Bree always a NeatFreak, according to her aunt, or was she laid back in the uni, according to Rex?
** It could possibly be a little of both. She was always a tidy person but it didn't reach the levels shown in series until much later.
* The finale implies that all the housewives don't really see each other again. Does that mean that Lynette never [[spoiler: spends time with her grand-daughter, since Julie moves away? And does Porter not get to know his daughter?]]
** I think that it was just the main women who didn't get all together again. That's not to say there wasn't the occasional visit here and there, but no gathering of the whole group.
** Ditto the above, and plus, it's explicitly made clear that Lynette does get to see her granddaughter, and all her other future grandchildren: she takes them to Central Park "and yells at them."
* If Renee is Lynette's best friend and has been since college (as Lynette says to Tom when mad at him over sleeping with her) why have her children never met her before? Especially as she is so keen to rub Renee's face in her beautiful family.
** I don't know about the ""best"" part of their friendship, but I think they discussed how, before Renee moved to Wisteria Lane, it was only Lynette that went to visit her/was invited to Renee's place. Lynette never invited Renee to stay in fairview, even when she went there during season 7, Renee just invited herself into Lynette's home. This likely has to do with how Lynette feels insecure about being less rich than Renee.
* If Betty had gone through with killing Caleb, how exactly was she planning to dispose of his body?
** Probably the same (unseen) way they disposed of the killer sent to their home.
* What happens to Paul Young?
** Presumably he goes back to jail but for a much shorter time due to confessing.
* What happens to Zack?
** He went to rehab and was never seen again. Probably relapsed after getting out, since Paul was in prision and both Mike and Mary Alice were dead. The kid had no one left for him anymore. Maybe he went into an asylum and ate his own feces with Dave, who knows....
* What happens to Kayla?
** She will forever and ever stay at her maternal grandparent's house, eternally unmentioned and eternally a kid.
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