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* GoodAdulteryBadAdultery: Piper hits the obligatory \\\"good adultery\\\" buttons to a mind-boggling extent; she\\\'s the protagonist cheating with a woman in order to create the show\\\'s veritable OneTruePairing with Alex, and she\\\'s cheating on Larry because she\\\'s lonely and going through a rough spot with him. Her helping Alex cheat on the latter\\\'s \\\'\\\'current girlfriend\\\'\\\' is painted as romantic and even erotic on the show due to it being part of Piper\\\'s identification as a bisexual-- In fact, Piper doesn\\\'t even seem to care that Alex has a girlfriend since she didn\\\'t view them as \\\"soul mates.\\\" In a sharp contrast, Larry has the \\\"bad adultery\\\" for [[spoiler:sleeping with Polly]] despite the fact that he and Piper weren\\\'t even together anymore and both he and [[spoiler:Polly]] fulfill the \\\"lonely\\\" aspect of good adultery; It\\\'s supposed to be a good thing that Piper enlists Neri to leave a burning bag of dog feces on [[spoiler:Polly\\\'s]] doorstep. [[SarcasmMode Who cares that Piper isn\\\'t the one who\\\'s suffering as a result of the affair?]] Though this might be a case of ProtagonistCenteredMorality, where the audience is expected to support Piper despite her blatant hypocrisy, which was vivid due to the episode\\\'s juxtaposition of her cheating (again, portrayed in a romantic light) with Larry\\\'s.\\\"
This entry has a serious case of Portrayal Equals Endorsement. Piper is repeatedly portrayed and outright described as a self-centred manipulator who plays games with both Larry and Alex (neither of whom are saints either), and karma kicks her in the teeth for it. And who says that petty act of revenge was \\\"supposed to be a good thing\\\" or that \\\"the audience is supposed to support Piper\\\"?
I\\\'m thinking that a rewrite might be possible that describes the ways the show plays with this trope without making such a zealous judgement that the show sides one way to \\\"a mind-boggling extent\\\". I\\\'ll work on it.
* GoodAdulteryBadAdultery: Piper hits the obligatory \\\"good adultery\\\" buttons to a mind-boggling extent; she\\\'s the protagonist cheating with a woman in order to create the show\\\'s veritable OneTruePairing with Alex, and she\\\'s cheating on Larry because she\\\'s lonely and going through a rough spot with him. Her helping Alex cheat on the latter\\\'s \\\'\\\'current girlfriend\\\'\\\' is painted as romantic and even erotic on the show due to it being part of Piper\\\'s identification as a bisexual-- In fact, Piper doesn\\\'t even seem to care that Alex has a girlfriend since she didn\\\'t view them as \\\"soul mates.\\\" In a sharp contrast, Larry has the \\\"bad adultery\\\" for [[spoiler:sleeping with Polly]] despite the fact that he and Piper weren\\\'t even together anymore and both he and [[spoiler:Polly]] fulfill the \\\"lonely\\\" aspect of good adultery; It\\\'s supposed to be a good thing that Piper enlists Neri to leave a burning bag of dog feces on [[spoiler:Polly\\\'s]] doorstep. [[SarcasmMode Who cares that Piper isn\\\'t the one who\\\'s suffering as a result of the affair?]] Though this might be a case of ProtagonistCenteredMorality, where the audience is expected to support Piper despite her blatant hypocrisy, which was vivid due to the episode\\\'s juxtaposition of her cheating (again, portrayed in a romantic light) with Larry\\\'s.\\\"
This entry has a serious case of Portrayal Equals Endorsement. Piper is repeatedly portrayed and outright described as a self-centred manipulator who plays games with both Larry and Alex (neither of whom are saints either), and karma kicks her in the teeth for it. And who says that petty act of revenge was \\\"supposed to be a good thing\\\" or that \\\"the audience is supposed to support Piper\\\"?
I\\\'m thinking that a rewrite might be possible that describes the ways the show plays with this trope without making such a zealous judgement that the show sides one way to \\\"a mind-boggling extent\\\". I\\\'ll work on it.
