NEW EPISODE!!!!! Best quote by the cute director, "Serena, I'm gay." But on a more serious note, this episode reflects my blog on last week. Girls truly are the most spiteful creatures on the planet. In this episode, rumors are being spread like wildfire during the play the school is hosting, Age of Innocence. Dan's relationship with the teacher, Rachel, gets out. The other teachers mock her and treat her job as a joke. This makes her very bitter and angry. She wants to hurt the source where it is the most traumatizing. She called the Dean of Yale and spilled everything about why Blair was in trouble. This cost her the early admission and admission at all. She was devastated and on a mission to find out exactly who did it. But this is very difficult to do because almost all the girls in the school dislike her and would do this. She realizes this and is very introspective about it. Serena is also hurt by Rachel's gossip. It seems everyone is. But she of all people should know better because she is the older one and supposed to be their teacher. When Blair finally figures out what happened, she starts over to her in a rage then Rachel realizes how horrible she is. Blair chooses to punish her in the worst possible way. She decides to just let Rachel live with the thought of all she destroyed and the person she became, like Blair is forced to do everyday. All this starts over spite, which only destroys everyone.

Boys and girls are both vindictive and ruthless when getting what they want, but they have slightly different methods in their scheming. Once again I was watching the rerun where they go to the snowflake ball. (Only one more Monday till the new episode.) Everyone knows that Chuck wants Blair, pretty bad too, but he won’t just say it. He just plays games with her. In this episode, he refuses to ask her to the Snowflake Ball, but he bets he knows her well enough to pick the perfect date for her. It ends up being his slightly less attractive unbiological twin. This is just evidence that guys can never be straightforward, they go around the issue so they can’t be embarrassed. The other event that describes the girls, showed just how mean little Jenny could be. Vanessa hid a not from Nate and made Nate come back to her because he thought Jenny just ignored his confession of love. Jenny chose a more straightforward method of getting what she wanted, and that was to embarrass Vanessa. She made her a peace offering of a see through dress, so she would be publicly embarrassed in front of Nate, and Nate would come back to Jenny. This was a bitter and mean plan, but it also failed. It made Jenny out to be someone Nate wanted nothing to do with. This episode highlights the different ways guys go for girls and girls go for guys. If a guy wants something, he takes forever in getting it, and goes about it in the way with the least consequences. But when a girl wants something, she does whatever it takes, without thinking of all the possible results of her actions.

The Same Girl, Two Different Worlds.

With the lack of new Gossip Girl episodes, I am running out of things to write. But I have been watching a little bit more of Firefly. There is a character from Firefly the reminds me greatly of Serena. Her name is Inara. She is a Companion to the Alliance. ( A companion is a highly respected geisha, that also has intimate relations with her customers. They are run by the government.) Both are very feminine and have many similar traits. Serena is the "queen bee" of her popular group. She is a social butterfly and attends all the parties, as is expected to as a female in high society. She always dresses really trendy and fashionable with a closet full of luscious clothes. She always makes sure her appearance and image is pristine. Boys are her specialty. They are everywhere, falling over her at every turn. She has a confident power over everyone and a very forward personality. She radiates what the idea high society female should be. Inara is very similar. Because of her job, she must present herself as perfectly womanly and respectable. She is from high society and an upscale social scene. She has all these fancy parties and government officials to entertain. Her wardrobe is vast for living on a space shuttle, and she is the envy of all the girls on the crew, and the desire of all the men. Everyone wants to meet here, but she is very selective. Inara is confident and feminine. She is deeper though, she does fine love in her deep desires. Both are very passionate in their relationships. When they find a guy they are in love with, they are stubborn and persistent, but unlike Serena, Inara is not as forward and does not jump at the boys. I believe both characters would get along well if they ever met, but would be competitive over their boys.