10 Gilmore Girls Moments That Will Totally Make You Cringe Now
Just one of many times Lorelai was the worst to Sookie.
Emily's interchangeable maids
With few deviations, Emily's maids in Gilmore Girls are women of color, non-English speakers, and—as the show portrays them—interchangeable. Emily's rude treatment (and subsequent firing) of her many maids became a point of "humor" on the show. But there isn't anything funny about a spoiled white person disposing of women working in her home like they aren't human beings.
When Rory fat-shames a ballerina in her Yale Daily News article
Rory confirms that she is a terrible journalist in a season-four episode of Gilmore Girls titled "Die, Jerk." The "jerk" in question is Rory, who spends the majority of her ballet review for the Yale Daily News fat-shaming one of the dancers instead of, ya know, critiquing the actual performance. (If you recall, she calls this ballerina a "hippo" and points out the "roll of fat around her bra strap." Yikes.) "Jerk" is putting it lightly, to be honest.
The fact that Paris gets rejected from Harvard, but Rory gets in
Just like Blair Waldorf deserved to get into Yale more than the ridiculous Serena van der Woodsen did, the hardworking Paris deserved to get into Harvard way more than Rory. Where is the justice? It especially feels problematic when you remember that Paris doesn't get in after she loses her virginity. Rory, however, is still a virgin—or as Lorelai puts it, "the good kid"—so this somehow makes her more deserving?
When Emily essentially says that fat people shouldn't go to parties
During the season-five episode titled "The Party's Over," Emily is agonizing over how far apart to place the rows of chairs in her living room for a soirée. She wants them far apart enough so that people can "navigate around them comfortably," but not too far. When Emily's workers push the chairs a little wider than her liking, she barks, "Good lord! If someone needs that much room to get around a chair, they shouldn't be at a party. They should be on a treadmill." Yes, Emily literally suggested that plus-size people shouldn't go to parties because they need to be exercising. I'm done.
