Yes. Was she smart enough to sell ideas and designs to support her daughter? No. Was she strong enough to move crates or shovel dirt? No. She did it with a tight dress. I mean, sorry, she is a bimbo. There are a lot of worse things she could be, like a financial adviser or real estate agent.
That makes me think of the old joke of a businessman who divorced his wife and a year later brought a date to a sleazy restaurant / bar. At the bar he met his ex who was working there as a waitress. He laughed at her for falling "so low" in fortune since they broke up.
She looked at his date and then at him and replied, "At least I don't come in here to eat when I'm trying to impress someone."
You joked about the
financial advisor and
real estate agent, both of whom sell ideas and "designs", but since many
are unscrupulous that joke is "funny".
Just like it would be funny to say "at least she wasn't a
banker who made unsustainable mortgages to families who could not afford them, thus contributing to a housing collapse and foreclosure on the dreams/fortunes of over 5 million of said families, and at least she wasn't the unscrupulous
broker who repackaged those mortgages into derivatives and sold those worthless derivatives to individuals and institutions in volumes large enough to help trigger the worst recession in the US since the Great Depression of '29. And at least she wasn't a
politician in Washington who stood in front of the TV cameras in their custom fitted Brooks Brothers suits, decrying the falling economy while protecting the people and bailing out the institutions who lead us into that great recession in the first place.
The urban dictionary describes a
bimbo as "A girl who is stupid, wears lots of make up and is obsessed with boys and clothes. Generally blonde but there are exceptions. Usually hangs around with other bimbos. You can spot them because they will be the big group of girls that all look the same and are giggling hysterically."
That doesn't sound like a woman who works
60 hours a week, most likely without sick time or vacation time. You deride her for not being strong enough to
"dig ditches or move crates" but lets see your average stevedore stand in 6 inch stilettos for 60 hours each week, in clothes too tight to breathe while hoping to get 5 dollar tip from the grabby guy at table 12 before he loses his cool and belts him one.
My guess is the stevedore would be fired within the hour.
Like many of us, Felicity looked at the tight dress and makeup and made assumptions about her mother that were wrong.
Assumptions, she learned 2 years ago from billionaire playboy Oliver Queen, are a dangerous thing when we base them on such superficial evidence.
I liked how her mom called Felicity on the carpet, how she acknowledged Felicity's (like her father's) intelligence far outstripped her own, but that this troglodyte STAYED by Felicity's side and did whatever it took to support this genius in the making. Even when all she could feel from her daughter was derision and disrespect because she
couldn't move crates, or dig ditches or steal millions from unsuspecting families willing to invest their futures with her.
In the end, Felicity was right.
She did get her
toughness from her mom.
Thank heavens.
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