Keris Stainton on the TV women we love...
A bit of a departure this week. Not that I'm not focusing on a fabulous TV woman, but because I'm going to mostly let her speak for herself.
I've got something tough to tell you. Uh, I'm fabulous, okay? I'm an incredible dresser, I've got buckets of money, I'm a hoot and a half, and I've got a killer rack. Do you get what I'm saying?
Yes, it's Will & Grace's Karen Walker.
She's spoilt and rich...
Karen: He actually expects me to live on this.
Grace: Karen, I think you can learn to live on this. I mean Spain does.
A snob...
You know what else is sad? Poor people who have dreams ... well that's not sad as much as it is extremely funny.
Who is out of touch with reality...
Wow that may have been the greatest day of my life. I love errands. They're like mini-adventures for undesirables.
Horrendously politically incorrect...
Oh kids ruin everything. I mean look at the stitching on this. You cannot trust a ten year old to do a good hidden button.
Racist (although she denies it)...
Grace: Face it Karen, you're a racist.
Karen: How dare you call me a racist! Karen Walker is no racist. A homophobe maybe, but I am no racist! And you can ask anyone I own!
She's got no morals...
[to Jack] Oh, Honey. You're simple, you're shallow and you're a common whore. That's why we're soul mates.
And she's been around...
I've been dumped by one-ton billionaires, heads of state, and every member of Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young, but I'm not naming names. What's so great about another person, huh? All they do is manhandle your boobs and eat all the ham.
Her sexuality is ... fluid...
[to a lesbian at a hate crime prevention fundraiser] Oh yeah, honey, we're all lesbians when the right man isn't around.
She's even starred in a porno movie...
It's the oldest story in the book. Boy meets girl. Boy wants girl to do dominatrix film. Girls says, "Naked?" Boy says, "Yeah." Girl says, "No way." Boy says, "Okay how about you just wear this rubber dress and beat this old guy with a scrub brush?" Girl says, "How hard?"
And yet, we love her. She is entirely herself...
Oh honey, I would, but... I don't want to.
She tells it like it is...
By your inflection I can tell that you think what you're saying is funny, but... no.
And makes no apologies. Literally...
The only other person I've apologized to is my mother and that was court ordered.
Despite everything, she's completely fabulous.
You know I had a dream once. To be rich and beautiful and have a great body. Oh look, my dream came true.
Keris co-edits Shiny Media’s fabulous women’s fiction blog, Trashionista and contributes to TV Scoop and The Bag Lady. She's trying to find her inner Karen...
