Read Online Coffee at Luke's: An Unauthorized Gilmore Girls Gabfest (Smart Pop Series) by Jennifer Crusie, Leah Wilson - Free Book Online
Authors: Jennifer Crusie, Leah Wilson
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the least. Her worst fear seems to be that Rory might lose her virginity to Jess.
One weird moment happens when Lorelai is eavesdropping on Paris and Rory. When Lorelai hears that Paris has had sex and Rory, now seventeen, is still a virgin, she smugly says to herself, “I’ve got the good kid” (“The Big One,” 3-16).
Is this the same woman who had a baby out of wedlock when she was sixteen? Perhaps the prospect of your own daughter having sex makes even the youngest, hippest mom channel Newt Gingrich, Anthony Comstock, and Andrea Dworkin. I do know I never hesitate to remind my daughter that she should always use condoms, even if she’s on the pill, because she could still get syphilis, gonorrhea, herpes, AIDS. . . . It’s almost as if I want these frightening diseases to scare her into celibacy, even though I of course want her to enjoy her sexuality.
Before too long, Rory seems to have put “losing virginity” on her to-do list. And she tells Lorelai her intentions.
RORY: Nothing’s happened yet, but . . . it might. Maybe.
LORELAI: Maybe?
RORY: Maybe . . . with Jess.
LORELAI: Hm, with Jess.
RORY: You still want me to tell you everything, right?
LORELAI: Yeah. Uh, no. Well—
RORY: Which is it?
LORELAI: We’re doing this now.
RORY: Yes. Which is it?
LORELAI: I don’t know.
RORY: You’ll let me know?
LORELAI: Yeah.
RORY: Was that, yeah, you’ll let me know, or yeah, that’s your answer, you wanna know?
LORELAI: I guess, I want to know, yes, and now, sure.
The language is especially awkward. No clever repartee here. When it comes to sex, the Gilmore Girls are as awkward as any mother and daughter.
RORY: Well, nothing’s happened.
LORELAI: I heard.
RORY: But it might.
LORELAI: Okay. Could you tell me before it does?
RORY: Right before, or—
LORELAI: No, just . . . just before.
RORY: Okay. (“Swan Song,” 3-14)
Lorelai’s request to be notified when her daughter is going to have sex seems like a desperate attempt to maintain the status quo: we are best friends; we tell each other everything. She puts her arm around Rory, and Rory puts her arm around Lorelai, and they begin to eat. And they both look very uncomfortable.
Rory’s first sexual experience is not destined to be with Jess, though. He leaves town, and Rory goes off to Yale. She doesn’t get serious with any guy her first year of college. And then she ends up having sex, surprisingly, with the now-married Dean. And she does not consult with Lorelai first.
When Lorelai discovers the truth, she does not take it well. She insults Rory in a very Emilyesque way. “I didn’t raise you to be like this. I didn’t raise you to be the kind of girl who sleeps with someone else’s husband” (“Raincoats and Recipes,” 4-22). In fact, she reduces Rory to tears. The season ends with the two fighting and then picks up again in the same place in the fall.
LORELAI: I give up. It’s your life. Do what you want.
RORY: Thank you.
LORELAI: You’re nineteen. You know what you’re doing.
RORY: I do know what I’m doing.
LORELAI: So you don’t want to talk. We won’t talk.
RORY: Good.
LORELAI: I wasn’t thinking we had to talk like mom and kid. I thought we could talk as friends, but hey, forget it.
RORY: I will. (“Say Goodbye to Daisy Miller,” 5-1)
Now that Rory has an active sex life, it’s just not the same between mother and daughter. I think it would be safe to say that for most mothers and daughters—even today’s most chummy ones—this is a point in the relationship where there is a drawing back. There’s just something so intrinsically icky (for lack of a better word) about it. Few daughters want to confess to mom about doing the dirty. And even the coolest Boomer mom isn’t too keen on hearing the details of her daughter’s sex life. You could
One weird moment happens when Lorelai is eavesdropping on Paris and Rory. When Lorelai hears that Paris has had sex and Rory, now seventeen, is still a virgin, she smugly says to herself, “I’ve got the good kid” (“The Big One,” 3-16).
Is this the same woman who had a baby out of wedlock when she was sixteen? Perhaps the prospect of your own daughter having sex makes even the youngest, hippest mom channel Newt Gingrich, Anthony Comstock, and Andrea Dworkin. I do know I never hesitate to remind my daughter that she should always use condoms, even if she’s on the pill, because she could still get syphilis, gonorrhea, herpes, AIDS. . . . It’s almost as if I want these frightening diseases to scare her into celibacy, even though I of course want her to enjoy her sexuality.
Before too long, Rory seems to have put “losing virginity” on her to-do list. And she tells Lorelai her intentions.
RORY: Nothing’s happened yet, but . . . it might. Maybe.
LORELAI: Maybe?
RORY: Maybe . . . with Jess.
LORELAI: Hm, with Jess.
RORY: You still want me to tell you everything, right?
LORELAI: Yeah. Uh, no. Well—
RORY: Which is it?
LORELAI: We’re doing this now.
RORY: Yes. Which is it?
LORELAI: I don’t know.
RORY: You’ll let me know?
LORELAI: Yeah.
RORY: Was that, yeah, you’ll let me know, or yeah, that’s your answer, you wanna know?
LORELAI: I guess, I want to know, yes, and now, sure.
The language is especially awkward. No clever repartee here. When it comes to sex, the Gilmore Girls are as awkward as any mother and daughter.
RORY: Well, nothing’s happened.
LORELAI: I heard.
RORY: But it might.
LORELAI: Okay. Could you tell me before it does?
RORY: Right before, or—
LORELAI: No, just . . . just before.
RORY: Okay. (“Swan Song,” 3-14)
Lorelai’s request to be notified when her daughter is going to have sex seems like a desperate attempt to maintain the status quo: we are best friends; we tell each other everything. She puts her arm around Rory, and Rory puts her arm around Lorelai, and they begin to eat. And they both look very uncomfortable.
Rory’s first sexual experience is not destined to be with Jess, though. He leaves town, and Rory goes off to Yale. She doesn’t get serious with any guy her first year of college. And then she ends up having sex, surprisingly, with the now-married Dean. And she does not consult with Lorelai first.
When Lorelai discovers the truth, she does not take it well. She insults Rory in a very Emilyesque way. “I didn’t raise you to be like this. I didn’t raise you to be the kind of girl who sleeps with someone else’s husband” (“Raincoats and Recipes,” 4-22). In fact, she reduces Rory to tears. The season ends with the two fighting and then picks up again in the same place in the fall.
LORELAI: I give up. It’s your life. Do what you want.
RORY: Thank you.
LORELAI: You’re nineteen. You know what you’re doing.
RORY: I do know what I’m doing.
LORELAI: So you don’t want to talk. We won’t talk.
RORY: Good.
LORELAI: I wasn’t thinking we had to talk like mom and kid. I thought we could talk as friends, but hey, forget it.
RORY: I will. (“Say Goodbye to Daisy Miller,” 5-1)
Now that Rory has an active sex life, it’s just not the same between mother and daughter. I think it would be safe to say that for most mothers and daughters—even today’s most chummy ones—this is a point in the relationship where there is a drawing back. There’s just something so intrinsically icky (for lack of a better word) about it. Few daughters want to confess to mom about doing the dirty. And even the coolest Boomer mom isn’t too keen on hearing the details of her daughter’s sex life. You could
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