ButBonesis also all about sympathy for the victim.
What happens when the victim is a meninist?
Bonesasks why a person would become a meninist in the first place.
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But she knows as well as anyone that a tragic backstory cant excuse everything.
Motive is already a loaded thing in a world where men shoot women who turn them down for dates.
Dont feed the mens rights activists.
The look on her face when shes offered a Men Now brochure is classic.
Unsurprisingly, Emils work netted him plenty of enemies.
(Brennan: Thats a terrible loss.)
Booth is surprised to learn that Brennan has been a card-carrying member of Women for Change since college.
Im surprised that hes surprised; of course she is.
Booth and Brennan find Marino protesting a hotel known for wage inequality.
That still sounds like motive for murder, but two weeks ago, it all stopped.
Is Karen a victim?
How much say has she had in what her life has become?
Even if Karen agrees with her husband in theory, in practice, shes not a big fan.
(And just think of how many nights hed lie awake feeling guilty for perpetrating more violence!
Brennan needs her sleep.)
Karen used her job at a security company (Wouldnt her husband be against a working wife?)
to help Emil break into his ex-wifes house.
Since the divorce, Gail has taken to sleeping with her contractor.
If Emil could prove the relationship, he wouldnt have to pay Gail any more alimony.
Booth takes them both into custody.
Back at the lab, another relationship is on the rocks.
He doesnt have feeling in his legs, but he has plenty of other feelings: Anger.
Though Im not sure if that last one is a feeling or just a really pissy attitude.
(Brennan: Its an attitude.)
This is the Hodgins we met in season 1, but meaner.
Even lunch at the diner isnt easy anymore.
As his new reality starts to set in, Hodgins lashes out.
At least the people online, theyre honest, he says.
They know that Im not going to just snap back and be the person that I was before.
The women of the Jeffersonian dont put up with this treatment.
