Manly, Yes...but I like it too
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| Title: | Manly, Yes...but I like it too |
| Creator: | Sister Autumn |
| Date(s): | November 2000 |
| Medium: | online |
| Fandom: | The X-Files |
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| External Links: | News for the OBSSEed |
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Manly, Yes...but I like it too is a 2000 essay by Sister Autumn that focused on TPTB's marketing of a new series character, John Doggett.
The essay was published in News for the OBSSEsed #36.
It is accompanied by the filk The Manly Cop Song (to the tune of The Lumberjack Song) by Sister 'Dubh and a photo manip.
A related essay is Rant Along with CathyB: John Doggett.
Excerpt
This summer and fall, in advance of some big changes to the show for season 8, 1013 launched a campaign. Let's call it the "John Manly Mannish Blue-Collar Guyness Doggett Campaign." For some reason they have become oddly fixated on the perceived masculinity of this new character. And they want to tell us about it. Over and over and over. Just so we know without question that this guy is exceedingly manly. Apparently Scully was paired with David Duchovny's character Denise from Twin Peaks the past seven years since to hear them talk Mulder was, I don't know, a girlie man? A squirrel's guy? A white-collar slacker wussy?
Quotes by TPTB
The essay includes many quotes from made by TPTB to mainstream media that focused on Doggett/Patrick masculinity,
- "We wanted somebody who was blue-collar, former cop, a man's man."—Chris Carter on John Doggett, Television Critics Association
- "What's more important is that he's as different from Mulder as we could make him."—Chris Carter on John Doggett, Cinescape Magazine
- "He is a man's man, an ex-cop, and he's got that kind of edge."—Gillian Anderson, LA Magazine
- "Doggett is really a guy's guy."—Frank Spotnitz, X-Files Official Magazine
- "Robert's got a very masculine quality."—Chris Carter, Entertainment Weekly
- "He's a masculine presence. He has more of a blue-collar, working man quality."—Frank Spotnitz, Palm Beach Post
- "He's like one of the "guys," he's like one of the hard-core there ... he's his own man." -- Chris Carter at Comic-Con
- "Doggett's a male."—Robert Patrick, New York Times
Imagined Scenarios and Dialogue
The essay's author also included several imagined interchanges between Dana Scully and Robert Patrick that may have occurred if Doggett had been Scully's original partner.
Two examples:
DARKNESS FALLS
Scully: What am I looking at?
Doggett: Thirty loggers working a clear-cutting contract in Washington State. Rugged, manly men in the full bloom of their manhood. Much like myself.
THE PILOT
Doggett: You lost nine minutes! Me, I never get lost.