Partypants: Dr. Lisa Cuddy

Partypants: Dr. Lisa Cuddy
Here you can talk about Dr. Lisa Cuddy's faults and brilliances. And low-cut shirts. :wink:

How about: Calls attention to her bosom by wearing a low-cut top: Lisa Cuddy

We were just trying to get the threads up. We can make them fun once everything's in place(but I love that suggestion) When did Cuddy stop being sort of...administrative? She seems like kid of a pushover now.:(

LOL, I love that suggestion. Unfortunately, it doesn't fit. Gah. And I miss administrative!Cuddy. I liked her.

I miss kickass!Cuddy as well. I'll keep looking fora title that's not quite as long

How about: Also known as Partypants: Dr. Lisa Cuddy

I like the partypants one, or Do You Think Every Day Shoukd be Casual Day, the low cut tops was a reference to the intern not Cuddy

Oh, yes. I, too miss kickass!Cuddy. Going all the way back to the pilot, how about "If you try sometimes, you get what you need". I loved the way she delivered that line.

I like Partypants.

I like Cuddy alot. In particular I enjoy that she has not become the stereotypical hardass administrative female that seem to populate male nightmares. Instead, she is tough, emotional, affectionate, smart, sometimes savvy, other times clueless, able to juggle a multitude of challenges, genuinely funny, compassionate, overwhelmed and in charge and able to do it all dancing backwards and in high heels. I love that she refuses to compromise in her dress choices. She wears what she wants because she is the boss and she can. Just as House chooses to wear jeans, worn t-shirts and no lab coat, Cuddy chooses to wear outrageously low-cut blouses, flowered prints that scream girly-girl, skirts with illegally high slits and the tallest pumps she can find. I also love that Cuddy desires a baby. This is poignant, true to life, and gives her a context that shapes many of her other choices. Is this all perfectly realistic? No. Is is complex, challenging, and deeply entertaining? Oh, yes!

I love that she refuses to compromise in her dress choices. She wears what she wants because she is the boss and she can. Just as House chooses to wear jeans, worn t-shirts and no lab coat, Cuddy chooses to wear outrageously low-cut blouses, flowered prints that scream girly-girl, skirts with illegally high slits and the tallest pumps she can find. I haven't made that connection between House and Cuddy's unconventional sartorial work-wear blacktop. Or if I did, I forgot, because Cuddy = roawr. And I like your take on why she would do it (because she is the boss and she can). That kind of approach to life is one of the main reasons I love her character. And I like what you said about Cuddy being a unique female character, in that she encompasses both "hard" and "soft" aspects of her personality fully and one doesn't cancel the other out. I would like to see some more of Cuddy's . . . not stereotypically bossy side, but she played "angry" so well in the S3 DVD extra Angry Valley Girl scene with JMo. I swear, she was actually kind of scary. It was great, because I've never been overwhelmed just by LE's presence as opposed to her position of power at work. I just think it would be cool to see LE play that kind of unforgiving emotion in character, to contrast with her snarky yet ultimately forgiving relationship with House.

I like Cuddy alot. In particular I enjoy that she has not become the stereotypical hardass administrative female that seem to populate male nightmares. Instead, she is tough, emotional, affectionate, smart, sometimes savvy, other times clueless, able to juggle a multitude of challenges, genuinely funny, compassionate, overwhelmed and in charge and able to do it all dancing backwards and in high heels. I love that she refuses to compromise in her dress choices. She wears what she wants because she is the boss and she can. Just as House chooses to wear jeans, worn t-shirts and no lab coat, Cuddy chooses to wear outrageously low-cut blouses, flowered prints that scream girly-girl, skirts with illegally high slits and the tallest pumps she can find. I also love that Cuddy desires a baby. This is poignant, true to life, and gives her a context that shapes many of her other choices. Is this all perfectly realistic? No. Is is complex, challenging, and deeply entertaining? Oh, yes! Good post. :) You put into words the exact reasons why I myself like Cuddy. And good to know I'm not the only one who likes the fact that Cuddy wants a baby.

The wardrobe question in the ducklings thread got me thinking of something else, so I figured I'd post it here. Because Cuddy is only a few years younger than me, I've pictured her as growing up on that edge of timing in which little girls weren't automatically expected to have the same career choices as little boys. For me, it was thought that if you had a "career" at all, it would be as a nurse, a teacher or a secretary. And, for some reason, I picture her as growing up in a family that had a strong feminist outlook that defied that perception -- and taking it a step further that she can dress however she wants, and yet be and do anything she wants as well. But at the same time, she would have been at the tail end of the generation that had to fight that old boy's club. That had to take on the sexist attitudes that girls don't do well in science, that women are going to quit being doctors to become wives and mothers, that they can't handle the stress. I like the idea that she's had strong female mentors who encountered the same attitudes, and told her to fight back. I tend to think that her main problem with Cameron (which hasn't been completely vocalized, but has been hinted at in canon) is that Cameron came of age when she didn't have that same male bulwark that she had to fight against. When Cameron was 8-10 years old, Geraldine Ferraro was running for vice president on a major party ticket. Cameron's ingenue attitude was never questioned, while Cuddy's full on "I am woman, hear me roar" may have began as an act of defiance. (I also, for no good reason, picture Cuddy as growing up in the tony Detroit suburb of Birmingham, Mich., because good Jewish girls from Birmingham go to the University of Michigan.) So is that completely off the mark? Did I just grow up in a very backwards community (not that I'd be surprised)?

The wardrobe question in the ducklings thread got me thinking of something else, so I figured I'd post it here. Because Cuddy is only a few years younger than me, I've pictured her as growing up on that edge of timing in which little girls weren't automatically expected to have the same career choices as little boys. For me, it was thought that if you had a "career" at all, it would be as a nurse, a teacher or a secretary. And, for some reason, I picture her as growing up in a family that had a strong feminist outlook that defied that perception -- and taking it a step further that she can dress however she wants, and yet be and do anything she wants as well. But at the same time, she would have been at the tail end of the generation that had to fight that old boy's club. That had to take on the sexist attitudes that girls don't do well in science, that women are going to quit being doctors to become wives and mothers, that they can't handle the stress. I like the idea that she's had strong female mentors who encountered the same attitudes, and told her to fight back. I tend to think that her main problem with Cameron (which hasn't been completely vocalized, but has been hinted at in canon) is that Cameron came of age when she didn't have that same male bulwark that she had to fight against. When Cameron was 8-10 years old, Geraldine Ferraro was running for vice president on a major party ticket. Cameron's ingenue attitude was never questioned, while Cuddy's full on "I am woman, hear me roar" may have began as an act of defiance. (I also, for no good reason, picture Cuddy as growing up in the tony Detroit suburb of Birmingham, Mich., because good Jewish girls from Birmingham go to the University of Michigan.) So is that completely off the mark? Did I just grow up in a very backwards community (not that I'd be surprised)?Namaste. No. I think you are right on the money. I grew up during that cusp as well. I majored in Chemistry and Biology, and once out of college was always fighting my way into the "club". The secretaries were the worst, though, in obtaining respect. My mom (although having been a legal secretary) gave me completley mixed messages the whole way through. She was always a feminist, but was constantly dismayed that I hadn't yet acquired my Mrs. degree by the time I graduated. I completely understand what Cuddy's going through with her biological clock. There is a tension there, and despite being a high powered professional, especially if you are from a certain era or before, the pressure (put on yourself) can be extreme. Cameron never had to fight that battle, so I would think that might be some of source of their tension.

Am I the only one who thinks part of the whateveritis between Cuddy and Cameron could have to do with Cuddy's exasperation at how much of throw-back Cameron is? Crushing on House, risking her career to have sex, whiny tattletale? Or it just me and not Cuddy who seen Cam that way? :wink:

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