Criminal Minds

Well, last week's due date found me asleep at the keyboard, so I wasn't able to get my post in on time. You'd think I'd learn, but nope, once again, here I am, Friday night, typing up another blog post. At least I'm awake this time.

And I return with yet another crime show. Unlike most crime shows, which use evidence, mostly from the crime scene, to piece together what happened, the characters of Criminal Minds study the suspect's behaviors and their psychological connotations to try and predict his or her next move. This week's killer turned out to be a woman, more specifically, a high-class prostitute, so naturally I had to jump at this chance.

The killer uses her position to mete out her own form of justice to men who abandon their families and get away with it since they have the money and power to make it all just go away. What is prostitution, though, but an epitomical demonstration of sexual hierarchy? While the man lives his life out in the open and participates in the social world, the woman takes "the side elevator" to get where she's going and does her work behind closed doors. Not even the criminal realm of illegal activity can escape the influence of traditional gender roles.

Throughout the episode, the team takes into account that this is a woman they are dealing with, and change their thinking accordingly. Knowing that the suspect is a female, they rule out the possibility that the killings could be for sexual reasons, because women are too good for that, right? That or they just aren't driven like men are by sexual desires. Therefore, she obviously must be killing the men for some emotional reason, because women are Oh So Emotional! Well what do you know, their killer plays right into it.

Because that's just the way life is.

Did you guys miss me? 'Cause I sure did.