[ SECRET POST #2206 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2206 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I think it was about politics and socioeconomics at least as much as it was about sex work.

So do I! There's a moment in the brothel-saving ep ("Heart of Gold" is the name of both the ep and the brothel, IIRC), when Inara's telling him how HoG isn't affiliated with the Companions's guild, and Mal gets this little, kind of impressed/approving smile, and he goes, "So, they're independents." Which of course is also the name of his own political affiliation. And then he sleeps with Nandi.

So it makes me think that what Mal's attitude was supposed to be all about was his not approving of the extent to which the Companions were this central institution that was part of the dominant Alliance socio-political system that he hates. But the way that him calling Inara a "whore" can come off in the context of the 20th/21st-century viewing public is... kind of not the same. Like it came off as slut-shaming rather than establishment-shaming, and then you add the flirty overtones to their relationship and UGH.