My favorite thing about X-Files was always how it inverted the gender narratives. Mulder and Scully are classic foils — the skeptic and the "believer" — but Scully is rational, where Mulder is the one who's stigmatized as crazy. That having been said, maybe it's the resurgence of 90s beauty and fashion trends, but I don't read her as deliberately fashion-ignorant? She's not INTO fashion but she's not TOTALLY dowdy
My favorite thing about X-Files was always how it inverted the gender narratives. Mulder and Scully are classic foils — the skeptic and the "believer" — but Scully is rational, where Mulder is the one who's stigmatized as crazy. That having been said, maybe it's the resurgence of 90s beauty and fashion trends, but I don't read her as deliberately fashion-ignorant? She's not INTO fashion but she's not TOTALLY dowdy