In yet another illusrtration on how society’s expectations for women to be wifes and mothers despite how they feel about it or how miserable the husband and children might make them, we have Grey’s Anatomy telling us that there is something wrong with its female protagonist simply because she isn’t jumping at the chance to be Dr. Stepford Wife for Mc”Dreamy”. I fail to see his problem with her. It’s not like she said she didn’t want to marry him and have his greasy-haired kids; she simply told him that she wasn’t ready but that she would try to get ready. In my opinion, that’s more than he deserves right there.
And what does the bastard do to reward her honesty and compromising spirit? He starts dating other woman and – spoiler alert – may possibly fall in love with one, when just a few short episodes ago he was trying to pressure Meredith into more commitment because SHE was supposedly the love of his life. All this while he still hasn’t had the stones to completely break up with her. If Derek isn’t getting what he needs from Meredith and he wants what he wants right now, then he needs to cut her lose and save everybody a lot of misery. Why should he get to have his cake AND his pie and eat them, too, while Meredith ends up with diddly? Perhaps a more important question is, why would any other woman at this hospital still want him knowing how he treats Meredith and that he’s still fucking her in on-call rooms and supply closets on the regular?
