Nomas quise referenciar con los personajes originales de YSBLF la escena esta de La Fea más Bella- || ENG:I just wanted make a reference, with the characters from YSBLF, this scene from La Fea más Bella 😅
Armando is a really conflicting character because of how much of a coward he is. He can't give a straight step ahead, it's always half things. He had a thing for Betty before the Plan, but when he was confronted with actually having something with her, he freaked out and feigned a disgust that was never there before. He always took Betty out to fancy places for work, it wasn't uncommon to be seen in public with her, but as soon as it was with actual intent, he freaked out and acted embarrassed even though they could have very easily just said it was purely for business. He said he was going to be public with her as soon as the meeting was over, but when Marcela catches them hugging, he immeditely denies it even though at this point he has nothing else to lose. He could only ever be honest in solitude or in front of Betty. He always lacked the courage to face society and himself.
I can understand Marcela’s hate for Betty for being Armando’s mistress and taking part in a fraud (although she hated her long before she knew about that and I don’t buy the bs about femenine intuition), but the argument she was right to hate her for covering up Armando’s affairs doesn’t fly when we take into account that Mario did the same and she didn’t have the same energy for him. Marcela hated her because she was “ugly”, because of her status and because Armando confided in her and trusted her. She couldn’t expect Betty, a woman in precarious financial situation, to snitch on her boss, the only one that had given her a chance and had hired her despite her looks. It’s appalling how people, particularly women, bend over backwards to defend and justify abuse and violence toward another woman because of ARMANDO’s affairs.
después de interrumpir a patricia en su intento de pedirle a betty que traiga los tintos a claudia elena y compañía con un "ni se te ocurra", armando le dice a betty en frente de todos los presentes, con un tono muy dulce: qué rico verla.
I love the not-subtle-at-all way that the novela basically tells us Betty was Armando's mujer while Marcerla was the lover. He basically sees them as such. Betty is the one who gets to know his location, the one he shares his secrets with, the one he relies on, the one who calms him and brings him peace. Whatever misunderstanding happens, it bothers him and he actually wants to give her explanations even when she doesn't want them. He cares about her opinion of him and the peace in their relationship.
Marcela, on the other hand, doesn't get any of this from him. All she gives him is sex, basically, as he tells Calderón. It actively annoys him when she wants the explanations and treatment that, in theory, she should have because she should be Armando's woman (how tragic is that is another topic). He doesn't care what Marcela thinks, he just doesn't want the fight and repercussions, so he forces himself to give explanations and feels, in his own words, like a little kid having to report himself.
In one of Betty's imaginations, she sees Marcela saying that a man screws his mistress and makes love to his woman. By the way Armando talks about his and Betty's sex life (sweet, tender, intense, vague and undetailed), vs how he talks about his and Marcela's (sensual, sexy, we even see him describing to Mario what Marcela wore) it's rather obvious which one he was "screwing" and which one he was "making love" to.
I might be wrong but I don’t really see this being discussed when we talk about feminism and female rivalry, not online tho. In my vision most women are still behaving and reproducing sexist and misogynistic stereotypes towards other women, and in my opinion this idea of “sorority” is so fake and superficial. watching “yo soy betty la fea” really opens a lot of topics to think about and to discuss, while betty is working on this massive economic project to change the fashion industry to focus on real women with real bodies and the arrival of alejandra zingg (another women deeply in love with armando, but differently from marcela, she respects betty as a woman, as a business woman and you can notice she also disapproves hugo’s disgusting behaviour towards the quartel). two women, betty and alejandra, with different backgrounds, deeply in love with the same men, but with the maturity to understand that they are more than that, they’re more than what they see in the mirror, they’re more than their relationship with armando. I see this happening so frequently in real life, everything in a women’s life is about her body, her face, her “sexual reputation”. I actually forgot what I was going with this but anyways LOL