#of course this could just be a byproduct of chris carter’s weird complex about her

[pookie-mulder]

Something I love about The X-Files is that the show never objectifies Scully. She’s unbelievably gorgeous, of course, and characters in the show definitely find her attractive, but the show itself never sexualizes her or reduces her to simply an object for the audience to ogle at.

She has agency and depth and convictions, but that doesn’t mean she’s not sexy. She is! The difference is that we get to come to that conclusion ourselves rather than the show presenting her as such.

We never get the gratuitous hair flips, slow shots that pan up her body, or impractical cleavage that so many female action heroes are subjected to. Everything that goes into the show — storylines, costumes, cinematography, dialogue, hair/makeup — reinforces the idea that Scully is not created for the male gaze; she is her own woman who makes her own choices about what she looks like and how she presents herself.

If anything, Mulder is more objectified than Scully, which is a refreshing deviation from the norm